Ross Family

Well I guess its about time for a Ross family update! It sure felt nice to have a break from school and work for a few days of holiday memory making. Jordan is such a smarty pants and got A's in his classes. I got two A-'s which I was pleased with and so stoked to be done with my last super hard math class! We are both looking forward to new classes next semester. Me getting closer and closer to teaching and Jordan continuing to explore his career options.

Mom, Dad, Kathy, John, Jordan and I went on a fun double date to Spanish Fork. We got pizza at Two Jacks and then went to the Festival of Lights. We tried to take pictures but the light creations were just too awesome for the camera. For a first timers (Baileys) it was pretty neat-o!

We missed having Elder Ross around for Christmas but got to send him a Christmas package that he loved and he got to email us on Christmas since he is still in the MTC. Its so fun having a missionary out. And as you can see in our picture, he was with us in spirit. :)

New Christmas outfits :) I love being matchy matchy! Thank mom and dad Bailey!

Jordan and I celebrated Christmas just the two of us on Tuesday before heading down to Herriman. I'd say it was a pretty great first Christmas! We spoiled each other but I'll say that one of my favorite presents was a coupon for an hour long massage! My prego body could sure use it! This is a picture of Jordan holding his finale present. I made a scrapbook of his mission pictures! It took quite a lot of effort but turned out great and he loves it. :)

Thank goodness I have had my own 4ft tree growing up. It fits perfect in our apartment and was fun to decorate with both of our ornaments.

Christmas breakfast was "red" french toast and bacon, with green eggs and milk. Yum and festive!

This is kind of old news but we found out that we are having a girl! So excited. We have a couple names that we like but are leaning toward Ellie Afton Ross or maybe Ellie Mae Ross. Nothing set in stone though. The other names we like are darn cute too!

It was fun having grandma Bailey and grandma Ross at our ultrasound. Of course they loved seeing their little grand-daughter. Find the tissues! She waved at us. :)

Well I think that is about all that is new for us. We are very very happy and had a wonderful holiday spent with family. Looking forward to a couple more days of work and play before school starts.

Happy New Year!

Findley House Holidays

Well we have had an amazing holiday, so I thought I would jump on here and share a couple pics :)

First, my sweet friend Shawna found out how much I wanted a real tree for Christmas because I never had one growing up, and surprised me with the most beautiful Christmas tree ever. Unfortunately we are blocking it in this picture, but I had to take a pic with her and her sister Kelley because I was so grateful for their sweet gift this Christmas :)

{Our Christmas get-up, courtesy of mom and pop Bailey!}

Here comes Santa's cookies!...

{This is our super awesome Christmas gift from Manda. I am slightly in love with this. My bestie sure does know my love for vintage looking things!}

Link and me cutting out the cookies. We had to force him to do it once, and then after that he couldn't stop because he was having so much fun :)

Putting sprinkles on was his next favorite task :)

Link and daddy putting the cookies and milk together for Santa.

Link on Christmas morning! He was SOOO excited when he saw this car out in the living room :)

This was our Christmas breakfast. Red muffins, green eggs, and oranges :)

Link loving his Mr. Potato Head that he got from Grammy and Papa Bailey

My kid is a goober! I don't even know where he learned that cowboys wear cowboy hats, or that they ride horses {aka candy canes}. He is so smart. He even knows how to navigate my iphone to find all his favorite apps, including the one and only Angry Birds, which he is pretty good at. 

We had a fabulous Christmas this year {even if we did have to spend it away from family}. We were able to start a few of our own traditions including: Making Santa's cookies, opening 1 present on Christmas Eve, Reading the Christmas story in Luke, and watching a Christmas movie on Christmas Eve. We chose Home Alone this year and it brought back a lot of memories for Matt and I :) 

Link loved opening his presents, but would get easily distracted by any new toys that he opened, which would then give Matt and I a couple of minutes to open a few of our own :) We got some awesome gifts including a drill which I have put to good use already and used it to decorate my laundry room with some pictures from Shawna and her sister Krissi. Also, mom sent us a lot of camping/food storage stuff, and we were very grateful for that, especially with all this crazy weather we have had the past year. {Speaking of weather, it is 60 degrees today, and we couldn't be happier!}

Well, we hope everyone had a really great holiday!

Love, 

The Findleys