Santa's first visit

We surprised my family and drove to California for thanksgiving and they were definitely surprised! We said we would never do that drive again but it has been a while since we've done it, so I guess we already forgot how much we hate it. This time was no different, we definitely still hate it. But we had a great time and on Sunday Rachel got to meet Santa for her first time. I thought she would cry but she didn't mind it all. She even got her first two teeth at the same time on thanksgiving and she was as happy as ever. We didn't get any pictures around the table but here is one of Rachel eating thanksgiving dinner and one of our trip to see Santa.

Halloween in Utah

Here is Rachel's first halloween! She watched her daddy carve a pumpkin and was dressed up as whinnie the poo's honey pot for the church party. I am a ladybug and I'm sure it is obvious that Will is Superman. He grew out his hair and I dyed it black. The church did trick-or-treating in the parking lot and it was fun to take Rachel around and get candy. She wanted to eat the candy with the wrapper on. We didn't actually let her eat any candy but she could taste the tootsie roll through the wrapper. It was fun to dress up but we felt kind of silly when we were around so many adults that didn't dress in costume. Some did though, so we stuck around them. Next year will be more fun because Rachel will be old enough to understand what is going on.

The Wikstrom's

Kaylee was baptized in August of this year even though her b-day is in June (we wanted both sides of the family there). We had lots of fun making fun of Troy, because as you can see, he truly looked like Elvis in his jumper! What a good sport he was. Afterwards we went to the yummiest pizza place in Gustine, The Pizza Factory. Gustine is really a boring little town and so we find ourselves frequenting Troy's parents house in Clovis and my parents in Citrus Heights. We still do a lot in San Jose as well (most of our friends still live there and some family too). Troy works in San Jose and comes home a couple times during the week and on the weekends. That's us in a nutshell right now. The Richard and Cristina Judd family met together in Saratoga at Villa Montalvo at the end of the summer and Pablo took a bunch of photos of us all. Here is one where most of us were acting normal (minus my hubby, of course). It's hard to get a bunch of Judd's together and expect them to sit still for 30 seconds. Unfortunately, Phillip and his family were not there. My mom and dad are on the left with Tyler (Anna's son) and Isabelle (Anna's daughter), Brandon, Pablo, Kylie and the twin's (being held by Kylie and Theresa, Pablo's wife). Troy is next to Theresa and I'm on his right holding Jacob. Then comes Anna with her son Julian and Kaylee on her left followed by Ben (Pablo's son) and my daughter Corrinne in the flower top with a BIG smile.

sitting up is so fun

Rachel learned how to sit up this weekend and she just loves it. she can get to her toys better and see more around the room. she even has more fun in the bath tub too! I guess crawling is next.

Rachel is 6 months!

Rachel is 6 months old today! here are some cute pictures I took for her half birthday and a video. I hope it works.Sorry the quality is not that good. I shot the video with my digital camera. she is playing with a toy banana from her Grandma Judd. I made a longer one but the blogger would not load it. She is so cute I could watch it over and over.