December!!!

Austin got his hunter's safety and went Pheasant hunting on the first snow storm of the season. It was seriously a blizzard. Sounds horrible, but they had so much fun.

Allegra has started to LOVE books, and it makes me so happy when I spot her reading one all by herself.

.....putting up the Christmas tree

One night when it was just me and her, she was being such a hoot. She wanted to sit on my lap like this but she would not let me look at her!!! She just kept pushing my face up like this....

Also, this is how she looks playing peek-a-boo....makes me laugh my head off.

Austin got in trouble because he gave AJ her big Christmas present early. We got this minnie 4-wheeler on black Friday. That night I slept in Salt Lake with Ari and Alissa, and when I came home the next day she was cruising around on it. He promised he'd do better next year :)

Grossest, funniest thing ever is that she likes to take the lid of the garbage can, and use it as her own personal seat in the family room. I've found myself cleaning this a lot more lately.

For family night one night, Gma Ingersoll paid for all of us to go through these drive-thru lights in Spanish Fork. We didn't know if Allegra would like it or not, but she LOVED it!!! She just loved it and pointed and awww'd at everything!! So fun!!

She also loves sitting on the counter..... hmmmm

She loves older kids. these neighbor boys are her favorite, and she likes to act like a big girl with them!!!

Ingersoll Christmas party turned in to another dodge ball game, but this year didn't get as intense :)

My favorite person in the world turned 18 months. Wow. Can't believe it.I just can't believe how grown up she feel since she's turned one. She is running around everywhere, throwing crazy tantums, laughing her head off, talking soooo much, and just so much fun. She says a lot of words....cookie, moon, star, hot, cold, mom, dad, ammo, buddy, up, box, drink, help, please, thank you, more, airplane, bath, all her body parts (teeth, outh, ear, eye, nose, toes, foot, knee, hair, etc) sad, happy, baby.  So much fun watching her learn and grow. She has started to tease us....like she says the wrong animal noises and then laughs so hard. It's so funny. She likes to play the game with her animal, "happy", "sad". She  loves to play with my jewelry and wears my bracelts everywhere. She loves all of her stuffed animals and carries them to and from me to the back door mat, back to me, back to the mat....all day! She loves the bath tub and could stay in there all day every day. She loves to sit at the counter on the big girl chair. She is just sooo much fun. 

We took her to see Santa at Keller Williams. They had breakfast and donuts and I took all the pics with Santa. I knew exactly how she would react. She does not like strangers.....

....so I found my first grey hair this month.....tear!!!!

Cindi took the girls to Melting Pot as a last hoo-rah before Jake and Ari move. The poor boys got stuck babysitting while we ate a 4 course meal. These three will be missed :(