Prima Ballerina

Taylor started her first ballet class this week. She absolutely loved learning how to be a real ballerina! She did really well for her first time and only occasionally got distracted by how cute she looked with so many mirrors around her.

To go or not to go...that is the question

As many, if not all, of you know by now we are contemplating on moving to England, specifically just outside of London. This transition has been in the works for a long time and now we are in the final stages. The company that wants to hire Nate flew us out for a pre-decision trip over the weekend. I must say England is a nice country...nice people, pretty country side, easy to get around (if you aren't the one having to drive on the wrong side of the road), large variety of gummy candies and chocolates among other things. However visiting a country as a tourist is much different then visiting a country as a future resident. There is so much to think about, schools, social networking, getting used to crossing the street and looking the right way for on coming traffic!, medical and most importantly dental care for the girls (I understand now why the British have such bad teeth...no dental care for children, crazy). On our trip we had to ask ourselves "do we really want to live here??" and honestly after three days we were pretty much stumped. Yes it will be an adventure. Yes we will be able to see Europe. Yes our kids are the perfect age to pick up and go. Yes it will be good for Nate's career. So what's the hold up?? The main hold up for me is the big question of...will we be happy living so far from everything and everyone that has made our life so wonderful up until now?? So it is still to go or not to go....as promised we'll keep you posted.

Christmas 2008

this christmas....

we had a visit from grandma and grandpa jeppson we made a gingerbread house with grandma jeppson

we traveled to utah

we road a train to temple square we braved the cold and saw the lightswe met up with loved oneswe went sledding with grandma ricks on christmas eve we made sugar cookies for santa on christmas eve
we discovered that santa filled our stockings christmas morning
we opened presents and got excited we played with all our new toys we played in tons of snow