As many of you know, I teach ballet and on Tuesday mornings Elanor gets to come with me to ballet and she is in my "Mommy and Me" class. She loves it! She is learning fairly fast and can do a decent plie and tendu and spins, jumps, and walks on demi-pointe (toes) really well. If she was not into dancing I would not make her do the class, but she loves it and that makes me so happy. Almost every night after dinner, the three of us go into the living room, turn on some music and dance. Elanor requests to dance multiple times a day, but she loves dancing after dinner best, since she gets to dance with her dad.
Moving so fast that they are a blur!
Hugs.
Here are a few videos of Elanor dancing:
She is such a fun girl and we love dancing with her.
I am back. I have actually been back for a week and a half now, but was horribly sick and was busy with ballet, unpacking, and motherhood in general. We have quite a bit of snow here, but it is old snow, since it has not snowed for over a week. However, it is still quite lovely. We have taken Elanor sledding and skiing in the snow, which was quite fun! She loves going fast and is a bit of a daredevil.
I have also been enjoying my new camera and the quality is sooo much better than my old one. Here are some recent completely unedited pictures:
On a little walk, all bundled up for the 20 degree weather!
Elanor loves to eat snow!
Yes, we did go to the park...and yes, it was 20 degrees outside, but we needed to get out! The only thing we could do at the park was swing, since everything else was covered in snow. Elanor loved it and would have happily swung for way too long, but since it was so chilly I made her get out and then we raced each other in the parking lot to warm up before heading home.
You know, just chillin' and sucking on an icicle...
Watching the geese take flight after some boys ran after them so they could sled down the hill.
Getting ready to sled down one of the many hills at Sugarhouse Park.
I don't mind the cold or the snow, so I have been loving winter! I just hope we get some fresh snow soon---Tyler and I would like to go up and ski sometime soon. Anyone want to babysit?
I will be a better blogger and there will be some sort of recipe up this week!
We have been having a lovely time in Oregon with family. Elanor and I will be staying here longer than originally planned. My mom is directing the play Romeo and Juliet and I really want to see it, plus I choreographed a dance for it and my little brother is playing Romeo (his first leading role, and also first serious role). Oh, and my dear sister, who could not be with us for Christmas, is flying in to see it and we really want to see Jess. The show is January 11-12 and then the following weekend. So, Elanor and I are staying here until the 12th and Tyler is flying back to Utah to work and then will fly back to Oregon to see the play and then we will all drive back to Utah. It was sort of a genius plan, enabling us all to see the play, Tyler does not have to miss more work, and we only have to pay for two flights and no one has to drive for 11 hours by themselves. Yes, yes, and yes.Did anyone really need me to type all of that? Probably not, but I just spent the last 15 minutes on it, so it is staying.
We had a wonderful Christmas! Tyler and I were so excited for Christmas this year because Elanor understood a lot of what was happening. I was so excited to see her happy little face on Christmas morning that I could hardly sleep! Christmas is so fun when children are involved!
We had Christmas Eve with my family and Christmas day with Tyler's family, as usual. I do not have any of my Christmas Eve pictures because I got a new camera and Tyler accidentally took the SIM card home with him, so I only have the pictures I have taken since I opened my new camera. I never take as many pictures as I would like to on Christmas morning, mostly because I am busy enjoying Christmas.
I do have a few videos from Christmas Eve and Christmas morning for anyone who cares:
Elanor dancing to the Nutcracker on Christmas Eve--it is a tradition!
Waiting to go downstairs to see what Santa brought her.
Santa's gifts
Here are some pictures from Christmas Day:
{At my parents house early Christmas morning}
Elanor in her Christmas pjs.
{At Tyler's mom's house--Christmas Day}
A rainy Christmas
Elanor with her Rapunzel doll (from Santa).
Blurry, but cute.
Elanor helping her Mema open presents.
A panorama, just for fun of the Christmas morning mess.
Tyler with his brother, Trevor, opening presents.
Elanor coloring with her cousin, Casen.
We walked over to the "Christmas House" on Christmas night, which is just across the street from Tyler's mom's house. They have quite an elaborate display and you can walk or drive through it all.
We had a really wonderful Christmas. It was so lovely to be with our families. We are so grateful for all of our blessings and for this time of the year which reminds us of our Savior and everything he as done for us all.
