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Sewing and Baking Field Trip to Salt Lake City!

Isabel and I went to visit my sister in Salt Lake City for the weekend. Isabel's first time in an airplane.

I paid two bucks for those peanut M&M's. Yeah, we were living the high life.

I love it how on an airplane, most of the passengers are so bored and tired of flying, but you'll always find a couple of dorks like us, taking pictures and oooing and aweing at the sunset.

Natalie spent a lot of time teaching Isabel how to sew, by hand and with the machine. Here are a few of the projects Isabel accomplished!

An "Isabel" banner.

Bean bags, one for Luke, Isabel, Sylvia and Hazel.

Isabel loved it, and I loved meeting, holding, feeding, cuddling with my new cute baby nephew, Jack.

And here he is with his mommy.

Here are a few more of my favorite pictures.

Isabel didn't mind that the snow was gross and crunchy.

They made a strawberry cake from scratch together. Notice the matching aprons. Natalie always thinks of everything, and more.

Jack, Natalie and Justin

In their PJs.

Hooray!

You Helped Make Us

For Joey's Christmas present, the kids got a jar and put in "365 reasons why we love you" (it's only about 45 right now, but they're planning on constantly refilling the jar.)  While they were making this gift for Joey, I was busy helping Sylvia write down reasons why she loves her dad so I didn't get to see everything that Luke and Isabel were writing down.  By the way, most of Sylvia's reasons were, "because I love him!"  Tonight Joey picked out a reason that Luke thought of...