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 Lydia and Allie's private Christmas fort. Four dollars to come in. pleas pay below. 


Although the price was steep, it was pretty epic. 

  One abnormally warm day in November my mom and I took the kids up to Third Dam to play and explore. We had a blast!




  The girls have started making these cute heart people. 

  We set up our Christmas tree a week before Thanksgiving this year. It just felt like time. I found this heart with Lydia's testimony she had written all by herself on the tree one evening. These are the times when my heart overflows with gratitude for my amazing kids. 

Surprise! Baby Peck #4 coming in July! We're really excited for our new addition to arrive. 

From Lydia

  Thanksgiving was spent with the Rigby's this year. Though we did have a Peck Thanksgiving the week before with all of Loren's extended family. I'll never complain about two amazing dinners!
  Greyson slept over for a few days and the kids had a blast building forts and creating. 


Loren and I made sweet potatoes, apple pie, cherry cheesecake, chocolate cream pie, stuffing, green bean casserole and Grandma Gardener's salad for Thanksgiving this year. This dutch apple pie turned out amazing, if I do say so myself. 

The food was amazing! Even better was being all together with my siblings. 

Pie time! Mary made some incredible pies like Key Lime, banana cream and a triple berry. 

The kids love their Uncle Brayden.

Loren and I booked tickets for the Gentri Christmas concert at the Eccles Theatre in Salt Lake a month ago. We thought it would be a great way to celebrate our ten year anniversary. We left the day after Thanksgiving for a quick one night getaway. We stopped and shopped at some stores on the way down and then decided to hike to Ensign Peak while there was still daylight left. It was pretty steep to get up there but the view was totally worth it. 





After the hike we checked into our hotel then had dinner at Olive Garden. The next day we shopped at City Creek then went to the concert! It was truly incredible and really helped us into the Christmas spirit. 


A huge thanks to Grandma Rigby and Peck for helping with the kids while we were gone. 











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