Momma

My mom was amazing and flew my grandpa and herself up to Portland for the weekend, so they could be at Piper's blessing [more on that later]. They were only here 3 days, which was WAY too short, but we managed to squeeze in some quality time while they were here. Friday we went to the mall and had the girls' pictures taken with Santa. They looked ADORABLE, and after taking up more than our fair share of Santa's time, I finally got a picture that I was satisfied with. We had lunch at Nordstrom Cafe- my very favorite tomato basil soup! Then we came home and took a nice long nap. My mom made us dinner (love that woman) and we turned in early, knowing that Saturday would be a busy day for us.

Saturday we ran errands to get stuff together for the blessing and dinner afterwards. Then Saturday night we had our ward Christmas party. It was "A Night in Bethlehem". For anyone who hasn't had a Bethlehem Christmas party, you are missing out. Everyone dresses up in

Biblical clothes and you eat on the floor on blankets. Those parties are some of my very favorite memories from when I was a kid. And now that I'm a parent, I realize that it really is all about the kids. We had a great time.

Sunday was Piper's blessing. It was fantastic, and the only thing that made me sad about the whole day was knowing that my momma and grandpa were leaving at 4:45 the next morning. Sad. Their trip was far too short, but I loved every minute of having them here.

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My Grandpa Gene, holding Piper Gene. You wouldn't believe the number of women that stopped to talk to my grandpa while he was holding Piper. I teased him that she was a real chick magnet. Seconds before I took this picture, he was asleep, too. If only I were a little faster...

Since we haven't figured out the scanner on our new printer, you get the picture-of-a-picture:

Our Bethlehem costumes

Okay, so almost everyone tells me Piper looks like Peyton. I don't see it because I'm so close to the two of them that I can't see it objectively. Also, Piper is so much bigger than Peyton that it's hard for me to see the resemblance (Piper is a pound and a half bigger than Peyton was at her 2 month appointment). In this picture, I totally think she looks like me as a baby! (Besides being about 1,000 times cuter than I was, and also her head is about 10 times bigger than mine was. I was always a very shrimpy kid.)

Unfortunately, this isn't even the worst picture I have of myself at this age :)