Merry Christmas

The kids all dressed up for church on Christmas-and my sad attempt to get uncooperative kids to take pictures in front of the tree!

Christmas Eve

We had such a wonderful Christmas season and Christmas Eve was no exception. We were able to celebrate our nephew Josh's birthday by going to breakfast at the Cracker Barrel and then to a movie. The Larsen's hosted that night and dinner of course was amazing. It was so great to spend the holiday with family and our friends, The Bloods.

The kids enjoyed their dinner...

Okay, Emery didn't eat much dinner but she did like the chips and jello salad.
We had a fabulous rendition of the nativity put on by the kids-this was the only picture I got, but the rest is on video. I am not sure what Emery was supposed to be but she just liked dressing up!I obviously should have taken more pictures-the kids opened their Christmas pajamas that night when we got home and left out some oreos for Santa because mom had forgotten to make the cookies! Ooops!

Happy 5th Birthday, Davis!

Our big boy turned 5 on December 15th. Crazy! I think he had a good birthday week-he sure was excited! On his big day we went to dinner at Red Robin and then had cake with The Larsens afterwords. He finally got to open his presents-I put them out in the morning and it was a long day looking at those wrapped presents! He was the most excited to get some new lego sets and has been building legos non stop ever since.

We had a 'soccer' birthday party with about 13 of his friends. It was ultra chaotic but I think the kids had fun! Unfortunately I was too busy during the party to get any pictures of the activities, but here are a few from cake and presents..

Here are his answers to a little birthday interview I did with Davis:
Favorite Food: pepperoni pizza
Favorite sport to play: soccer
Favorite book to read: one fish two fish
Favorite movie: cars 2
Favorite thing to learn about at school: numbers
Favorite place to visit: grandmas house
Favorite color: red
Thing that I do the best is: running
Favorite song: i am a child of god
When I grow up I want to be: doctor
Snack I like the best: pretzels
Food I dislike is: spaghetti
My best friend is: Josh
My best memory is: going to the beach

Davis being the leader of his birthday parade at preschool

Ready to open presents

Ready for some cake with his cute cousins
He loved that the waiters at Red Robin sang to him and he got ice cream

Enjoying some sisterly love on his birthday!

Our Santa Visit 2011

My work hosts a Breakfast with Santa every year so I took the kids to see the big guy. He is seriously the best Santa ever. Davis was so excited to see him and let him know that he has been good this year (still up for debate..)


Santa was darling and wanted to have the first Santa picture with my baby
Emery had no problem climbing up on his lap and getting her picture taken. No scared kids in this family!

A bunch of the kids of the ladies from my work, The Chatter Box

I sure hope Santa comes to visit these two this year.

Happy Thanksgiving

We hosted Thanksgiving at our house for the first time ever...I tend to stress out a little bit about such things so I avoid them, but this year it was our turn so I did what any good hostess would do-I assigned out the majority of the dishes to our guests to bring! It worked out pretty well I have to say! My first ever turkey turned out just fine and we had tons of great food and of course so much to be grateful for. We were especially grateful for the Larsen's and the Bloods for spending Thanksgiving with us. Although you can't tell from the sad lack of pictures, there were adults in attendance and we had a great day. Of course Jenny, Cynthia and I followed up Thanksgiving day by staying up all night shopping the black Friday sales. Probably not the best idea for a pregnant lady but we had such a good time I couldn't pass it up. I was only sick for a couple of days after!

A grateful Davis
The kid table...
Making Christmas Trees to kick off the Christmas season

Davis' preschool Thanksgiving Program

We were able to go see Davis sing in his preschool Thanksgiving Program. This kid knows every word of every song and sings his little heart out. I love it!

Josh, Davis and Mallory-the cutest Indians I have ever seen!

San Antonio Trip

I was able to tag along on a little business trip of Steve's to San Antonio at the beginning of November. It was a pretty quick trip, but really nice to get away and have some down time.

We were able to go to the Alamo and some other missions around the city. The Alamo was really cool to see and funny how it is right in the middle of the city!

Sorry for the bad iphone pic but we did get to go with Steve's clients and coworker Marty and his wife Rebecca to the River Walk and have an amazing dinner. I think San Antonio is one of the coolest down towns I have been to. So unique!