Sarah meets Santa

Sarah met Santa last night at Jordan's work party. She didn't scream or cry, more just stared. She's so cute with her big blue eyes!! Who could resist giving her what she asked for (via mommy of course). Sarah wants a rocking horse, so hopefully Santa brings it for her! One that she can grow into as well so Sarah stops riding Daisy around like horse.

I had my work party this last Saturday at Lamb's Grill and Cafe downtown. It was wonderful! The atmosphere was great, the food was great, and everything was just nice. Recommend for a perfect date night out, or if you are in charge of coordinate work parties like me, perfect place to go!!

Temple Square Lights

Last night Jordan, Sarah and I went to see the lights at Temple Square. They were absolutely beautiful! Sarah loved looking at all the lights! She was reaching out to them, waving at people she didn’t know, and being as cute as cute can be. This year they put a resin nativity scene on the reflection pool! Can you believe it? It is so cool, I had to take a picture!

Sarah was bundled up warm, of course, because it is so stinking cold here! She looked so cute in her pink hat and pink mittens. Everyone was whispering how cute she was as we walked past them. But who wouldn’t?! Look at what a cute little white Eskimo she is!!

Sarah has also found her pook-a-newy (belly-button)!! It is so cute! She will lift her shirt up and "beep" her own pook-a-newy! It is so adorable! I caught some on video, but she wasn't into it once I got my camera out (go figure!!). So, it is a cute feed, but it takes some egging on for her to "beep" herself.

*Twas the month before Christmas*
*When all through our land,*
*Not a Christian was praying*
*Nor taking a stand.*
*See the PC Police had taken away,*
*The reason for Christmas - no one could say.*
*The children were told by their schools not to sing,*
*About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.*
*It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say*
* December 25th is just a ' Holiday '.*
*Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit*
*Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!*
*CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod*
*Something was changing, something quite odd! *
*Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa*
*In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.*
*As Targets were hanging their trees upside down*
* At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.*
*At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears*
*You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.*
*Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty*
*Are words that were used to intimidate me.*
*Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen*
*On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton !*
*At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter*
*To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.*
*And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith*
* Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace*
*The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded*
*The reason for the season, stopped before it started.*
*So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'*
*Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.*
*Choose your words carefully, choose what you say*
*Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS ,
not Happy Holiday !*
Please, all Christians join together and
wish everyone you meet
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Christ is The Reason' for the Christ-mas Season!

Haircut....Short!!

So, I got a haircut today on my lunch break. I told her not to cut it shorter than my shoulders, but to style it differently than what it was because I felt like I needed to pull out of the "high school" style (really long and kinda blah!). So, I said go for it and I wouldn't be mad. I'm not mad, or sad, or anything really right now. Just kind of numb. But, I do like it. And my hair grows back really fast, so no frets, if I end up night liking it I will grow my hair out again. So, here's what it looks like!

"Fa-la-la-lah, la-lah, la-lah!"

Ok, so that was an odd attempt at trying to convey singing in the title of this post. All well, I tried. I am so excited for Christmas!

Okay, so looking at the sweet innocent face of Sarah Marie you'd think she was a good little baby. Well, she is most of the time...

Sarah is already being a stinker-roo and trying to open her gifts. I haven't placed them under the tree, in fear I'd come home to scraps of paper everywhere and Anna dead underneath the wrapping paper, so I've hidden the gifts in a room Sarah's not allowed in. However, last night I had some youth over to practice for the musical and Sarah conveniently found the gifts and wanted to open each and every one of them. Well, she's a cute stinker that's for sure. Christmas this year will be exciting, especially because Sarah gets the whole "rip and shred" concept of wrapping paper.

Oh, I also joined Facebook after much prodding from some friends, so you can find me there as well under Natalie Resch.

Christmas Tree Decorating

Finally, some pictures! I love my new camera, it is so cool!! Here are some pictures of Sarah helping me decorate our tree this year and also the tree mostly finished (we have a star on top this year).

Every year we collect an ornament, so when Sarah gets married and leaves home she will have enough ornaments for her own Christmas tree. My parents did this for me and my siblings and I love pulling ornaments out every year and remembering when I got them and what they each mean to me. Some are more special than others, of course, but they all hold a very special place in my heart. I hope Sarah feels the same way when she's older. This year we all got snowmen ornaments.

What traditions does your family have when decorating the Christmas tree?

My Birthday

So. my 25th birthday was on Sunday. Wow, I feel so old. Not as bad as last year though, I think it was because I had a newborn my last birthday and boy, did that make me feel old. Well, I take comfort knowing Jordan is 2 years older than me and I have no room to complain. I've come really far for only being 25. Most women my age don't even own a house, let alone are married (lest they live in grand-olde UT).

My parents gave me great seats to the Jazz game on Friday night and for the first time in my life I had to look up at the jumbo-tron! I was 6 rows away from center court and I was so close I could hear everyone talking! I never realized how skinny b-ball players are! They look so big on TV!! They are scrawny men with chicken legs!! Ok, not all of them, but I was surprised at how many were!

Jordan also got me a new camera! Hallelujah! I love it! I've been forgetting to bring my camera into work to upload my new pics, so bear with me. I will get photos soon and videos! We decorated our tree on Sunday and I have some cute pics of my baby girl helping mommy hand ornaments. Sarah is such a doll, I can hardly contain myself!

Thanksgiving was great! Justin and Lindsey came up from AZ and my Mom and Dad came down from Logan. Jordan's family joined as well and we had a total of 11 people with Sarah. It was a lot of fun and bless Jordan's soul, he cleaned up the entire meal, including dishes!! I knew I married him for a reason!

I hope every one's Turkey day went as well as mine! I am looking forward to Christmas this year with Sarah. She is already so cute, I can't wait till Christmas morning to watch her open gifts and think the best part of them is the box!