Christmas Break & Mortensen Wedding

Somehow I forgot to blog on Christmas and all that happened between Jillians Birthday (Dec 1st) and  our cruise in March.  Whoops.  That's basketball season at its finest - completely time consuming and so much fun! 

This past winter we got a TON of snow.  Literally. Tons.

I felt like every night Lance was home he got called out at 2-3 am to plow. 

The crazy amount of snow was awesome for neighborhood kids to sled at our neighborhood hill (which is pretty epic if I do say so myself).  So we lucked out on a good snow storm the week of Christmas and went as a family to enjoy the sun & snow.

Uncle Landon

Aunt Nicole 

Uncle Jared

 With such a large/extended family we have several Christmas events.  We celebrated Christmas with Lance's mom a few days prior.  It was so cute to see the excitement in Bennett and Hudson as they saw the HUGE mound of presents (almost all for them).

 On Christmas morning I somehow lucked out and got canceled from work WOOHOO!!!! We spent the morning with our kids opening a few gifts and then headed up north to Lance's Dads house.   Of all the toys the kids got for Christmas this spinning/singing top took 1st place.  All three of them were captivated by it.

January we headed to Colorado for Chris and Lindsey's wedding.  Bennett got his first professional haircut because he was going to be the ring bearer.
 
 Traveling with kids is... well rough.  They did pretty well, but Jillian wasn't loving the idea of having to sit on my lap the entire time.  Once we landed we drove 2 1/2 hours to the city where the reception was being held.  Surprisingly there wasn't nearly as much snow in Colorado as we had in Salt Lake, but it was sure cold.  Bennett got all dressed and seemed like he would do fabulous as the ring bearer.  Chris had them wait another 5 minutes and in that 5 minutes Bennett got all figety and wouldn't wear his cute sign, and ended up walking down the aisle sobbing and yelling "MOMMY DADDY!!"
Everyone laughed and thought it was cute... as least thats what they said.