Santa Clause and Our Christmas Tree

Santa Clause came to Fountain Green, the boys were excited to tell him what they wanted for Christmas. Even little Korbin sat on his lap and was happy about it! Karson asked Santa for a real puppy and Kellen asked for a pet snail.....Good thing I am friends with Santa, because he told them they would have to get a ok from their Mom and Dad. Poor boys are pet deprived, but where we live right now is no place for a pet....I made the mistake a few years back of telling Kellen he could have a dog when he turns eight...he defiantly hasn't forgot, so I guess we will have to get them a pet in a couple years weather we live here or not.

I think it's cute that Karson is holding Santa's hand. You can tell he was happy to see him.  

Our Christmas tree! I have decided that ribbon on a fake tree looks good, but on a real tree it's hard to get it looking good. After this year we will be done with ribbon on our tree. We love our tree and the boys love having the fake tree in their bedroom that they can decorate how ever they want. 

Thanksgiving Weekend

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with Trevor's family. The kids had fun making ginger bread houses and Christmas ornaments for their Christmas trees. The boys loved spending the day playing with their cousins at Grandma and Grandpa Johnson's house. 

Thanksgiving night we drove over the mountain to Grandma and Grandpa Scow's house so we could go Christmas tree hunting with everyone in the morning. I love that everyone gets together to go Christmas tree hunting it makes it so much fun for everyone. We split up looking for trees most of the kids went with Grandma and Grandpa. Trev, Korbin, and I went with Tiff, Dal, and Kaejha. Grandma Scow ended up finding our Christmas tree. We then had hot chocolate and doughnuts that my Mom brought. On the way back to my parents house I told Trevor a story about my Mom when she was a little girl. I guess my Mom's Dad Bruce Gordon like to cut a pretty Christmas tree every year for Christmas (maybe that is why my Mom is the same way). One year Bruce and a friend of his were drunk one night and decided to go cut the top of pine tree off in a city park. In the newspaper that Christmas there was a reward offered for whoever knew who cut the top of  the tree in the city park.  My Mom said anyone that came to their house commented on how beautiful their tree was and her Dad had a outrageous story of how he climbed to the top of a mountain in the snow to cut it down. Needless to say when we got back to the house Trev had to give my Mom a hard time about how cutting Christmas trees down in city parks were not above her standards to get a prefect Christmas tree.

Snow!

We have had a blast playing in the snow this past week! We built two snowmen and a snow fort with all the snow we got.  We built two snowmen, because of course the boys have to destroy them after so long. The snow fort eventually had to be destroyed too. I love playing in the snow with my boys.

28 weeks

I think this picture does me justice, because I have felt huge this whole pregnancy and I don't look as big as I feel in this picture! I did "run" or more like jog up until 28 weeks. I am definitely not able to anymore. Our baby is a healthy, growing, wiggly little boy. What more could I ask for...I feel guilty sometimes because I complain about the discomforts of pregnancy more than I should. I have so much to be grateful for. I can't wait to meet this little boy.

Halloween Fun!

I am pretty sure you can guess what pumpkins are Kellen and Karson's....Out of all the cute Halloween pictures they could have done on their pumpkins, they wanted the scariest ones. I picked out Korbin's that is why his is a cute owl. We carved pumpkins for FHE and then took pumpkin cookies around to the neighbors. The boys love taking cookies to people. 

The week of Halloween the school had drug free week where the kids got to come to school everyday dressed up as something or on the day I took this picture is was crazy hair day.

I made sugar cookies for Karson's Halloween party at preschool. When I was making the cookies Kellen and Karson wanted to be right there helping me. I enjoyed having them be involved and talking with them while Korbin napped. When Korbin woke up he was the taste tester.

On Friday I also got to help out with Kellen's Halloween party at school and later that day he got to walk in a parade with the school dressed in his costume.

Karson and Korbin enjoyed watching the parade 

My friend April did a awesome face paint on me for the carnival and fun run Friday evening.

Kellen and Karson did an awesome job running the fun run. They both got a trophy.

Batman

Woody

The boys loved going trick or treating, they couldn't get enough of it! When we were trying to finish up the trick or treating the boys kept saying just one more house! Needless to say we had way more candy than we knew what to do with. It sure was fun seeing how excited they were to go trick or treating.

Halloween Party

Our favorite part of Halloween, my Mom's Halloween party she does every year. Good food, fun games, and the awesome spook alley that uncle Kory does for the kids. Korbin wasn't feeling very good that day so he wasn't having as much fun as Kellen and Karson, but he sure like going through the spook alley. It's "scaredee" he would say. 

Korbin is not in the picture, because he was sleeping.

These are the cakes and cupcakes Meagan, Shalee, and I made for the cake walk.

Kellen and Karson were feeling left out because their costumes didn't come with weapons like some of their other cousins had, so Uncle Davin and Grandpa made them swords.

Even little Owen and Klayton dressed up for the Halloween party.