Christmas '14

Merry Christmas!  We all love Christmas in July, right?!

We celebrated Christmas this year up at my parent's house again.  It has become our new tradition, and it still kind of feels like Christmas up there!

Santa came, and laid out all of our presents for us so when we woke up in the morning it looked like this!!

Before we could start opening presents we had to finish our nativity calendar!  B was very excited to put baby Jesus in the manger!

We took turns opening our awesome gifts from mommy, daddy, grandma and grandpa!  This was the first year that we did only three gifts, and I think it worked perfectly!  It kept our buying to a minimum, and they still enjoyed everything they got!

Grandma was excited to get B's first book of life!  You wouldn't know that he was already three!  (Ooops!)

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!

B's favorite present were the Mickey and Minnie cars from Aunt Colie, Uncle Jon, and Kinley!!  Love you guys!!

Halloween 2014

For Halloween this past year we were able to go to Trunk or Treat at Cassandra's school again!  The kids had a blast this year!  They were both able to walk around and get some candy!!

Bubba LOVED being Batman!!

Baby girl really liked her Batman!

Bubba enjoyed going to get some candy!

Baby girl wasn't as excited about going up to get candy if they didn't let her grab it out of the bowl!

Cheese!!

Thanksgiving

I'm playing a little catch up, I apologize!  My goal for 2014 is to be a lot better about blogging now that I am back to work full time!  I will get to those later though!

For Thanksgiving break this year Tyler stayed home.  Christ didn't go to Palm Springs for teacher's conference, so just I went and the kids went to my parent's house for the few days I was out of town.  

Bubba checking in on his sissy!

My beautiful baby girl!

While I was in Palm Springs I was so excited to be able to spend some time with Chelsea!  I miss her so much, and it was great to see her!  We even were able to go and see the Catching Fire!  Chelsea and I had been planning this since we found out that she was going to move to Vegas!  We dragged some friends along with us too!

Chelsea, Ellen, Ashley, Lotus and I at our Catching Fire

My BFF Chelsea

The kids had a great time at my parent's house, and when I got home from Palm Springs we headed up to my parent's house to spend time with them before Thanksgiving.  My parents hosted Thanksgiving this year since my dad had to work the entire week!  It was crazy!  He has been working at K-Mart so he has been putting in a lot of hours over the holidays.

Brandon and Natalie have been spending so much time together it is cute to see them laugh, and have fun together!  Brandon loves his sissy, and he loves to give her kisses!

Natalie made quite a cute turkey too, if I do say so myself!

We love our bow from Aunt Ashley!

While we were at my parent's house Bubba was able to play outside a lot!  He enjoyed walking up and down my parent's block, pushing his stroller, and riding on his car that my grandma gave him for his birthday!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas was so much fun this year!  Brandon was so excited to celebrate this year, it made Christmas that much more exciting for us as a family.  We took Brandon and Natalie to visit Santa on Monday at the Prescott mall.  That was quite an experience!  Brandon didn't want to wait in line of course, so daddy and grandma entertained Brandon will Natalie and I waited in line.  Natalie didn't have a problem waiting in line, and even loved having her picture taken with Santa.  She kept looking up at him, trying to get a good look at the game!  She didn't even cry until I went to take her away from Santa.  Then she got upset, and wanted me to put her back on his lap!

On Christmas Eve we talked with Brandon about how he had to go to bed so that way he could get lots of sleep because Santa was going to be coming that night to bring us presents!  He was so excited because all he asked Santa for was a new puzzle!  He couldn't wait, which kept him up past bed time, but that was okay!

Christmas morning Natalie and Brandon were both up around 5, 5:15, but we made them stay in bed until 6!  Finally at 6:00 Natalie wouldn't stay in bed any longer, so we went and got Brandon up.  Much to my surprise grandma was in bed with Brandon when we went in to get him.  (I didn't know at the time that he had been up since 5, and that was the only way grandma could keep him in bed!)

Brandon loved presents!  He loved them so much he helped everyone open their presents!  He got tired of opening his own presents, but as soon as it was time to open someone else's presents he was right there ready to help!

We were very blessed this year and Brandon received many clothes, books and puzzles!  Natalie got some new cups, shoes, and toys from Disneyland!  Tyler got his new video game and some movies.  I got a new computer!  I am so excited for my new laptop, and am so thankful to my parents for always providing so much for us!

We are doing Christmas with Tyler's parents on Saturday, so that will be exciting for Brandon as well!  We can't wait to see his excitement with what they get him!!  I know when we get home it will be time to go through some old toys though and find ones that we can start to give away!

We had a great Christmas up in Prescott, and were blessed to spend the day with my parents, Tyler's parents, and my Grandma Ellen and Mills.

Merry Christmas everyone!  I pray that you all had a blessed Christmas too!!

Easter Bouquet

For Easter Tyler told me he wanted to do baskets again, but that he wanted a candy bouquet for his. I thought I would go ahead and give it a try. So I gathered up my candy coupons, hit up Walmart and CVS for deals going on this week, and bought my supplies.

It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be to put it together. We found a 100 pack of skewers at Walmart, so now I have plenty for the next bouquet he wants me to make. Thinking of making him one for his birthday with drinks?

Finished product, ready to to go for Easter for the hubby