The New Year

The December 17th we celebrated Grandma Dewey's 80th birthday!

We celebrated the different decades of Grandma's life by discussing what happened in the era then dancing (with dance cards- awesome!) to a popular song... Lexie loved the dancing part.

Steven and Candace dancing together.

Took lots of family pictures- this ones a favorite!

Grandma's party was a blast and I took lots of notes so I can spring a massive bash for my mother when her times comes. :D

Speaking of mother's- we (and many other supportive family and friends- thank you!) attended the debut of "Could I Have Been There?" A Christmas Pageant that my mother wrote the script and 24 original songs for- and it was amazing! So proud of her and her many accomplishments.

Sisters at a live nativity.

Christmas Eve- Sinter Klaus (the Dutch Santa) came for a visit!

Lexie was thrilled to have Santa in our house and when he called her name to give her a gift (Pj's) she nearly dropped to the ground in excitement to get to him fast enough.

The precious moment of the night was when Santa was leaving Lexie waved and blew him kisses out the door then (without being prompted) said, "Thank you ho-ho."

Christmas morning- we went to church- wonderful, then when we got home took a million picture before we could open any presents. I know I'm an "adult" but it was torture! ha ha I just couldn't wait till Lexie opened her presents.

We all were spoiled in the gift department, and truly we feel so blessed to be so loved. It was a wonderful, wonderful time together this Christmas season.

Jazzy MADE Savannah and Lexie matching owls hats- sooo cool!

The week after Christmas, we played hard and lots- in between spells of the flu- UGH

Went to Temple Square as a family...

Went sledding lots- a favorite picture of mom and Lippy sledding.

Overall, it was a wonderful trip, glad to be with my family, but also glad to be home. :D

And now- for the fun news...

Today at our 15 week appointment we listened to our sweet baby's heartbeat.

Since all- and I mean ALL of my girlfriends who are due around the same time as me know what they're having (girls) and we all know the sex of the babies seem to go in waves- I'm very anxious for our ultra sound.

And so- Jan 31st is the appointment- and I'm not sure I can wait that long!

Okay, I can, and will- but phew!!

Shane jokes that he hopes his boy's swim team wins over the girls swimming team- but we'll see what happens. The Chinese calendar says we're having a boy (and you never argue with the Chinese)- but the thought of growing a boy??!!

We'll see if we're lucky enough to have another little girl that I can buy matching dresses and accessories with (soooo fun!) OR if we're extra luck enough that the heavens smiled down on the Widmer side of the family and gave us a boy! :D

...we'll see how this goes down!