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New Family Website Address

Coke vs. Pepsi, Cat vs. Dog, Skiing vs. Snowboarding...you get the idea.  Anyway, I've just made the switch from PC to Mac and will be using my awesome new programs for our family website/blog.  So, please visit our new site at http://web.mac.com/shantelpalmer and update our link on your pages if you want.  Thanks!

Early Christmas

On the Friday before Christmas, we had a small, early Christmas before leaving for Salt Lake. We tried to take Isabelle over to the outlets to visit Santa, but he was on a break that never ended. When we got home, we gave Isabelle some of the gifts that would not be making the trip to Salt Lake. She barely cared about unwrapping the presents and even the presents themselves! Danny and I did most of the unwrapping for her while she played with her other toys (I guess we should have just wrapped some of those up and saved the $)! After a little coaxing, she did ride on her new zebra and play with a few of her new things.

We were supposed to fly out to Salt Lake on Saturday morning, but I got the terrible 24-hour flu early that morning and we had to change our flight to Sunday. Thanks to Danny for taking care of me and Isabelle even while he was suffering from a really bad cough and cold!

Holiday Spirit

Izzie really got into the holiday spirit in December tasting some delicious Christmas candy, "un-decorating" the tree (you'll notice that most of the ornaments made their way to the top portion of the tree), and playing with our Santa & Mrs. Claus wooden dolls. The dress she's wearing is her Christmas dress - luckily she got to wear it to church once before Christmas since we ended up missing church on the 23rd because of our flight to Salt Lake.

Cutie

These are just a couple recent pictures of our little princess. The poor girl got her first case of the stomach flu on Sunday afternoon and is still slowly recovering. We fly home to Salt Lake on Saturday for the holidays, so hopefully she feels better by then.

Visit with nana & papa

Danny's mom, Vi, and step-father, Andy, visited us for a few days in early December. We had a ton of rain while they were here, so we mostly just hung out at our house, shopped at the outlets, and went out to eat. Isabelle had a really fun time opening and playing with her new piano, an early Christmas gift from nana and papa. We also had the chance to go down to Tucson one afternoon and visit Danny's grandmother, Alice, and step-grandfather, Harry.

Family Photos

A year after Isabelle's arrival, we finally had some professional family photos taken. It worked out great because we were able to kill two birds with one stone and get Izzie's 1-year old photos taken at the same time. I had a different outfit for her to wear for her individual shots, but her attention span with the whole photo shoot thing was pretty short, so I didn't want to push it! Anyway, here are a couple of my favorites.