The Call Family

I have been wanting to go ice skating every year since we have been married, but there has always been an excuse as to why we haven’t been able to go. (ex. me being pregnant or the kids being too young). We finally decided that this year was the year to go. We talked Grandma Call into going with us and watching Kaden while we skated. Aunt Lacey, Uncle Jake, and Uncle Blaze joined us as well.

Here is a short video of our ice skating experience. Enjoy!

Kaden kept saying, “I wanna skate!” so Grandma Call went and got him some skates to try it out. I was so amazed that he actually tried it and then he didn’t want to get off the ice! He and Avery both did an amazing job! We had tons of fun and will hopefully be going back again soon!

The day after Thanksgiving we went on our annual trip to Temple Square and dinner at California Pizza Kitchen. We arrived at California Pizza Kitchen later than we had planned and ended up waiting for an hour to be seated. Once we were seated it took an hour and a half to eat and get out of there and on our way to the Temple.

We stopped at the visitors center right inside the gates first to warm up and gather everyone together to walk through the temple grounds. Kaden loved the replica of the Salt Lake Temple they have inside. Avery loved it as well, she pushed her way in front of everyone to get an up close look at it.

While we were inside warming up Avery and her cousin, Jaden, wanted Skyler to take a picture of them. Don’t they look so cute?!?

When we were done inside Skyler took a picture of me and the kids.

We had my dad take a picture of our family.

Uncle Jake and Aunt Nicole gave Avery pennies to make a wish in the fountain.

We walked around the reflecting pond and Skyler took these amazing pictures of the candles on the water and the lights around it.

After walking around for a while we went inside the visitor’s center on the north side of the temple. I had been wanting to take Kaden up to see the Christus and there was no wait so we were able to go up and show it to him. He loved it! He kept pointing and saying, “Jesus, Jesus!”

We had a wonderful time at the temple. It is one of my very favorite holiday traditions! Thanks everyone who came and shared in the fun with us!

Here is a video of Avery and Kaden, enjoying a Saturday morning at home.

Music Credit: Video by India Arie

Thanksgiving this year was spent at Grandma Call’s house. We went over early and made some fun desserts for everyone.

The finished product.

Kaden loved the desserts so much he didn’t want to eat anything else. He is such a cutie!

My cute little Avery.

After dinner Grandma Call had some fun crafts for us to do. The kids made super hero masks and the women made coasters using tiles, scrapbook paper, and modge podge. We had a lot of fun!

We had a really fun Halloween this year. Avery was Rapunzel, Kaden was Flynn Rider, and I was the Queen.

We got to go trick-or-treating around our neighborhood this year and afterwards we went to Grandma Call’s house for soup in bread bowls. Yummy!