Sunday, January 8, 2017

Deember 2016

I just love the month of December! I think I  actually like the excitement and anticipation leading up to Christmas morning than I actually love Christmas morning. It is sad to me that my favorite month has come and gone, but I sure enjoyed it! This is what we got up to for the first 3 weeks of December.

Ryan built me this amazing stable for my willow tree nativity. I love it so much more now, thanks Hun!! 
Ryan & I went with some friends to a NBA game - Nuggets vs Rockets. Even though we don't care for the nuggets, it was a fun game to watch. We need to do this more often! 

 My friend and her friend. Fun time at the game!
 We went to a friends Christmas sweater party and had a blast. Good food, conversation, and a pretty funny while elephant gift exchange. We came home with some unicorn gold & a buddah head. Kinda ironic because there were so many signs in Thailand telling tourists not to buy buddah heads because it was disrespectful.

 Jaxson lost his 2nd (and 3rd) tooth this month. Bye bye fused tooth!

 We got to see Santa at Kneaders. We went as soon as Santa showed up, so the kids got to talk with him for 20 minutes! Jaxson & Avery loved every second of it, but Griffin kept his (short) distance away.

 Living the life, watching tv with his favorite blanket.
 We had our ward Christmas party and Avery got to see Santa again.
 We enjoyed our last visit of the year to the Nature & Science exibit - it has been so fun having a year pass this year, thanks Rhonda & Lee!
Avery was Mary in her preschool program for the parents. She was so excited to be picked to play that part :)

Singing their Christmas songs after the nativity.
Jaxson had so much fun at his class's Christmas party. Ryan & I (+ the kiddos) volunteered to help out & joined in the fun.
Reindeer ornament
We have some friends over to decorate sugar cookies before we left for Christmas vacation. It was a hit. I think there was a secret contest to see who could fit the most candy on their cookie as they could.




Sunday, December 4, 2016

November 2016

I can't believe November is already over and we are in to December - its my favorite time of the year!! For the first week of Nov, Ryan and I were in Thailand, so these first few pictures are from when Rhonda & Lee were watching the kiddos. 

Griffin enjoying the computers at the library
An eagle scout donated this awesome lego table to the library for his project. Jaxson loves it! 
Saturday morning craft at home depot with the kiddos. Thanks again Lee & Rhonda for watching the kids! 
At this point in the month, we are back home and life is back to normal. Avery loves dressing up and putting on makeup. She dressed up like Elsa this day so she could watch frozen. What's funny is that she only watched a few minutes of it before she started wrestling and playing with Griffin - that is more like the Avery we know. Tom boy and we love her for it!
When I see things like this, when my kids are playing nice together, it melts my heart. Jaxson was doing homework on the ipad and Griffin was just sitting by him and watching :)
November 16th was the anniversary of Harry Potter first being on the big screen. We celebrated with butter beer and pancakes.
We had our first good snow this month and these kids were SO excited to go out and play in it.
Jaxson received an award at school for good behavior. We watched him get recognized ins his school assembly and then all the parents/students of the kids had a cookie party.
The kids thought it was pretty fun taking pictures with the school mascot. 
Date night with Ryan - we went to MOD pizza (yum!) and out to a movie.
The next day, we drove up to Broomfield to watch Fantastic Beasts - our realtor rented out a good portion of the theater for a customer appreciation day. Before the movie started, we walked around the mall area and found this awesome giant size checkers board.
Pre-birthday dinner and cake for Griffin. His birthday was on Thanksgiving day this year, so the Sunday before we had some yummy food and cake. Happy Birthday Griffin!!
Julie and her family came to see us Thanksgiving week. Avery and the twins (Faye & Anne) had so much fun playing together!
Jaxson and Claire played so well together too!
We took the kids to tour the Hammond candy factory - yum!
Thanksgiving morning/Griffin's birthday. We are so grateful you are in our life buddy - you bright us so much joy and happiness with your bright spirit!
 Julie & I made a feast for us all to enjoy on Thanksgiving ... yum, best meal of the year!!
Happy Thanksgiving! So fun that Julie & Brian's family could be there celebrating with us!

After the turkey dinner, we let Griffin open presents and we ate cake. He loved the cars, masks, etch e sketch, etc. Thank you everyone!




He liked the cake, I promise! Looks like I should have snapped a few more pics - oops!
On Thursday night after the kids were in bed, the ladies went black friday shopping until 2am. So much laughing and fun - can't wait to do it again!
On Saturday morning, we went to the park

We also took the Brinkerhoff's to the reservoir nearby to show them around. Love how pretty the sunset was that day, but man was it cold!!
Morning snuggling while watching cartoons


November was such a fun month! We are excited and are loving December already :)