A Christmas Program followed by Salt Lake City!

Cara had her preschool program on the Friday before Christmas.  I had to go to school but Mom and Dad took pictures and videos so we could see how awesome it was.  Unfortunately, it turned out that Cara was under the weather but she did her best to perform and even managed to smile.  

This was her face as Santa walked in to her class!

Blogger is refusing to upload any video evidence of this performance, but believe me.  It was adorable.

Promptly after the performance finished, Mom and Dad got me from school and we started packing up the car for Iva's first visit to our second hometown.

As mentioned, Cara didn't feel great and so Mom, Iva, and Cara were awake at 6 am.  Cara with a fever and Iva just with the wake ups.  She didn't sleep super awesome at Aunt Rachel's house.

We did take Iva to the zoo for the first time despite the fact that it was a snow storm!

The zoo was great!  Hardly anybody there, but the animals like the cold for the most part!

It was so quiet! Mommy has a picture of us with this otter during July and our faces are red because we are so hot.

Iva didn't actually SEE any of the animals.  She was all snug and warm in her car seat on the stroller.

Oma meeting Iva for the first time!

Christmas Sunday outfits!  We have three generations of dresses from Children's place.  The plaids don't exactly match!

The girls of the house!

And with all that wondrous snow we HAD to go sledding in Oma and Apa's backyard!

Well Iva didn't.  She stayed warm in the solarium...

We finished up sledding and got all snuggled up in jammies to watch A Muppet Christmas Carol with the Preslars per tradition!

The next morning the snow still beckoned so the girls went off the small hill in front of the house.

Iva was being extra cute inside with Mommy.  Giving big smiles!

We went BACK to the zoo with the Preslar kiddos because it was so fun the first time.  It wasn't actively snowing this time, but still nobody else was there!

Th animals would come right up to you!

It was a GREAT trip up north...except for Cara being sick and Iva not sleeping.  :)