So the most exciting thing that happened in January was Emma's baptism. She looked beautiful, as always. Grandparents came in from Utah and California and Christina came down from the Twin Cities.
I wish I got more pictures, but my camera died right after this one was taken. I scrounged up the one below in her "pretty" dress, but thank goodness my friend Shannon took tons of pictures with her fancy new camera. Now I just need to find the CD she gave me...
In January we also had some hoarfrost, so I had to take some pictures. It was breathtaking!
This was one of the trees on the way to Mapleton. I remember we went to breakfast at ToKen BBQ (owned by our friends Tony & Lori) and the drive down was a winter wonderland!
This is the crab tree right outside the kitchen window. It's my favorite tree because it's gorgeous all year round (it's actually in the neighbors yard.) In the spring it blooms bright pink, the summer is leafy with red berries, when the leaves fall the berries turn orange and this is what it looks like in the winter.
we've procrastinated a lot of christmas stuff this year (mainly because carrie needed to finish finals before she could even think about christmas chaos!) we finally went yesterday to visit santa so the kids could tell him what they want. here's the list: