When the cats away, the mice have a BLAST in South Carolina!

Here is what Dan, Jake, and Tess did while Abby and I were in Utah:

On their way down to South Carolina they stopped in North Carolina to see Blake and Melissa and our cute new nephew! Jake and Tess loved the balloon animals Uncle Blake made them.

Leaving the toys behind to follow Uncle Harold

Arriving back at Grandma Greats in style!

The Columbia Zoo and Botanical Garden

The Children's Museum with Grandma

Sweet Grandma Great

Grandma Riley Love'n

Jake and Tess faces say it all!

Blue Ridge Parkway on the way home

What would a trip with Daddy be without stopping at a cave!

Gift shop fun...

What a ham!

STUD!!

Jake got his first suit...check out my stud-muffin!!! (Grandma's eat your hearts out!)

Becky and Abby go to Utah...

I spent TEN fabulous days with Abby and my family in Utah. Dan took off work to be with Jake and Tess while I introduced our 6 month old chub to all my family. Dan and the kids headed down to South Carolina and had a blast together (he will be blogging about their trip later). I thoroughly enjoyed taking naps during the day, watching movies, getting my hair cut, eating lots and lots and LOTS of yummy food, but best of all spending time with my family! Here is a brief overview of what we did....

Watched two BYU basketball games with Mom and Dad.

(Dad is listening to the radio while watching and listening to the T.V.)

Steve and Abby

Mom and I spent lots of time talking and enjoying Abby together. One of the benefits of my parents serving a mission at the MTC is attending devotionals given by general authorities! I was also there for Mission Conference, at which my parent both did a great job speaking in front of hundreds of missionaries. I also joined mom for some early morning kick-boxing with the Sister's and an "Enhancement" class.

I love this picture of my beautiful mom...helping to dress Abby.

Mom and Lizzie playing with Abby. Lizzie is always busy serving others and manages to stay up-beat and happy no matter what life is throwing at her.

One of the highlights of the trip was visiting Aimee's kindergarten class. My sister is a creative, enthusiastic teacher, and one of the most selfless people I know. She is inspiring!

Abby rolling around the comfy reading area...I loved the pillows the kids help to make!

Abby and I thoroughly enjoyed spending time with Emily, Ben and my cute nieces and nephews. Emily is expecting their 5th! Way to go Em!! I enjoyed just relaxing at her home and talking about being moms and wives! Everyone needs a sister like Emily!

Love that grin Dean!!

Evan, Abby, and Bryn

This is who Abby was grinning at...

Dean, Evan, and Ella after a sleepover at Grandma's!

Daddy daughter date at the Brick Oven

This August Dan and I will be hiking Mt.Timpanogos before our Breinholt reunion so I have just started to use the treadmill Dan gave me LAST Christmas. So, I agreed to do the REX LEE RUN with some of my family.

Before the race: Aimee, Shannon (Aimee's roommate), Steve, Mom, Seth Foster, Evan and Me

Right after the cannon fired. ( I wish I could workout with Aimee and Steve everyday, they definitely know how to PUMP you up!)

Along the route we had to stop and take a picture with Cosmo

After the race we headed back to have a yummy breakfast. My favorite-- "Rollie-Ups" with raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, and whipping cream ( Norwegian Pancakes).

I love how everyone is grinning at Abby in this picture. How could you not??

Beautiful Stephanie and Abby

I love dance! I love watching others dance with my sisters. We had a great time at Dance Sport making up our own criteria to judge the ballroom dancing. Thanks mom for thinking of this and buying the tickets!! (For some reason I don't have a picture with Aimee...but she was sitting right next to me making me laugh!!)

Another highlight of the trip was visiting Grandma and Grandpa. I am so grateful for both of them and think about them often!

This trip went by too fast, as all do. I am so blessed to have such a great family. I miss them tremendously! See you in AUGUST!

6 Months Old!

Abigail is SIX months old now, my how time flies! At her doctors visit we found out that our "chubs" is in the 95th percentile, weighing in at 18.5lbs and 27inches long. She loves to eat! She is finally rolling both ways now and is almost sitting on her own. She loves to maul my face and pull my hair or earrings. This week the doctor told me she has enough "meat" on her to sleep through the night...

Love my Abigail (and her wide-eyed stare).

Jake was the spotlight in primary today. I asked Dan to do it, since I am always in front of the kids, and he did a great job. He talked about how Jake loves to wear his Spiderman superhero costume. He then told how Jake is a superhero to all of us. He is Tess's best friend, has a special connection with Abby and can always put a smile on her face, and such a big help to me with chores around the house. Jake was beaming. We love our little superhero!

"Snowmageddon"

You can thank President Obama for the title of this blog. Dan thought he was referring to the tactics used to push healthcare reform but he was actually talking about the storm on saturday....It snowed a record breaking 30 inches in 2 days! It reminds me of my time in Rochester, NY. We have had a blast playing in the snow and being together as a family for FOUR whole days!! Church was cancelled, which meant no teaching for Dan and I so our weekend was truly stress free and a lot of fun.

The kids and Dan jumped off of our ladder into the snow while it was still falling. (Can you see Dan's car in the background?)

We ventured three doors down on Saturday for a birthday party. (Dan is in the process of plowing the way for us in this picture.) It was really nice to spend some time with neighbors and the kids loved the ice cream cake (a first for them).

When Dan heard about the snow storm that was coming he pulled out the ruler and measured Tess to show how much it was going to snow, all the way up to her forehead! That night Jake said the sweetest most concerned prayer for Tess. He prayed that she would be safe and able to "breath" when the snow was up to her forehead.

Jacob LOVES the snow. He spent FOUR hours out in it yesterday! The cold doesn't phase him a bit, pure HEAVEN!

Dan spent FIVE hours out shoveling snow with neighbors and the kids. Check out his civic!

We made lots of yummy food, played games, had our own church meeting, and have had a fabulous time together! Abigail has been an absolute JOY the last couple of days. I let her cry it out this last weekend and now I think some real sleep might just be headed my way, more than 2 hours at a time! Another foot of snow is headed our way tomorrow! I really wish I had bought the kids snow boots this year. (Dan went out to buy some for them before the snow storm hit but according to the sales associate, the winter season was over. We've done it the southern way, bread bags for water proofing and socks for warmth! We're southern, you know!)

As a side note- we just heard that it may snow another 10-20 inches tommorow. If it does that will be over 57 inches of snow in one week (it snowed 7 inches last tuesday night). WOW!!! Dan has been off since friday !!