Aunt Kisty's bday

November is a month of family bdays.

Unfortunately, I didn't get any pics of Matt or Jon since Matt was gone in Hawaii and Jon lives in Idaho now but I did get some pics celebrating Kisty's bday.

She's such a doll and we just love her!

Ethan and Kisty

Marc, Kari with Preston and Logan

Such cute clothes :)

Happy birthday!

Logan and I taking a selfie :)

My cute Rio - just love her smiling face.

Spence, Jax, Ethan and Marc enjoying some yummy German Chocolate Cake.

YUM!

Kisty, Andrew and Bonnie

Happy Birthday Matt, Jon and Kisty!

Saying "goodbye" to our best buddies!

 I'll write about our "move" soon but we did move into our home in November and we are so happy to be here.

When we moved from our townhome, I knew that we would have a hard time leaving the Thompsons.  They became my kids best friends and people they played with every, single day.  But, the light of all that sadness was that they would be moving as well in December.

So for a few days at the end of November, they came over to play while their parents packed and moved.

 My kids were thrilled to be able to play with them a few more times.

They honestly had so much fun together every day and I truly hope my kids find that again in our new neighborhood.

Cuties :)

*Nick, Jax, Ella, Rio, Austin and Sami*

These two connected right away when they met.

They were outside playing with rocks and trying to mash them into tiny pieces.

Always the adventurers these two :)

These two were such cute friends too!

Jax loved playing with Ella because she always had such fun, creative ideas and Jax just loved it! He has a similar mind so they always had a blast!

And these two cuties were just besties too - Rio and Sam loved babies, dolls and anything girly.

They all had a "movie night" together complete with popcorn and Rootbeer.

Great memory together!

We love you guys and are so happy that we got to meet you and become your friends.  Their mom, Kristina is amazing as well and I hope to always stay close to her also.  She is a really wonderful mom, friend and woman.

We'll miss you Thompson kids!

Thanks for everything!

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall and "blow up" bubbles

Oh man, this kid is seriously SO MUCH FUN and SO CUTE right now.

Both Spence and I say all the time how adorable he is and how much fun he is because of the cute things he says and does now.

This day, we hadn't put up our mirror yet and Logan found it and just admiring his adorable face in it and showing himself the fruit snacks he had.

He was being so, so funny and I just love him.

What a cutie pie he is!

Yes, that's you Logan - you're a handsome little devil!

Oh hello there Blake!

For Thanksgiving Bingo, the kids "won" these blow up bubbles and of course, daddy was helping them out the very next morning.

Blow it up Aust...

...there you go.  Awesome bubble.

Rio's turn next.

I bummed I didn't get any of Jax with his bubble but he did a great job too with daddy's help.

They just kept getting bigger and bigger.

Logan's on the other hand only lasted about 2 seconds until he squished it but o-well, it was fun nonetheless!

Thanksgiving 2014 with both our families

My dad had to work again on Thanksgiving Day so we celebrated with my family the following Friday which is always fun to celebrate and see family as much as we can.

So we started off at the Morris' and ate dinner with Spence's fam.

Erin and Jon and Marc and Kari were there too so that was very fun to see them and spend time with everybody.

Kids table!

 Delicious!

 Fun family time!

 The Posey family

Cole, Erin, Jon and Cooper

 Jon and Cooper - love this little baby.  He is such a cutie and so so mobile!

 Time for pie!

Can't wait!

Spence had to stand in line for 50 minutes for these pies! They better be good right?

 Rio....what a sweetie pie she is.

 The next day we got to eat at my parents house with Sky and Matt and their kids of course.

Jax getting cuddles from grandma - they both love it!

 I have said it before but I'll say it again...

love these Fank cousins and their willingness and energy to play with the little kids.

They are so sweet and fun.

Rio is always super shy at first but all you have to do is play and she is all in!

Thanks Zak.

 Blake, me and Zak.

Cute Fankhauser boys

*Zak, Luke, Matt and Gabe*

 Daddy and Logan - cute boys!

 Everyone getting ready for the famous Thanksgiving Bingo!

Ready everyone?

Oh yes, we were!  We got super fun prizes and lots of laughs with this bunch.

Logan even talked himself to sleep that night saying, "Thanksgiving Mingo" - yes Mingo :)

Decorating turkeys & writing to Santa all at once

We had a really fun morning before preschool one day at the end of November.

We had some really cute turkeys to decorate but we also had to write our letters to Santa so...

why not do all at once?

Sound fun!

Jax and Logan coloring away.

Cute little turkeys and Santa letters too.

Santa had to know what to have the elves make right?

They were so excited to have an official letter to send to him.

We dropped their letters off to the post office and mailed them to the North Pole.

And...

 Guess what they got back?

Personal letters from Santa himself!

They were so excited and it was really cute to see their excitement about what they had written to him.

Fun time of year!



I had to take pics of these cute turkeys as well.

They made them with Grandma Morris one day and had so much fun sticking feathers inside their turkeys.

Such a cute little craft idea.  Grandma is always super creative.

I had to capture these too.  To remind them what they asked for when they were 4 and 2.

(Austin's)

Jaxon's

Logan's (age 2)

*Love that all he wanted to cake and a his train*

Rio's

 

Such a fun time with all these holidays together - never a dull moment!