Christmas Traditions...

For our family night tonight, Houston and I took Veronica to see the lights at Dovewood Court. Dovewood Court is in Orangeville that decorates almost every inch of their houses and yards with lights. Veronica fell asleep on the way there so she missed it. There is always next year. When we came home we opened Veronica's first birthday present. Houston has school tomorrow night so we opened an early birthday present. I can not believe my baby girl is almost one.

Small things change everything!

At church on Sunday, Veronica was being cranky. I took her in the foyer to crawl around and then I walk her around to look at all of the artwork on the wall. I point to the artwork, tell who the people are and then I tell her what is going on in the picture. I've done this a few weeks in a row now and this week something changed. I picked her up and walked by the picture of Jesus cleansing out the temple. She pointed at the picture and said "Jesus". I started to cry. It was very reassuring that I am doing what I'm supposed to do. I am raising my daughter and will raise my future children in the gospel.

First Thanksgiving

It was Veronica's first Thanksgiving. And of course, I didn't bring the camera. It is Veronica's last of the first holidays. She loved the turkey and sweet potatoes and of course the chocolate cream pie. We had so much fun with our family.