It's beginning to looks a lot like...

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

One of my favorite things to do for Christmas is setting up the Christmas Tree. Since we moved to Holbrook we have had dinner at Kyle's Mom's house every Sunday and during the Christmas season we put her tree up for her. This year Macy was a huge help and loved to put the ornaments on. 

London on the other hand thought they were funner to take off. She makes it looks so cute though.

Macy was super fun when it came to decorating our own tree. She insisted certain ornaments went in certain places, and always got so frustrated with London when she would bring me an ornament. By the end of the month the bottom half of the tree was looking pretty sparse with a bunch of ornaments out of London's reach, but it started out really pretty!

Let it Snow...

Winter sure came in with a bang this year. This was the view out of our front window! When people ask about the weather in Holbrook in the winter we always say "It snows, but it melts by noon and doesn't stick often." Needless to say, we were shocked at this 12 inch snow pile when we woke up! Snow day! Yay! We waited for the girls wake up and opened the window for Macy to check it out. I asked her what she thought about it and she said "SNOW! For me?!" It was the cutest thing. We asked her if she wanted to go play and she let us know that she couldn't without her mittens, good thinking little one. 

Macy took the snow pretty well, it's really the first time she's ever played in snow this deep. We had lots of people that have lived here for 20 years telling us that this was the deepest they had ever seen it snow here. London was a little nervous and pretty much just stood on the porch. 

She tried venturing out once and that didn't go well... 

Kyle was SUPER excited for all this snow. He and Macy made a snowman.

Me and Mr. Snowman. 

It really wasn't that cold, only if you actually touched the snow.

We are Thankful!

Thanksgiving this year was spent in Buckeye. We had quite a crowd with all 3 of my brothers and my Grandparents. It was a typical Thanksgiving, lots of great food, football, and family. My Mom did an amazing job this year with the table. Around the napkins she put two paper leaves and after we ate dinner we wrote what we were thankful for and we put it on her "Thankful Tree". She made a scrapbook and each year she will put the leaves into the scrapbook.. she's pretty awesome that Mom. 

Sorry for my lack of pictures of Thanksgiving, I think I was too busy just hanging out to take pictures :) These two were actually stole from my brothers wife Meghan, Thanks!

The day after Thanksgiving we got a babysitter for all 6 of the little kiddos and we all went to the ASU game. We lost, but it was fun to go and hang out with the group. 

 Here is half of the group, on the other side of Dad was Mom, Chris, and Kati

    

That Saturday, Kati and I decided we didn't want to sit around all day- so we made plans to go to the Wildlife World Zoo. If you ever want to go, I suggest buying a carton (or 2 or 3) of Hickmans Eggs and using the BOGO Free Wildlife World Zoo tickets! The zoo can be a little expensive, but since we had enough of these it was a little more affordable, and there is no expiration date so look out on your eggs and clip out those coupons! 

As you can tell London was VERY excited to go to the Zoo! 

 Macy and Brelee checking out the ducks...

 A lion cub, his poor paws were bigger then his head!

They're adorable aren't they?

 The best picture I have of the motley crew, Mom and Dad, Chris, Kati, Wesly, Travis, Nathan, Brelee, Me, Kyle, Macy, and London.

 I don't think I've ever been to a Zoo where the littlest one hasn't fallen asleep, which means it was an awesome adventure!

Big Girl Beds!

I got a call from my Mom asking if I would like a set of bunk beds, they were in good condition and she had a friend that was giving them away. Of course! I'm always up for free things, if it's not "my style" I can change it up a little to make it my style. The beds were a light wood color, and they were about 15 years old, so they have their fair share of dings and scratches. They didn't really match Macy's room, so I decided to paint them white! If only I had taken a before picture, but ta-da!

I love them :) The top bunk is about to my chin, which really isn't tall at all. When we move London into Macy's room we need to build a ladder, but that won't be hard since the bed looks like 2x4's. Yay for "free" bunk beds! (After primer, paint, and seal stuff it probably cost me about $70, still way cheaper then a "shabby chic" bunk bed from the store!).

"I'm just changing her diaper Mom!"

When your 13 month old walks up to you like this....

 You automatically say to your toddler "Umm... What happened?!" Macy's response? "I was just changing her diaper, mom!" "Whose diaper?" 

"The bear..." Oh.. of course.

Victim #1...

Victim #2

 On the things I never thought I'd use a vacuum for...

Halloween

Happy Halloween!

Like every other parent out there, about the beginning of October I started asking Macy what she wanted to be for Halloween. The answer? Christmas! Hmm.... okay. We talked about it A LOT. We looked at pictures of cute butterflies, flowers, and princess costumes, but it was always the same answer "Mom, I told you. I want to be The Christmas." I tried figuring out exactly what "The Christmas" was and it turned out that was Santa Claus. Okay, I can do that. Then, it turned into the Christmas Tree. That's a hard costume people! So this is what we came up with...

 Most people guessed she was some kind of fairy, but I won't hold it against them because it's not often a little girl wants to be a Christmas Tree for Halloween :)  And here's another one of our little smurf...

 We started out just going to a few houses, started off at the Larson's then onto the Millers and Grandmas, but Macy quickly learned that the more houses we went to the more candy she got. We went up on "the hill" and made the rounds up there, and now we have a huge bucket full of candy.. yum!