Dinner at Ruth's Chris in Park City

We decided to treat ourselves to a nice dinner in Park City with our good friends, the Goddard's and the Beck's.  I like doing stuff with Brette (Goddard) because she always brings her camera and takes lots of pictures, then I just steal them from her blog and viola...I have something to blog about. :)  This was a nice kick-off to the Christmas season.  Let the craziness begin!!!

Sweeping Booty

Before Daniel left for work one day, he joked with Nora Jane about sleeping in the bathtub.  Well later that day, when I was doing my makeup, and she was playing in the bathroom, she remembered what he had said, and asked me to go get a pillow for her.  She then pretended to be asleep so I could take her picture.

(Sweeping Booty, is just how she says Sleeping Beauty)

Go Utes!!

We had season tickets to the Utah games this year, and my dear husband was kind enough to take me to several games.  It was so fun!!!  He even took me to the big Utah BYU game which was freeeezing but totally worth it cause we won!!!

Here we are with Daniel's siblings Annalisa and her husband Chris, Amy and Stuart.

Thanksgiving Family Picture

This year for Thanksgiving we went up to Daniel's Aunt and Uncle's cabin and stayed the night.  It was soooo beautiful and fun to just be with family and help set things up for Thanksgiving.  I decided to do an impromptu family photo shoot.  Okay, I'll confess I had these clothes laid out for at least a week waiting to take some family pictures, and so it was easy to pack them real quick to wear on Thanksgiving.

To Nora Jane

As many of you know, my Nora Jane was named after my Great Grandma, Nora Jane Krous. I came across the name, before Daniel and I were even thinking of kids, when I was curious as to where my Mom got the middle name Nora. I went to the familysearch.org website and went through my family tree, until I found Nora Jane Krous (McNabb). She is my mom's paternal Grandma. I immediately knew I wanted to use this name for a little girl, and came home from work to tell Daniel about it. I was excited when his response was, "We should name our little girl that".

Nora Jane (Krous) McNabb
(My Great Grandma)

Billie (McNabb) Miller, Burl McNabb (my Grandpa), Nora Jane (Krous) McNabb,
3 other McNabb Children

Fast forward to August of 2008. My Nora Jane was just 4 months old, and we traveled up to Inkom, Idaho, to my Uncle John's farm for our annual McNabb Family Reunion. My Mom's Aunt Bille (the last living one of my grandpa's siblings) was at the reunion. She had heard what I had named our baby girl, and was looking forward to meeting her. While she was holding Nora Jane, she relayed the story to me and my Mom about when she was pregnant with her first child. She had told her mom (Nora Jane Krous McNabb) that if it was a girl, she planned to name her Nora Jane. So my great-grandma, mailed her a card, "To Nora Jane" with $5.00 in it. Well for whatever reason, Billie didn't end up naming her daughter that, and ended up not having any more girls, to be able to use the name. However, she had kept the card all those years.

My Mother suggested that she should send it to me, to give to this Nora Jane.

Nora Jane Pace, Aunt Billie (McNabb) Miller
August 2008

Just this week, My Mom's sister (Martha Reddish) called to drop by my house. She had just been visiting her children in California, and stopped to visit Aunt Billie. Billie gave her this card, with $20 in it and asked her to give it to me.

Now I will have this sweet card to give to my Nora Jane, that was originally from my great-grandma, who she's named after.

I am so grateful my Aunt Billie, kept it all this years...and was so kind to pass it on to me.

Halloween

Our own little Iron Man and Lady Bug!

Halloween Preschool Program

This is the one picture I have from Tucker's program.  Its so hard to get pictures with all those people crammed into the room...and its more fun to just watch and enjoy.  Tucker's to the left of the Witch, and the cute girl in the strawberry hat two away from him is Naomi.  He came home a couple of weeks before this and told me all about how he really likes this cute girl named Naomi in his class, and that he thinks he has a crush on her, and he might even like to live with her. :)

It's a BOY!

Soccer

So, after taking a season off, Tucker decided he'd like to play soccer again, so we signed him up. On the day of his first game, we went to the soccer store to buy him cleats. While at the store, Nora Jane found everything pink. Then Tucker said he needed to call Dad's friend (Dan) Schovaers and tell him about his game that night. He had remembered from a year and a half before, that Schovaers game to his game. Although we don't see much of him anymore, I let Tucker call him, just to see if he'd come. Schovaers did show up and Tucker was thrilled. The game started and Tucker was on fire...complete opposite of our last experience with him and soccer. He stole the ball and dribbled it all the way to the other end of the field for a goal not once...but twice! We were so proud of our little man! But I think even better than the goals was the celebration dances he did out on the field after scoring the goals. He had all the parents on both sides of the field just rolling. The second picture is his "Kick Buttowski" pose, which he also did after scoring a goal.


Tucker ended his season, playing in 5 of the 8 games (due to St. George trips) and scored a total of 6 goals!!  So proud of you Tucker Man!

Tucker's first day of Preschool

Tucker has been so looking forward to preschool, although sad that he wouldn't have Miss Celeste again. The best part has been our fun carpool. There are three other kids on our street that we carpool with, and they have been a blast...seriously the kids all get along so well and it is such a party in the car on the way to and from school.