December in a Nutshell

December came and went too quickly that I didn't have a chance to sit down and blog! So here we go with some highlights!

Jon and I went to this fun pizza place downtown, which was fantastic. We took Cookie and she got her very own Mac and Cheese.. apparently Mac and Cheese is the best food in the world.

I made these delicious Christmas treats with my sister.. big mistake, it took all day to make all these goodies however I think they were delicious!
My mom sent this super cute outfit for Cookie, her shirt says Daddy's little cookie. Let me tell you that is the truth she is a daddy's girl to the core, follows Jon all around the house when he is home.The week of Christmas Cookie and I got the flu.. not fun, but by Christmas morning she was back to her normal happy self. For Christmas Eve, we had yummy food, wrote nice notes, acted out the nativity of course, opened one present, and most fun of all played sardines. Oh and yes, Jon requested no pj's for Christmas this year, so we found him these lovely shorts instead, just call him Mr. Jingles!Santa also brought me this delicious cold coke for Christmas morning!A few days after Christmas we headed up to the Nelson cabin, which was lovely as always. Utah was stinking cold, and it snowed a ton. It took Jon and I over 1 1/2 hours to get the car up onto the driveway!! So needless to say we spent most of our time just hanging at the cabin. We did venture up to Salt Lake, saw the lights (for all of 10min. due to cold)!! Scott, Eric, Hillary and Adam all came to the cabin for dinner and a fun night of poker. Hillary and I won.. yeah were awesome. For New Years Jill and Drew and the boys came to the cabin late at night, we played games, ate more yummy food, and barely stayed up till midnight! We also went sledding on a hill right close to the cabin, it was a pretty great and cozy little get away!

Thanksgiving in St. George

For Thanksgiving we headed to St. George to be with Jon's family! The weekend was fantastic, almost all of the siblings were able to make it which made it even more fun. We ate yummy food, played ultimate frisbee, went shopping, had a baby shower for Emily, celebrated Mom Cook's B-day, it was just a great weekend and so fun to be with family. Cookie also loved hanging with her BFF April! As we headed home to Grand Junction, it was nice to have time and reflect on our lives and truly how much we have to be thankful for!

Visit from Grandma and Grandpa Cook

Last weekend Kent and Debbie came and stayed the weekend with us! We had a great time with them here, we ate yummy food, went on a hike, made the most delicious homemade salsa.. (yes you should all be jealous) took a drive up the monument, which I think made us all a little sick, and watched movies. It was so fun to have them here, we love to entertain guests so anytime you need a place to visit you know where to come!

The Big One!!

This girl is 1, can you believe it!! I remember a year ago driving to the hospital completely giddy to have this baby girl and now she is 1, I really can't believe how time flies.
For the big day, we went and rode the toys at the mall with cousin Karter, picked out the perfect toy for her present, got suprised by Daddy with a huge balloon, had pizza (which cookie ate a whole slice of) and had yummy cake ( which Cookie also ate almost all of)!

* We also went to the Dr. the next day, here are the stats!
- 19#13.5 ounces
- 28 1/2 Inches Tall
Latest Tricks - Says more in sign language and all done, High fives, raises her hands for touchdown, walks everywhere, claps, kisses, gets into everything!
We love this baby girl, Happy Birthday Cookie!!

Trick or Treat

Cookie was our little duck for Halloween this year, which was really cute cause her walk is more like a little duck waddle. We had a great time at the ward party and then on Halloween we took her to just a few houses. Cookie would walk up to the door, holding her own bucket, get the candy turn around and when we would pick her up she would kick her legs, shake her bucket and let out a big squeal! We loved it and the candy she totally scored for us!!

Happy Halloween!

BYU Football Game

We took Cookie to her first ever BYU Football Game! She actually did pretty good and sat through most of it, and more importantly she learned how to raise her arms up to show touch down!!

I love that Jon and Cookie have the same facial expression here!

Halloween Pumpkin Carving Family Night

I love Halloween season! Jon and I decided to invite some of our friends over for a pumpkin carving evening of fun! We made yummy soup dinner that we put inside of a pumpkin and then made breadsticks to look like bones with blood dipping sauce and then we of course had to have Dry Ice Rootbeer! I didn't take many pictures but we had about 8 family's come which made it really fun.

Cookie had a blast as she tried to eat the Pumpkin's.