Silly Sally

Sledding

Last weekend we went up to the cabin with some friends and took Ainsley sledding for the first time. She LOVED it. It was so fun. We definitely need to get a sled for our house.

Sledding with her buddy Sadie

Some of Ainsley's Favorite People

Grandma Love. Is there anything else like it in the world? Here are my sweet girls... one of them is really asleep... the other just thought it would be funny to pretend to be sleeping. :)

Playing at the water works at the discovery gateway.

Ainsley has recently said her first name, not Mama or Dada or Grandpa.. but the first real name, and it is that of Hallee Jenkins, Kirty's little girl. They love each other, it's really cute. And now Ains will cry out 'Hallee!!!' and dance around when she sees her, or cry it sadly when she's leaving. It's really the most pitiful thing to watch the tears forming in her eyes, her arms stretching out, yelling 'Hallee...'

Ains was the only non-4 year old invited to Hallee's birthday party last week.

She quite enjoyed the cupcakes

but her favorite part was when all the pretty princess got to dance.

A Vegas Christmas

Christmas Eve all of Tom's sibs came over and spent the night at his parents house. I don't know why, but my favorite part of Christmas is everyone under one roof. It was fun for Ainsley to have her cousins there.
We watched the Polar Express and Ainsley was entranced.. she hardly looked away. She's also enjoyed Rudolf and some other Christmas classics this year. It's so fun to see her starting to understand and get into the spirit of things. I can only imagine how fun next year will be!

Ainsley didn't sleep well that night. It could've been thoughts of Santa coming.. but I think it was more likely the fact that all the people under one roof means babies sleep in the same room as their parents, lol. She woke up for about a 2 hour period in the middle of the night and then we got her up about 2 hours before her normal wake time to open presents, so she was one zonked out tired girl.. in case you are wondering where all the estatic smiles are in the pictures below.. they are still in bed, lol.

Ains is getting really good at ripping wrapping paper off. :)

Hangin' with the cousins. Ella and Jake are both less than a year older than Ains and they will all probably be the same year in school, so I always think of these cousins as her peeps. :)

yep.. there's my tired girl.. walking around with her pot.
She got a set of pots and pans to go with a kitchen we had to leave at home
(that box was SO not making it on the plane with us, lol). She's a big fan of things with lids

Grandma got Ains a cute little doll house!
Ains worked up a pretty good smile for that one,
and of course, the clapping. Ains is big on clapping.
(Please disregard the early morning bed head on me, lol)

Ella got a cute little tricycle..
and Ains jumped on it as soon as she turned her back!
She wants one really bad.. but as you may be able to tell in this picture,
her feet do not yet reach the peddles..

Merry Christmas to All, and to All.. There's your nose!

It was a fun day, I wish both of us had gotten more sleep,
but I am so happy to spend the holidays with family, especially my sweet lil Ains...

and my wonderful Tommy. LOVE YOU! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Pre-Christmas Fun

My playgroup did a gift exchange with all the kids. It was really cute, Tatum read a special night before christmas and everytime she said 'right' or 'left' that's the direction they passed the presents. I think the older kids liked it a lot, but Ainsley did not understand why we kept giving her a present and then taking it away again.

We had so much snow the week before Christmas! Ains LOVED it!

A couple days before Christmas we went downtown to see the lights on Temple Square. We took trax, Ains and Tom are big Train fans, and I love not having to drive in holiday traffic.

We went with Ains best lil buddy Brooklyn and her parents, Matt and Kira. Sadly, after this picture my camera died. It was a really cold, but really fun night.