This week was a very busy week for us with Christmas in Idaho and a family wedding on Saturday! Prepare for a good read about all the fun things we did this week.
Visiting Idaho
It feels weird to say that since we've lived in Idaho for the past 3 years and now we just are visiting there. We traveled up Christmas Eve and Claire enjoyed spending time with Grandpa and Grandma Bell, Uncle Steven, and the Harper cousins. We made graham cracker houses, set up the surprise gift for Grandpa Bell (a new TV mounted to the wall), and then went to the Firehouse for a dinner with everyone who was working that night. The next morning when Grandpa Bell came home from work, we ate a nice big breakfast and opened the presents together with Aunt Julie and Uncle Kaden who came to spend the day with us. There was a new TV to connect and figure out, games to play, and more presents to open when the Harper family came back to visit again! Then we drove back home to our own quite apartment and said a prayer of thanks that the weather wasn't very bad.
Visiting Utah
Now that we live here, this section is labeled this because the Cox grandparents came down to visit us in Utah! We were able to see them for a yummy Thai dinner on Wednesday night, then most of the day Thursday we spent time playing games and opening more presents. Friday I went to the Desert Star Playhouse with everyone while Chris was working and Claire was being babysat for her first official time!! Then, of course, the wedding of my brother to my new sister-in-law was on Saturday which deserves it's own section. My older brothers, Charles and Ammon, came to Utah for the wedding too and it was the most family we've had together in one place in a long time, just missing Charles' sweet girls.
Claire
She learned how fun it was to open gifts over the last week because of the two times she got to celebrate with grandparents. She laughs and looks for approval every time she rips the paper and is sometimes interested in the things that were inside it. She got a new outfit and PJs that will hopefully fit her very soon since they are for a normal 18 month old child and she is just behind the normal growth. She got her first pair of snow boots just in time for it to snow more and loved wearing them all of Christmas day both inside and outside. The new toys cluttering our living room is a shopping cart, a princess castle, markers, and dad's new toy drone that Claire thinks is unnatural and needs to be put down.
Wedding
My brother, Andrew, and his new wife and my new sister, Katelin, were sealed in the Ogden Utah temple yesterday and are so cute together already. They had a reception the same night where we celebrated their casual way of life by dancing, drinking hot chocolate, and socializing in the comfort of jeans. Claire was fascinated by the DJ lights and watched them instead of danced most of the time, but was happy to see so many relatives who were happy to see her. I had fond memories of the temple and loved being back in the area since we were married there only 3 years ago. The temple was beautiful and the sealer did a great job of sharing the happiness that comes from a new family starting in eternity.
It feels weird to say that since we've lived in Idaho for the past 3 years and now we just are visiting there. We traveled up Christmas Eve and Claire enjoyed spending time with Grandpa and Grandma Bell, Uncle Steven, and the Harper cousins. We made graham cracker houses, set up the surprise gift for Grandpa Bell (a new TV mounted to the wall), and then went to the Firehouse for a dinner with everyone who was working that night. The next morning when Grandpa Bell came home from work, we ate a nice big breakfast and opened the presents together with Aunt Julie and Uncle Kaden who came to spend the day with us. There was a new TV to connect and figure out, games to play, and more presents to open when the Harper family came back to visit again! Then we drove back home to our own quite apartment and said a prayer of thanks that the weather wasn't very bad.
Now that we live here, this section is labeled this because the Cox grandparents came down to visit us in Utah! We were able to see them for a yummy Thai dinner on Wednesday night, then most of the day Thursday we spent time playing games and opening more presents. Friday I went to the Desert Star Playhouse with everyone while Chris was working and Claire was being babysat for her first official time!! Then, of course, the wedding of my brother to my new sister-in-law was on Saturday which deserves it's own section. My older brothers, Charles and Ammon, came to Utah for the wedding too and it was the most family we've had together in one place in a long time, just missing Charles' sweet girls.
She learned how fun it was to open gifts over the last week because of the two times she got to celebrate with grandparents. She laughs and looks for approval every time she rips the paper and is sometimes interested in the things that were inside it. She got a new outfit and PJs that will hopefully fit her very soon since they are for a normal 18 month old child and she is just behind the normal growth. She got her first pair of snow boots just in time for it to snow more and loved wearing them all of Christmas day both inside and outside. The new toys cluttering our living room is a shopping cart, a princess castle, markers, and dad's new toy drone that Claire thinks is unnatural and needs to be put down.
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