A fun day with Jamie & Dan

A couple of days before Christmas, Paxton and I went to Elk Ridge to hangout with Uncle Dan and Aunt Jamie.  I taught Jamie how to make rolls from scratch, then we went with Dan's family to see a movie.

It was a really cute movie, but not something you would take a one year old to.  Paxton kept asking for the animals and I had to keep telling him "they'll be here soon".  The only thing that saved me was bringing in Paxton's carseat.

One of my friends told me that she did this, so I thought I would give it a try and it was the best thing ever!  He didn't once ask to get out of his seat and I know had he not been in his carseat, he would have been all over the place and driving me crazy.  So thanks for the tip Melissa, I will be doing this again no matter how dumb I felt carrying the carseat into the theater.

After the movie, Paxton was acting crazy with his uncle Dan, it was fun watching these two together.

Then afterwards we went and drove around to look at some lights.  To see more pics, click here.

 I love looking at lights, especially when I can stay in my warm car.  It was fun also to see Paxton enjoying all the lights.

Thanks for having us over Jamie and Dan, we had a lot of fun!

Merry Christmas!

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And the winner is...

Tangled!!!

I'm glad we weren't doing the voting because they were all so good.  We are grateful to our next door neighbors who came over and voted.

A House Divided (tied for 2nd place)

Jamie & Dan

*Oh and these two agreed to do the score 7 to 7 and later Dan was sneeky and changed the score to 71 to 7.  Jamie didn't notice til the end when someone said something, Dan got a good sluggin' in the shoulder!

Like a Lighthouse (tied for last place)

Mary Jane & Parker (Jamie's friends)

A Winter Barn (tied for 2nd place)

Liana & Russell (Rem's brother & his wife)

The Hogle Zoo (tied for last place)

Rem & Mindy

Tangled-1st Place!

Erika & her date Joe

We LOVE doing this party every year!  Everyone did such an awesome job on their gingerbread houses.  It just keeps getting better and better every year.  Thanks for coming everyone, we had a blast!

Paxton loves his Uncle Bob (that's what he calls him). 

Paxton ate some graham crackers in his chair for a little bit and read stories with his uncle and then we put him to bed around 8/8:30 and he slept through the rest of the party.

In the morning Paxton enjoyed our Hogle Zoo!  He kept wanting to touch it and he was pointing at all the animals.  Well at least he enjoyed it ;)

Cast your VOTES!!

We had another successful year of our Annual Gingerbread House Party!

Go ahead... VOTE for your favorite and tomorrow we will tell you whose is whose and who actually won at the party.

A House Divided

Like a Lighthouse

A Winter Barn

The Hogle Zoo

Tangled

ZOO lights

We called up Papa Moss and invited him to Zoo lights.  He first treated us to a yummy dinner at 'The Blue Plate' it was a hole in the wall type of place.  I was a little worried when we first drove up, but it was delicious.

Pax loving the motorcycle.

Then on our way to the ZOO!

We had never been to Zoo lights before.  It was so fun to see all of the lights there, we were very impressed with how much they had.

It was a very cold night.  We prepared well for Paxton and even me, but we invited my dad very last minute so Rem shared his hat with him and Paxton shared his lion hat with Rem, he was pretty stylin'.

Look they even had the lion drinking fountain!

I love my dad, I'm so glad he could come with us!

We didn't go in and see Santa, but we did see a few of his reindeer.

So funny story... Paxton loves to look through all of the pictures and videos on the camera.  So once we were back in the warm car, my dad was going through all the pictures with Pax and asking him what animals are in the pics and so forth.  Well when they got to this picture my dad asked, "who is that?", Paxton's reply was "Jesus".  We all just busted up laughing!  What a funny kid, love him!

HO HO HO

On our way to see SANTA!!!

We had to wait in a long line, but it was worth it to see Father Christmas.  We kept telling Paxton that if he sat on Santa's lap he would give him a candy cane.  He seemed just fine until we walked up to Santa and sat him on his lap.  Paxton started crying and reaching for me to take him back, so I took him back for a minute and asked Santa if he had a candy cane. So Paxton got his candy cane and I put him back on Santa's lap, he still didn't care for it, but the candy cane was distracting enough.  He ate right through the wrapper before I got the chance to open it for him.  He was a sticky mess!

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Santa was asking everyone what we wanted for Christmas.  We had a good time at the Dicken's Festival, I love it there!

To see more pictures, click here.

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Aunt Jamie helped Paxton set up the train around the Christmas tree at my parents house. 

                                                               

 He was so excited!

And then he discovered Grandma's iPad, he LOVES that thing!  Crazy how a one year old knows how to navigate one of those things.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

A few days after Thanksgiving, Paxton helped me decorate the Christmas Trees.  Well I guess I did it and he just played :)  We had some good laughs with this Rudolph nose and we read some Christmas books.

Rem and I had started a tradition of buying a new Christmas book every year (sometimes we buy 2).  So we have 7+ books now.  It's so fun to pull the books out and now have this sweet little boy to read them to.

We taught Paxton the Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer song.  He knows almost all of the repeats through-out the song, his favorite one to say is "like football", he also likes to say "Yipee".  He also likes to sing Jingle Bells.  I start out with Dashing through the snow... and when it gets to the part he says "Jingle bells, Jingle bells all the way"  and then he says "hey" at the end.   It's so fun to watch him learn  new things everyday.  I am so excited for Christmas this year!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

I love the fall time!  There were a few different days that Paxton and played in the leaves.  Every time a raked a pile he would run right through it.  We even sat down in the pile and threw leaves at eachother and covered our legs all the way up.  It's so fun to have a kid and be able to enjoy the fall leaves this way!

For Thanksgiving, we were with my family this year.  We went up to our cabin with my Grandma and some of my cousins.  It was a smaller group this year, but we still had fun.

I am so thankful for this sweet little boy!

My Dad and my uncle carving the turkeys-yes there were 2.  That means leftovers to take home, yum!

I helped my mom decorate the tables.

We made these cute acron cookies (an idea we got from Pinterest).

Paxton hanging out with my cousin Alex... Ipod and Black Friday Ads.

Paxton was scared of Buddy the dog at the beginning, but he soon warmed up to him (at least when he was laying down).  To see more pictures from Thanksgiving, you can click here.

We had a fun and very delicious Thanksgiving!  I am so grateful for such a wonderful family!