Visit #2 with Santa Claus

We have visited Santa a few times this past Christmas Season and Naomi is a big fan until she actually gets on his lap.

A few weeks ago Adam's dad was posing as the jolly old fellow for a city event. We waited in line and Naomi couldn't stop saying "santa" and she was so giggly and happy and even walked up to Santa/(her grandpa).

This is what happened when she got on his lap.....

But it got better when Santa gave her some candy....

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

Thanksgiving in Hawaii

(Sorry up front for the overload of pictures........)

We had the chance to go to Hawaii for this past Thanksgiving. We met up with our brother Ryan and his wife Larissa and our other brother Cory, who are all going to school at BYU Hawaii. (Good excuse for us to go visit, huh?)
It was the longest flight yet for Naomi so we were pretty nervous how she would do but she was awesome! She watched movies and slept alot of the time.

We had the typical Thanksgiving "feast" and just enjoyed our days of full attention to one another. Here is the yummy spread-the favorite dish was Katelyn's yams with candied pecans on top.....yum. I could go for some of those right about now.

Naomi found a new love: the beach. It was the first word to come out of her mouth every morning and we visited often each day. She had so much fun, and we had fun just watching her play in the waves and the sand. The house we stayed at had a small fish pond so Naomi had to feed the fish a few times each day, too. Right next to the fish pond was a small fake turtle and Naomi took that with her everywhere for the first day or so, and she called him "Crush" like the turtle in Nemo. Kids are so smart!

Naomi also kept us entertained with "The Itsy Bitsy Spider". She loves to put on a show-didn't get that from me. =)
HIDE-N-GO-SEEK We took advantage of the pretty scenes and took a family picture! Probably one of the last before we have a family of 4.

OUR BIG NEWS....IT'S A ...........

BOY!!!!! Wednesday afternoon we went to the dr and got some great news! Our baby is a boy! We are so excited and can't wait to hold him. The news made it so much more real that baby #2 is so close!

Of course we would have been ok with having a boy or girl, but this is such a new experience! We are excited to have a little buddy for Adam and a sibling for Naomi, and I can't wait til I see my son! Can't believe those words yet. I'm still in a little bit of shock. At a few different times yesterday Adam and I caught each other staring off wondering what the little guy will be like. We knew what the other was thinking about. It was such a comforting feeling. And we can't imagine loving our kid as much as we love Naomi.

We were so excited yesterday that we had to buy something blue so we got "baby" a blue BYU onesie. He'll be wearing lots of Cougar appearal in the years to come so Adam was excited to have that be the first purchase.

What's going through Adam's mind right now:

What's going through my mind:

(Baby is due April 3rd.)

Phoenix Weekend

Two weekends ago, Adam and I took off for a fun weekend in Phoenix! It was a wonderful time to talk, and laugh, and get to know each other even better than before! We loved having so much concentrated time together, even though at some points we we felt a little odd not changing diapers and fighting a toddler to put her clothes on!
It was so fun to wake up and make whatever plans we wanted for that day. There's alot to do in Phoenix. It's a huge city, but we kept it low-key, mostly because of my request. We found new resturants to try and shopped alot.
Sadly, these are the only pictures I took of the whole weekend! I need to be better at picture taking.

Here we are at lunch one of the days, at least I took one picture of the 2 of us together, right?

One of the malls had a huge arcade, so per Adam's request we spent a few minutes shooting hoops. Yes, I did beat him once. He was having fun trying on the beanies. He stretched them out cause they were so small, or maybe he just has a large head...
We watched Princess Bride right before the trip so this store's name made us laugh.

Nature Walk

Before the cold weather came along, we Chase Girls went up into the American Fork Canyon area and took a hike through nature trails. It was about and hour drive, along a windy road, to reach our destination. When we arrived, we scarffed down our Subway sandwiches, then headed down the trails.

The trails were a couple miles long, and just as rugged as we needed them to be.

Naomi is our outside girl. She would rather be outside than anywhere else in the world.

She had a blast going on piggy-back rides with her aunts, jetting down the paths, and dipping her fingers in the creeks, and she even saw Nemo a few times in the lake.

She's one lucky girl to have all of the love that surrounds her!

Halloween Weekend

Hope everyone had a great Halloween! Here are a few pictures to sum up Naomi's weekend.

NAOMI LOVED SITTING UNDER THE CANDY BOWL

PIRATE AND ELEPHANT FRIENDS

EVER SEEN AN ELEPHANT IN HIGH HEELS? =)

TRICK OR TREATING FOR A FEW SECONDS

HOT CHOCOLATE WITH DADDY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JETT!

ABBIE FOUND THE LEFTOVERS

FUN ON THE TRAMPOLINE

THE LASTEST "DO"

OUR CUTE GIRL

SILLY GIRL

BALLOONS FROM THE P-A-R-T-Y

TRYING TO REACH THE RUNAWAY BALLOON!