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The video starts out a little slow, but wait for the big finish :)

Snow fun in St. George

I took noah out in the snow today. It's not every day that it snows in St. George! Our little excursion started out so well. But as you can see, he got cranky really fast. I am afraid that the fact that I dragged my poor little child out into the snow and put him into a cardboard box and shoved a camera in his face makes me a mean mother. But for the record, when I let him come back inside, I held him for a long time and promised to put the camera away for the rest of the day. But if he happens to do something really cute I might have to take that back.

our friends up north

We went up north to visit friends over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend. Since moving to St. George we are living a pretty isolated life, so we loved feeling popular in Utah County :)

This is the update from our friends and family.

Christian:

He was kind enough to interrupt his strict training regiment for the Guitar Hero championship of the world to come hang out with us. But he did bring it with him to practice.

Ryan and Kari:

They shared their big and beautiful house with us for the weekend. We were hoping having a baby around would show them how fun babies are, and would inspire them to give Noah a little cousin. I don't know if it worked, even fun babies cry in the middle of the night when you are trying to sleep or watch the Bourne Supremacy.

Derek and Shelly:

The newlyweds were speaking in sacrament meeting, and Derek did the special musical number, it was beautiful. And they are having a baby! So Noah will be getting another cousin after all. (Ryan is standing in for Shellie in this picture)

Megan and Ella
(and their super cute babies):

I love my freshman roommates. Pretty crazy that we have little babies and husbands. I felt old, like my mom, when she would drag us to her college friend's house every time we visited Utah. I know why she did it, it's fun. Sorry, Noah. And yes, whether he wants to or not, I will force him to be friends with their kids.

Sister Jensen and Sister Pyatt,
old MTC roommates:

I love being with people who bring out the Sister Pieper in me. (I didn't have another picture.)

The Wards:

It was so fun talking with Julie and swapping pregnancy and baby stories, especially since our babies are only 2 days apart. Noah seemed very interested in little Isabelle. Or maybe it was her cool toys that really got him excited. We had to come home and get an exersaucer like hers, which he loves loves loves.

Ben, Shaunie and the girls:

After a few months of checking out blog posts and pictures of the girls' adventures, it was fun seeing their cuteness in real life. Those girls are adorable! We are excited for Noah to grow up and be all old and funny like them!

Landes Holbrook:

We had to visit the man who back in 2006 conceived the brilliant idea of me and Kyle as a couple (when, before Kyle and I had met, or even knew the other existed, Landes threw a photograph of me to Kyle and said "Here's your future wife"). We love him.

Noah 1st trick

The last few weeks we've been trying to have tummy time with Noah, but he wouldn't have any of that! He would cry and cry after only a few minutes. Last night he looked like he wanted to roll over for a second and then began to wail! We decided that today would be the day, and it was. He rolled over right when daddy came home from work and has been having fun doing it over and over again ever since. It's like he just figured it out and then realized how much fun it was. The funniest thing is how simple it seems that he's rolling over, but how excited Mommy and Daddy are to see him do it. Now we can add rolling over to his list that used to consist of sleeping, eating, and pooping.

Pioche

We spent last weekend with Grandma Campbell. I thought Beaver Dam was small until I visited Pioche. Pioche used to be a thriving mining town back in the day but it's dwindled and it has a little ghost townish feel to it. We walked around town and visited the Lincoln County museum. And Noah made friends with an Indian.

Kentucky Christmas

Below are some pictures of our trip to Kentucky. Noah had a Merry first Christmas. He opened presents and went on walks and played with Grandma and Grandpa. We played Rock Band (Noah included, but he wasn't very good at singing the right words) and watched Heroes. The picture of Noah and Grandma Pieper needs an explanation or she might be sad we show pictures of her with the baby screaming: Noah goes crazy every time you take the bottle out of his mouth. It's pretty humorous sometimes, because he downs 6 oz (in 4 minutes flat) and he's still furious that you take the bottle away. He is our little pig. He snorts too, (especially in St. George where the weather is so dry). Anyway, it was fun to be there at the Piepers where there were 7 people to play with baby instead of 2. Noah was just passed back and forth from person to person the whole time (if that person was lucky enough to steal him from Grandma's loving clutches!). Now that we are back in St. George, he is going through withdrawals since the poor kid is stuck with my face all day!

Noah Flies

We left on Christmas Eve to visit Kentucky. We had to start our traveling day super early to survive the holiday traffic and traveling-with-baby. After all was said and done, our Christmas Eve was fifteen hours on the road/in the air. Noah was pretty amazing, and here's some pictures to prove it.


Ready to go


Sleeping on the way to the airport



Noah chilling


Something divine must be happening here