Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Christmas! In St. George! without Dal:(

We missed Dallin extra on Christmas, but we still had a great holiday with the Mitchells in St. George. We did a nativity, ate yummy food, and of course listened to grandpa Bud read his german poem. The kids asked for scooters from Santa and it has been fun to watch them cruise around. Dallin sent me a cool wooden box with a nice letter that made me cry in front of everyone. I was a little emotional that day but the kids had a great Christmas. One more holiday closer to having Dallin back.


















Friday, December 22, 2017

Christmas Festivities 2018


We had such a lovely Christmas season in Utah (with missing Dallin of course). Calvin got back into his groove and wasn't so dramatic about Dal being gone and we LOVED THE SNOW. We loved all of the Christmas things. oh and the snow! Ha, we haven't lived by snow in 7 years so we were giddy about it all winter.

We also found out the gender of our little baby in December! My mom + Calvin came with me to the ultrasound. We all closed our eyes during the gender part, then the ultrasound lady texted Dallin. We decided to have Dallin reveal the gender to us via FaceTime that weekend. It ended up being a blackout internet day in Afghanistan so I was a little stressed but he ended up getting it. He filled a medical glove up with little pink paper and then popped it while my whole family was over at Max and Steph's. Another little boy for our family!

Another super exciting thing that happened in December is that Dallin matched! No more match ever again. The few days leading up to the day I was a basket case (understatement), but we were so excited and I am proud of him. Texas, here we come.
Decorating the tree

That time that I accidentally made this Christmas card for my mom to send out "from the Mitchell family"

Festival of trees



Elf on the shelf was a huge deal this year 


Making gingerbread houses sent by my cute friend Alice

Calvin's preschool Christmas program

Seeing a play at Desert Star
"Fake Christas" with the Outsens since we will be in St. George for Christmas 
Extended Outsen family Christmas party 

Seeing Santa at the old folk's home
The tree of life with Bryan's nephews
Snowball fight!! 

Rodizzio Grill date with my parents to celebrate the match
For reals I love snow






Gender reveal!!

Thursday, November 30, 2017

INovember

The whole fall season went by really quickly. In November we spent so much time with family and friends. We love our adventures other places, but nothing beats family time. The kids loved getting to spend so much time with my parents. Calvin had a really rough first few weeks without Dal, but seemed to be used to it after about a month or so. 

We have lived in a few places that don't have fall so I appreciate it even more. The best weather! Calvin started a ninja warrior class once a week that is the highlight of his whole week. I threw up a lot but this was still my best pregnancy. 

We spent Thanksgiving with my family and it was delicioussss. We launched rockets in the morning + went to a movie after our feast. As always we missed Dallin.

Before primary program picture