Christmas Tree, Shopping, and Provo

Friday, the 28th, we all slept in a bit and had a slow morning, which was fine by our little family.  Once we finally headed out, we tagged along with Amy and Richard to pick out their first Christmas tree :)

Photobomb by Aiden ;)

Don't know why this one ended up a tad blurry.

Aunt Amber :)

We had Miss Janie stand by the baby Christmas trees :)

She was distracted by something.

The whole family!  Only person missing was Dad, and no, he's not the one taking the picture..haha.  He was actually off visiting cousins and had a great time as always :)

Then the boys and girls split up!  Trent and Richard went off with Aiden to see Big Hero 6 and us girls went off to do a little Black Friday shopping.  Cute, huh?!  I love that I have a boy and a girl!

I love Janie in this picture with us :)

We got a little Christmas shopping done and headed back.  Aiden and Trent ended up taking a nap...

...and Janie took complete advantage of Aiden's toys while he was asleep ;)

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We all hung around while Amy and Richard got their tree set up.

Putting up the star - it blends right in in this pic.

We went outside real quick to get a family photo since we were *unintentionally* matching :)  Aiden is such a crack-up.  He looks so happy in this photo..haha.  And Janie watches his every move ;)

He just wouldn't put his arms down!

Christmas decorating continues.

Aiden helped ;)

We hung out for a while and headed out that night to check out Jen's place since we hadn't seen it before.  Her roommates were gone, so it was fun to have her cute town home to just us :)

Then we had a quick Target run.  Had to snag this photo.  Aiden was just hanging out with Aunt Amy and Uncle Richard while the rest of us were checking out.  He's such a little goof :)

Final photo from that day.  Miss Janie before she fell asleep.  Love her.

Saturday, the 29th, was our final day.  We went down to Provo for the day.  We started at Riverwoods because we had an exchange to make at the adorable Soel Boutique.

Then we had lunch at Malawi's Pizza.  Trent and I hadn't tried it before, but I will never turn down pizza :)

Then we were off to BYU Campus.  Man, we miss that place!  We stopped at the Bookstore first.

At checkout Miss Janie literally leaned out and was trying to grab the Chapstick ;)

Then we walked around campus for old times sake.  Aiden was loving the leaves..ha.

Family photo :)

The Y on the mountain.

It is always so crazy to drive around Provo and see the changes.  We drove by the Provo City Center temple (what used to be the Provo Tabernacle, most of which was destroyed by fire) to see the progress there.  I can't wait to see it when it's done and I would love to come up again and go through it!

We headed back that evening and took it easy and had dinner.  Aiden discovered the boxing gloves.

Grandma and Janie.  Don't know why it's blurry again.

Loving the dogs again.

Before we came up to Utah I had pinned a website with fun things to do in Utah this winter (you can find it on my Travel board) and we decided we wanted to get out and see some lights.  The list mentioned a place called Christensen & Hymas in Draper with over 40,000 lights you could view from your car, but when we went to their website we discovered it was a law firm, and there was no indication they had lights or anything.  We browsed the web for some other ideas, but wanted somewhere where we could just stay in the car..ha..so we decided to at least drive by, especially since it was only a few minutes from Amy and Richard's.  And we're so glad we did!!  It was one of those neat displays where you turn to a specific radio station and they have the lights synced to the music. It was so fun to watch and we stayed through a few songs.  It was hard to get a good picture, so Jill got a pic on her phone of us in the back seat during it ;)

We got back to A & R's and Richard made us homemade hot chocolate and we turned on Here Comes the Boom.  Kind of random, I know, but I found it at Target the previous night for like $4 and it's one Trent and I watched a while back and enjoyed.  It's definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it.  It seems like hardly any one's even heard of it, but it's just a cute, funny, clean movie if you need any movie-watching ideas :)

And Sunday we packed up our cars and headed back.  We were so sad to leave.  We had the most wonderful time in Utah with the fam. We loved being all snug in Amy and Richard's home.  I definitely got a little teary-eyed as we said our goodbyes and started our long journey home.  A big thank you to Amy and Richard for letting us stay in their home and hosting a great Thanksgiving! See you all in just a few!