getting in the spirit

Christmas time is here!!! wahoo! We are really getting in the spirit this year. We have had a tree up since a week before thanksgiving and we have watched the original Rodolph and frosty the snowman everyday for 2 weeks. Christmas is so fun with Avy this year. She is starting to figure this all out and it is going to be so fun watching her on Christmas morning!

Last weekend there was such a pretty snow storm. Avy loved it, until she took her gloves off and realized it was cold!

One night we went out to Diana and Braydens for dinner and they made Christmas cookies. SO yummy!

Diana and I took our kids to see Santa at the mall. We walked through macys first and there was a little santa letter station. So Avy wrote a letter and then gave it to santa. It was pretty dang cute. She was really excited to see him but was too scared to smile for the picture :)

 

We went to a live nativity last friday night. It was cold but we bundled the kids up good and it was so fun.  Avy loved the camel. He was Huge!  The church does such a good little production and makes it so peaceful. A good reminder of what we are really celebrating this season

This is just a picture we took before our ward Christmas party. And some pictures of our adorable kidos before church.

this is random, but one night I straightened Avys hair. It is so long and pretty! But it only lasts about 20 minutes then the curls come back! and Im so glad they do. This girl has the cutest hair

thanksgiving

Such a great holiday! All you do is eat and eat and eat and spend time with the people you love the most. We had a amazing dinner with the Thomasons at James and Nicoles house.The entire weekend was perfect. We did a little shopping but most of the time we just hung out with our families and enjoyed being home.

Before dinner we had family pictures. Nothing gets your appetite worked up like taking a ton of pictures in the freezing cold :) But they turned out really cute. Here are a few I snapped on the side with my camera.

The dinner!!

The entire weekend was awesome but I didn't take many pictures due to a HORRIBLE case of mastitis. It is the worst! But I feel much better now and have the camera right back in my kids faces :) These are some pictures from the past week or so...

Smiley happy baby

I lost Avy for 1 second in the store and I found her like this

Hide and seek expert!

sometimes bath time is boring so we mix it up a little :)

 Thank you Bonnie for giving us this Santa! He is seriously Avys best friend. She carries him everywhere, talks to him, feeds him, gives him hugs all the time...