New Year's Eve -- Sledding

In my attempt to be a fun mom, and pass the time on New Year's Eve, I took the kids sledding.  I was a little sore later that evening, but we all had fun!

Later that night we watched "How to Train Your Dragon" with Daniel, who hadn't seen it yet, and it was so fun to all sit on the couch together eating popcorn and watching the movie.  Then we put the kids to bed, and barely made it to Midnight.

Happy New Year!

Grandma and Grandpa Paces Christmas Card Photo Shoot

Grandma and Grandpa Pace decided to do a Christmas card picture with just their grandkids this year.  Here's a little sampling from the photo shoot.

Preschool Christmas Program

Here's the one picture I got of Tucker at his Christmas Program this year.  Poor kid couldn't ever see me, and was searching the crowd in between every song trying to find me.  Toward the end of the program, I overheard two moms in front of me talking, and I kept hearing "Tucker".  Well after my friend that was in front of them, turned around to tell me she got lots of pictures of Tucker for me, one of these other moms turned around and asked if I was Tucker's mom.  Apparently their two daughters talk about Tucker everyday when they get home from preschool.  They said they like him cause he plays house with them. :)

Temple Square Christmas Lights

We went to see the lights at Temple Square this year with some good friends, The Beck's and the Goddard's.  The only downside to the evening was that we went the same night as the rest of the State of Utah.  It was so crowded!!

 We went to Blue Lemon for dinner.  So Yummy!! Here's Tucker eating with the Goddard's, with a family of 4 super cute girls (they left the baby at home sleeping) of course he'd rather sit with them, instead of us. :)

The Beck's

Nora Jane wanted to be sitting with the Goddard girls too, I think.  But how bad would that be for us to just pawn all our kids off on to other people for dinner!

Tucker and Sadie....so cute!!!

Nora Jane being a stinker again!! What a cute picture that could have been!

Tucker and Nora Jane with the Goddard Girls!

Cute Bum shot!

Tucker and Sadie...who were "bumping tongues" that night.  I'm really not sure where he gets this stuff from, but he seems to be smitten! (I am too...she's soooooo cute!)

So fun to have good friends to do fun stuff with through the holidays!

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!