Christmas Time Is Here Again

We love Christmas time in our house and this year we have started off with a bang. We were asked about 6 weeks ago to participate in a Holiday Home Show Tour of homes in the Bountiful area. I wasn't sure because I am pregnant, and this is the first Christmas in our new house, I do not have enough decorations, my Mom lives in Spain now, etc. etc. Well we decided to go ahead with it and said we would be part of the tour. I knew that Shannon, my Mother-In-Law would help me, and so what you see in the next few pictures was created under her guidance with the help of Rob's 2 sisters Emily & Jeni. My sister Nikki & her family did a great job is picking out a tree for us, it is 13.5' tall, and Rob & Nikki were also very involved in making my house presentable to a few hundred people. I was a really good observer of the entire process!:) Thanks to everyone who made this happen for us this year. Rob and I both agree that our house may never look so beautiful at the holidays again.

Coming in the front door, hey Rob!

The family room.

A closer view of the tree. There are lighted balls that go up the middle of the tree. It is minimally decorated, but if you ask me it is perfect!

A closer view of the mantle area. When we were building this house one of the things I pictured was our mantle, fireplace, & hearth at Christmas time. I think this is better than I imagined!
Merry Christmas to all!

Which Is Better

My Jack has been wearing this jersey since the first of October, and I would say he has worn it a majority of the days since then. He did start to wear it with the number on his back about a month ago, so that was a little improvement.

He was recently re-introduced to his Halloween costume from last year. He is Super Why from the PBS show of the same name, and he is coming to the rescue!

So what could be better than combining the two?? If you see me, or I should say my Super Why, basketball jersey wearing son around town just smile and wave, I will understand if you don't want to talk to us!:)

Welcome Snow

We were blessed, or cursed depending on how you look at it, with our first shovable snow of the season. It isn't so bad when you have two super cute snow shovelers taking care of your driveway.

Cosmo, Courgars, & More

This past week my brother Zach invited us to Provo to see a BYU basketball game. We knew Jack would just go crazy over seeing the game so even though it was late, we made the trek to Provo. Notice the great front row seats! Jack wasn't so sure about all of it when we first arrived, but he gradually got more and more excited. He would stand in front of us and as the player was shooting a free throw, he would pretend to dribble and then shoot himself, it was pretty cute. We asked him afterwards what his favorite part was and he kept saying "the cougars", I think he meant the players. He also loved the treats at halftime and the bag of treats and drinks that is left under the seat for you. I don't know if we will be enjoying those kind of perks very often, but it sure was fun to enjoy it for a night. Thanks Zach & Lauren!

We had Cosmo sitting right next to us every once and a while. Jack never really warmed up to Cosmo.

During one of the first time outs the referee came over and let Jack hold the game ball. He was excited at first and then a little shy about it.

Here he is in some back locker room. It was a great night and one Jack will remember for a long time.

Wednesday's Around The World

My sister started doing Wednesday's around the world with her family a while ago. They talk about a different country eat some food, or family friendly version of food from that country. They don't do it every week, but once a month or so. Tonight was Spain, and since we were both just there she invited us to join them tonight. The sign above was made my niece Ellie.

Here they are enjoying some tapas, or appetizers. Meats, cheeses, & olives. We had our kid friendly version of paella, rice a roni, and chicken.

We then pretended to have a bull fight, and here our the 3 matadors and their capes.

Meet our bull. Very fierce.

Here is the bull running at one of the matadors.

The night ended with the bull reading a story about a matador to our matadors! It was a fun night, thanks Ashtons!

Biker Boys

For Jack's birthday Rob and I got him a "big boy bike" and he loves it. With the weather being so great right now in Utah we decided to take Jack out to the Legacy Highway Trail, it is about a 5 minute drive from our house, and it was great. The nicest thing about that is that it is very smooth and flat two things that any little biker needs. It was a beautiful day and Rob and Jack rode for a long time. In my current state, I am not much of a biker, but the two of them were gone from me for about 40 minutes, which is pretty good for a 3 year old. I enjoyed the little walk and just being out in the sunshine.

Aren't they cute!:)

Happy Halloween

If you can't tell Jack is Peter Pan. We dressed him up all warm, I bet he was a little hot, and went trick or treating on our street. He loved it especially when he got a treat he liked. When he got one he didn't want he would have to come and hand it to me, he couldn't even leave it in his bag. Kids are so funny.

Every once and a while he would see something scary and he would whip out his sword and pretend to fight it. He isn't fighting those pumpkins in the background, but some big blow up gargoyle thing. He has watched Peter Pan the movie a lot so he knew how Peter was supposed to act, it was really cute.

Here we are at a door, in fact it is the door to the house right next door to us. Do you recognize it Mom & Dad?
We had a fun night just enough trick or treating for Jack, and not to much that he has too much candy that I want to steal!