Christmas 2013

It was a great relaxing Christmas!
We missed our family but we enjoyed not running around from house to house. We just took things at our own pace and enjoyed each others company.

Ward Christmas Party

Rylee enjoyed dancing and running round in front of the stage. 

Our singing Star!

Cody painted the Donkey for the Nativity!

'Gingerbread' Houses

Joseph's. I have to add that Joseph's Gingerbread house was built on the backs of gummy bears. Literally. This boy would eat just parts of gummy bears and then stick the rest of them on the house. Beware the attic where particular carnage took place. I don't know this child.....

Cody's

Rylee's. She couldn't wait and had already started eating hers. 

Mine. So boring, i know!

Sledding, By far the funnest thing we did. We love our little hill.

Snow Angel

Building a Fort.

Trying to take a picture of the Shepherd's meal.

Joseph and Mary.

Watching Miracle on 34th Street. 

Gingerbread cookies and milk for Santa

Christmas Morning

Theses kids really enjoyed playing out in the snow During Christmas

....and they love each other

Happy New Year!

Halloween Costumes

So, Halloween was a week ago and I am just now getting decent (semi-decent) pictures of the costumes. I was wanting to check out a nice camera and take the pictures out in the beautiful fall leaves. But it's actually been pretty cold and I never get around to checking out a camera. Anyways, some pictures are better then no pictures! :) I realize i have a lot more pictures of Rylee, she was much more willing to have pictures taken. Joseph's outfit is missing the red arm cuffs and Red leg 'boots' I threw together.

Love the tail!

Pretending to be a cat! Meow!

Found the idea on the internet. I bought freezer paper and drew and cut out the design, ironed the freezer paper on and painted the shirts (it's also how I did Joseph's shirt) Can you guess whose was whose? Cody pointed out that the baby doesn't have a heart like us. I guess no one it perfect!

More Pumpkin Fun!

So we had our ward Halloween party on Tuesday. I was in charge of the bean bag toss while Cody took the kids around to all the games. We also carved a pumpkin which Joseph painted the next morning. On Wednesday night Cody and I decided to have a Halloween date since we planned on him being gone from 1pm  to midnight on Halloween (but then a coworker said he would take Cody's night shift and we were able to spend the holiday together!) We carved Pumpkins and watched Monster's University Wednesday. I think these pumpkins were our best!

Rylee's little pumpkin from the pumpkin patch (we couldn't find Joseph's so he painted the Ward Party one), Mine, Joseph's, and Cody's

How we light our pumpkins.

Me and Cody were skeletons - mine had the baby's skeleton and Cody's stomach had pizza and candy. Rylee was a Kitty Cat, and Joseph was Captain America. I haven't gotten a good picture of their costumes. For posterity and memory sake (and because I worked hard (hard for me) on them) I am going to dress them up again next week and take pictures.)

It was a good Halloween this year. It was a nice day so we went for a walk before Jo's preschool. He wasn't allowed to wear his costume but they had it be Pajama Day so Joseph wore his Halloween PJ's. I got to stay the first 15 min. and read to Joseph and Rylee in his classroom - that was really nice. At nigh we had Pizza and got dressed up and trick-or-treated to our neighbors apartments and the kids got a lot of candy! Then we came home and we all watched Monster's University together (Cody and I really liked it!) and then we all crashed! I had been staying up really late the few days before so I was pooped!

Somebody's retaining water. My face looks chubby wubby.  That could also be the hair. Growing hair out is painful and awkward! By the time the baby is born it will look a little better and then slowly it will be the length I want it to be.