The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

December is probably the best month of the year (hmm maybe July is). December is pretty good though. All the wonderful things that lead up to Christmas day are so fun and exciting and fill your heart with love for your family and others! 

Here is some fun we had before Christmas this year. 

Putting up the Christmas tree is always exciting.

Susie and I went on the best girls date. Lunch and the Nutcracker. It was so magical. I think we want to go every year now that she is old enough to enjoy it.

Braden had a bad asthma attack. We thought maybe it was pneumonia but his X-ray was clear, hurray! We did lots of nebulizer treatments and a prescription of steroids and he got better fast. I used to be hospitalized for asthma attacks around Christmas every year as a child so it's funny that Braden struggles with the same thing. Sorry kiddo. 

We tried to light the world and add hay to our manger for doing acts of service. We do our best to keep the focus on the Savior. 

 We got a little snow! 

We baked ALL month long! 

We had fun at our ward Christmas party. I was in charge of the Primary program and the kids did great. We brought our neighbors too and that was fun. 

Paul and I continued our tradition of a romantic temple square date. We had the best time! We went to the Lion House this year and a concert on temple square, then shopped around City Creek for a little while. 

We saw the new Star Wars with some friends. Fun date, but the movie was a little disappointing. So sad.

We went to a dress up Christmas party. You had to dress up as a Christmas couple so Paul and I were the Nutcracker and Clara. It was a lot of fun. 

I also got to meet up with my mom and sister in SLC for a lunch and shopping. The Cooper Onion in SLC can't be beat! 

Thanksgiving 2017

Once the holiday season gets here it seems to go so fast! We had a fun Thanksgiving this year. We stayed at home most of the day and relaxed which was heavenly. We had dinner at Aunt Sarah's house. We enjoyed spending time with Grandma and Grandpa and cousins too. My favorite year was the key lime pie. I'm definitely making that again! 

We are SO incredibly blessed. We have so much to be thankful for. 

Fall Festivities

We've had lots of fun this last month. The kids were so excited to carve pumpkins.. more like watch mom and dad carve them! They helped scoop out the innards of course. Braden requested a toothy grin with big eyes and Susie picked this spooky bird. 

We went to the annual Syracuse pumpkin walk, which we LOVE! There were tons of great pumpkins there. We even met Boba Fett and a Jedi master. 

I got to go on a wonderful girls trip with my mom and sisters. We love and miss California, especially one of our favorite spots, Apple Hill in Placerville. We drove 10 hours all the way to Sacramento and visited Apple Hill the next day. It was heavenly! We ate apple crisp and apple strudel and apple cider and lots of apple donuts. It was so fun to get away and be with my favorite friends. 

Halloween was awesome at my house. We started the day with a great party for preschool. The costumes were adorable and we played some fun games. We even hired Belle to come and sing for the occasion. 

Paul got to leave work a little early and made it home in time to eat dinner with us. We changed in our costumes and had a great time trick or treating. The kids were out of their minds excited. It was so cute! Clark got the "tri o tree" down after just a few houses. They had so much fun walking around collecting candy. It doesn't get any better for a kid than that right? 

We had a fun weekend in Cedar City. We traveled down to go to the Cedar City temple

open house. Paul and I took advantage of the free baby-sitters and took off the the day. It was so nice to get away and have some fun together. It filled my bucket for sure.