Sunday, December 20, 2009

Pre-Christmas in Utah

Claire was so excited to go on a plane, the night before we were to leave I told her what we will be doing in the morning when we wake up... we talked about how we brush our teeth, get dressed, daddy drops us off at the airport, we wait in line, take our shoes off, wait for the nice lady to tell us when to get on the plane, then go find our seats and buckle up. She then repeated the exact story to daddy and then to Grandma. She was excellent on the plane for our flight to Utah. She got to order her own apple juice and got some pretzels.Claire took this picture of the wing, then she said, "uh oh it's broken!"
Claire held my hand for most of flight and at the end when we were landing she grabbed my arm- love that girl! My favorite quote from the flight was when she dropped something and I leaned down to get it... "Oh no mommy be careful I don't want you to fall out the window!"
Claire got her own backpack for this flight (funny thing was she never even opened it so we saved everything for the flight home) Grandma Diane picked us up and we made a stop to see Sandie at work then ate at In-N-Out then went and saw Aunt Debbie at her work.
Aunt Debbie was off the next day so we went and ran a bunch of errands and then went and saw Sandie and Matthew for lunch- Costa Vida and Sonic drinks!

Claire had fun jumping off of Sandie's desk while we were there.

That night we went to Thanksgiving Point to see the lights- Claire and I in the car at the beginning of the drive
When we got home the girls said the were FREEZING, so they sat in front of the fire for a long time
Next morning we were decorating the ginger bread house and Claire and Brenna thought they should dress for the part.
Here's our finished product.
Saturday night was Peter Breinholt's Christmas concert in downtown SLC. We finally talked my mom into going with us. We first stopped at PF Changs then went over to the concert.
Such a fun show as always!! I enjoyed every minute of it- especially when he started singing a song I requested!!
Sunday morning was (an early) Christmas!
Two of Claire's favorite gifts were this flip slip from soon to be cousin-in-law Jen and...
the Hairspray soundtrack from Grandma Diane!! Both of these have been used daily since then
Loved Abby and Brenna's reaction to the gift we got them

We then went to church came home and had a delicious ham dinner. Then Sandie and Matthew took us to the airport for our flight home. Claire wanted to wear one of her skirts on the airplane, I wasn't gonna argue because it was really cute. After going through security we were walking towards the escalators and one of the security ladies said, hey let's see you spin little ballerina... I thought no way would she do this, and all of a sudden she lets go of my hand and spins in the middle of the walkway. Everyone then clapped for her and Claire just smiled and walked away!

3 comments:

debra said...

We LOVED spending that weekend with you guys... I'm still not okay with this whole not living close thing, but whatever ;)

I love all the funny things Claire does--- she cracks me up! Literally, I'm sitting here laughing as I read this! LOVE and MISS YOU GUYS!!!!!!

Jodi Leishman said...

What a fun trip. I'm sure your family loved having you visit and it looks like you had lots of fun activities while you were there.

Anonymous said...

Flying to Utah... how weird! Like I said.. I still can't believe you live in LV now! Looks like a great weekennd with the family!