Some of my favorite Christmas break memories.

Teeth.Lights.National Treasure.Mandrin.Snowmobiles.Snow.waiting.Santa.chocolates.
5 crowns.Are you smarter than a 5th grader. Brighton.Juno. Butternut snowballs. Oneity...Christmas. We just returned from a fabulous vacation to Utah. Chloe and I were there for 3 weeks and Brad was there for 2 weeks. We were able to spend time at both family's homes and pack in as much as there was time for. I even went to a movie with my mom and Emily hours before we flew back to Missouri. Chloe changed a lot while we were in Utah. Even looking back now, I am having a hard time remembering all that we did and how much she grew and what fun we had. I guess the biggest change for our little Blue is that she grew 3 top teeth. Her look has changed and we just can't get over how fast she is growing. Look at her grin!! She loves to do "so big". The picture after this one on my camera is funny. It is basically the same bench-no chloe. She fell head first after this pic was taken.
Chloe helping Grandpa. My dad has run over 50 marathons in his life and we finally got him to take all the marathon shirts out and show us. 50 marathons!!! Are you serious? Dad-you are amazing. I love this picture of Chloe helping him box up the shirts.
Once, in highschool, I went to California with a groups. One of the guys on the trip had never been in the ocean before. Chloe's excitment to the snow reminded me of his face when he saw the ocean for the first time. Truly simple fun.
Our little family snowmobiling. Brad said Chloe would just look up at him with a "I guess-if-you say-it's-okay-dad-then-I-will-go-along-with-this-bumpy-cold-ride". Babies are so trusting.

A VERY long, Christmas post.

First present. I think she liked it and I know there will be more... We caught her. Atleast it's not the cookie jar:)
I missed skiing last year for the first time in a long time so I was so excited to be able to go skiing 2 times. We had AWESOME snow. Oh, it was just AWESOME, powdery, perfect, wintery goodness.
I was so nervous to fly on the plane with Chloe. I usually get airsick, but I didn't get sick, Chloe was an angel, and it was over with no problems.
We love our parents. Here is a photo of the group at a chinese restaraunt called the Mandrin.

More Christmas pics.

Chloe sat on Santa's lap 3 times while we visited. She never cried. The girls.
Every year the little kids act out the Nativity story. This year, Chloe was aced out for the baby Jesus by her newer cousin, Ellsie, so she lucked out and got to be the star. Look at how cute she is holding the star all by herself.
We went up to Ogden and walked around the Village of Lights. Can you tell it was a pretty cold night. This is a picture of James (chloe's 5 year old cousin) and Chloe. Hard to tell who is who:)
I LOVE christmas lights.

I can't stand it...she's just too cute. Her first naked, bath picture. I'm sure there will be more.
Brad likes to make me laugh. He has some crazy antics like carrying the dog around the house like a baby. I don't know what's funnier, Brad holding the dog like a baby, or the dog wrapping his arms and legs around Brad LIKE he is a baby.
We considered this for our Christmas card. She's just discovering soooo much right now.
And...this is the ring. See way below for story if you don't know what this is all about.
HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS. I AM IN UTAH FOR A LONG WHILE AND WON'T HAVE OUR COMPUTER. WE love, Love, LOVE you all!!

When there is an icestorm, seems like everyone says "you just don't believe what an icestorm looks like until you experience an icestorm." It's just incredible. You hear this eerie creaky sounds because the living trees are encased in hard ice and as a result they start cracking and eventually break. There might be snow on the ground and when the rain lands on the snow there is a hard covering of thick ice over the snow. Starsky had a tough time going to the bathroom. We just laughed as he slid along the grass. The following pics are from our camera and the icestorm. I'd say it was probably a mild icestorm, thank goodness.
This picture shows our driveway. Luckily, Brad chose a place that has covered parking. Still, the trees hung so low that we couldn't actually back out without driving on the front lawn. Later, Brad chopped these hanging trees down.
These are our chairs on the front porch.
Brad took this pictures as he walked to school.
We heard a crash in the night and found this tree in the morning.
Brad's friend left his bike at school. Oops.

Ice Storm

We had an ice storm last night and school is cancelled today.(I borrowed that pic from someone online) I am excited to have Brad here. He made me his yummy scrambled eggs and toast. I am happy. Simple pleasures.

I served a mission in Missouri and we were there during one of the biggest icestorms they ever had. Power was out for days. Trees were down all over the streets. It was crazy beautiful. I took lots of photos of the event. I even sent one of the photos to a guy I knew named Brad Chambers. I didn't want him to see me in the photo so I carefully cut myself out. He thought it was strange that this girl would send him a photo of the icestorm and cut herself out. (he kept the picture, though. Ahhhh!) And now...we're married. Nice of him to stick around!!

This is our cute tree. I really couldn't imagine Christmas without a tree, plus Brad needs something to keep him company til he joins us in Utah. We also hung lights around the windows. It is oh so Christmasy in the Chambers home. And this is our little Rock Star.
A funny story. I have this ring that I wear occassionally. I have been wearing it recently so I was reminded of this story. How should I explain this ring? Well, I wear it when I want to feel "dressed up", even if I am not going to church. I wear this ring on my pointer finger because I like how it makes me feel flashy, like when you paint your nails (you know what I'm talking about girls). Well, I have had this ring for quite sometime. I think I took it from my mom's jewelry drawer. Inside the ring there is a name etched into the precious metal. All I see is SARAH. I have been wearing this ring for years and telling people, who ask about the ring, that I got it from my mom who recieved it from her ancient relative named SARAH. Secretly, I feel like this ring is some heirloom that I have stumbled across and I am truly wearing a priceless piece of family history. Oh, to be so fortunate. Anyway, one time I was wearing it and my mom asked me about it. I tossed my hair back and said, "oh mom, don't you remember this ring. It is from great grandma". She asked me how I knew that and I took off the ring in a oh-so-i-have-to-remind-you-dear-sweet-mother-of-the-priceless-history-of-this-ring type manner. I showed her the SARAH engraved inside the ring. She just laughed. She laughed and laughed as she told me that the ring was a cheap piece of costume jewelry called SARAH COVENTRY jewelry and that she got it when she was little kid and she just kept it ever since. I still wear the ring with pride and have a little laugh inside as people continue to admire it.