Off to Colorado for a Wedding!

We went on a road trip to Colorado the weekend before Christmas for my cousins wedding! It was a lot of fun! M.J. did awesome, he was a lot better than I expected him to be!  We left early Friday morning, and came back Early Sunday morning.  It was a whirlwind of a trip, but it was so much fun!

Aunt H and M.J. at a gas station!

Possible Christmas Gifts found!

Thought of Aunt A when we saw the kitties!

 We went to the Archer house for a pizza party Friday night, it was so much fun seeing all of the cousins again, although we were missing quite a few who couldn't make the trip.  It was also fun seeing all the new baby cousins (I'm not sure what you really call your cousin's children oh well) but M.J. had so much fun, and my cousin's cute little boy even came up and shook his hand!  The next day we got up and went to the temple to see the couple wed.  It was awesome, that was the first time sense L and I got married that I was able to attend another wedding! I loved it, it defiantly brought tears to my eyes!


The P. Archer Fam!



My cousin and his cute little girl!

After the temple, we had a delicious lunch, at this Italian restaurant.  It was so good, especially the fried eggplant! Yummy, it was delicious.

Lunch!

Unfortunately I did not get a lot of pictures at the reception because Little M.J. had a big freak out.  I think he was tired and had know idea where he was, so he was not a very happy camper.  But from what I saw the reception hall was beautiful, I guess it use to be John Elways house.  (I have know idea if that is correct spelling or not). 

Grandma and M.J.

The beautiful bride!

This was our beautiful view coming back to Salt Lake, gotta love that inversion!

Forgive me the rest of the pictures are completely out of order, but I have tried so so so hard to move them up and I just can't, so I have given up and let them stay where they want to be.   

M.J. and me and the Temple

Aunt H at the Temple!

M.J. and Aunt H getting ready to head on home!

We were so excited to come home to L and K! We had missed them so much!

We had so much fun at the wedding, we were sad that L couldn't make it but he was out selling that weekend!  I was so grateful that Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt H and Aunt K were all there though because I could not have made it on my own with M.J.  But we all had a lot of fun, and I was so grateful to be invited to spend that time with a lot of family that we don't get to see very often!

Pinnacle Christmas Party!

This holiday season L, M.J. and I had a chance to attend a holiday party hosted by L's work Pinnacle.  It was an ugly sweater, and unfortunately we didn't have any ugly Christmas Sweaters.  We tried looking at the D.I., but everyone must have had an ugly sweater party that night because they were all out, so I thought it would be fun to make some.  Unfortunately it took me all day just to make L's so he was the lucky one that got to wear the ugly sweater!  This holiday season L, M.J. and I had a chance to attend a holiday party hosted by L's work Pinnacle.  It was an ugly sweater, and unfortunately we didn't have any ugly Christmas Sweaters.  We tried looking at the D.I., but everyone must have had an ugly sweater party that night because they were all out, so I thought it would be fun to make some.  Unfortunately it took me all day just to make L's so he was the lucky one that got to wear the ugly sweater!  

L's Friends!

L's manager posing for the Camera!

Cute M.J. and  I

You can only see a little bit of L's ugly sweater here! Unfortunately I didn't get a full picture of it!:(

We played Yankee Swap, which was pretty fun, we got some blocks that Spell L.O.V.E., and we also played Mafia.  Overall, it was a pretty fun Christmas Party!

M.J. meets Santa!

Tonight M.J., Grandma M, and Aunt C and I went down to the Gingerbread house festival at the Gateway. Aunt H was volunteering and that is how we heard about it. It was pretty amazing I had no idea that this even exsisted and the Gingerbread houses were amazing! They also had a Santa there, which was awesome sense I haven't taken M.J. to see Santa yet. M.J. had no idea what was going on, but he will figure it out for next year I think!

We couldn't get him to smile we tried so hard!

 

I wanted to show how big the houses were, it was crazy! Also, this was M.J.'s favorite he wants his daddy to buy a house just like this for us to live in!

He was super entertained.... with his sleeve the whole time!

Had to make a quick stop at the North Pole, and ride the polar bears!

The details were just crazy good, it definatly got me in the mood to try my hand at gingerbread house making!

First Movie!

So L is out of town for the week for work, and M.J. and I are by our lonesome so we decided to meet Grandma M down at the Clark Planetarium to see a movie about Space because she was taking her MESA students on a field trip there.  I wasn't to worried about M.J., but it turns out I should have been.  He started bawling 30 seconds into the first preview.  I was not expecting that, so we will probably have to wait a while before we try that again! We did get a cute picture of M.J. trying to wear the 3-D glasses though!

3 months old!

Our little M.J. is three months old now! I can not believe how fast these three months have gone, but he is getting so so so big!  I weighed him on my parents scale so I don't know how accurate it is but it said 16.5lbs!  Some milestones he is hitting are:

• Almost sitting by himself!
• Laughing and giggling (so so so cute)
• Sometimes he sleeps through the night but most of the time not :(
• Loves to stand up!
• Wearing size 6 month clothing
• He is starting to grasp toys and move them around
• Is trying so so so hard to crawl and roll over but still hasn't quite mastered either

Here are a few pictures of M.J. at 3 Months!

Listen to music with his Daddy!

Just hanging out!

Sitting all by himself!

Loves his football Jammies!

Getting so chubby I love his little arms!

Daddy's Little Gangster!

Wasatch Hurricane!

On December 1st, we experienced the Wasatch Hurricane! It was pretty crazy windy, and the damage it did was crazy! We lost power for like 16 hours, which was not very fun, I don't know how people did it without electricity, I guess they didn't know what they were missing, but man it is hard having no lights especially with every bathroom in the house not having a window in it. But it was quite the experience! I took some pictures of the cemetary that we live around the block from because the wind destroyed so many beautiful trees there, and I didn't know if I would ever see anything like that again. They said that the wind got up to 102 mph, which is the same strength as a size 2 hurricane.

We did have the tramp collapse.... Sad day!

Turkey, Turkey, Turkey!

We had such an awesome Thanksgiving! Especially because Aunt A came into town to help celebrate! We missed Uncle D, but unfortunatly he had to work all day on Black Friday so he couldn't make it... we were super bummed.  We started the day out with an awesome work out at GPP Fitness, which was so much fun, but super hard!  But, it made me feel better for eating like a piggy the rest of the day! LoL!

After that we cooked, ate, watched Football and played Traiters of Iran (also known as settlers of catan) and Ticket to Ride both are super fun awesome games! Favorite thing of the day was this post Aunt A put on facebook.....

Gotta love Thanksgiving at the McDonald residence...

Scott: You know, humans are a lot easier to "carve" than turkeys. We are less boney.

Amy: Good to know, Dad

Scott: Humans don't smell as good as turkey though.

 
 
Here are some other pictures from the day....

M.J. was very hungry!

L and M.J.

Sisters!

Grammy!

Grandpa!

Love him!