Christmas Spirit

Dale and I have decided December at our house is going to be filled with the Christmas Spirit.  Naturally I just HAD to put up my tree 3 days before Thanksgiving, and let's be honest...I've been listening to Christmas music for months :).  I love the spirit this holiday brings.  This year I really want to focus on a Christ centered Christmas.  After all, He is the reason for the season.  To start off our Christ centered Christmas Dale and I took Trey on his first ever trip to see the lights at Temple Square.  We of course picked up our OH SO WONDERFUL hot cup of Caramel Apple Cider from Starbucks!  I thought it was delicious, Dale thought it was amazing.  Trey just drooled.  Next we walked through Temple Square and admired the amazing lights.  I thought they were beautiful, Dale thought they were incredible.  Trey just drooled.  Before leaving we visited the Nativity scene set up by the temple.  I loved it, Dale thought it was great, and Trey...well, he just drooled.  Not so sure Trey got much out of our trip, but Dale and I were incredibly overexcited about taking him.  Apparently everything is much more fun when you have a kid.  Even if all they do is drool :). 

1st attempt at taking our own picture...

2nd Attempt

3rd attempt...didn't realize Trey's hat had fallen down :)

4th picture...taken by a kind stranger who was watching us struggle :)

The reason for the season!

A thankful heart

I have so much to be thankful for.  Most especially these two handsome boys :).  I love my boys!  I am so grateful Heavenly Father has allowed Dale and I to bring our sweet little Trey into our home.  He brings us more happiness than we knew was possible.  I am grateful for my sweet hubby too.  He is so much more than I ever imagined I'd find in a husband.  He's the epitome of charity, though he may not see it.  He has done so much to make life easy for me.  He works hard to make my burdens light.  I was so worried about going back to work after Trey was born.  I didn't want to do it.  And though it's still not ideal, I've never once worried that Trey wasn't being taken care of.  I've never had to think twice about leaving him with Dale.  He's the best daddy anyone could ask for.  Right now as I write I can hear him in the other room making Trey giggle like only Dale can :).  I'm so grateful for these sweet boys in my life!  What a blessing they both are!

Halloween Dinner

This year we decided it would be fun to do a Halloween dinner at our place.  Well, actually we ended up having 2 Halloween dinners at our place.  They were so fun to plan!  I used most of the same decorations for both dinners, so I've kinda mixed the pics, but here they are!

Of course our camera was out of batteries, so I had to steal most of these pics from my friend Jessi. 

Dale was Pongo, Trey was Spot, and I was Cruella DeVil :)

Erin was Princess Peach, Brett was Luigi, and Blake was Yoshi.  I love it!  This pic. of them is super cute too :)

The Millers were the Little Red Riding Hood crew!  I love this idea!  Jessi was the grandma, Ryan the woodcutter, Gracie was Little Red Riding Hood (holding an ax of course :) and cute little Coby was the wolf!  Cute costumes!

 Pongo and Spot :)