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!

Playing Catch Up

Yes I know all the way back to Halloween. 

We dressed up as pirates for my Grandma's Annual Halloween Party.  To see more pictures of the party, click here.

Jamie & Dan and my parents all came over on Halloween for dinner and Trick or Treating.  I think my Dad was more excited to go Trick or Treating than Paxton was.

My Dad let us use a bunch of Halloween decor he had from last year, so we decorated our porch all spooky.  We had a fog machine and scary sounds.

And of course... Jack Skellington.

 

The rest of these pictures are all random and out of order...

One day I was doing laundry and I didn't have really any clean clothes for Paxton so I saw this frog costume in his closet and asked him if he wanted to be a frog for the day.  He loved it, he kept hopping around the house saying 'ribbit'.  He even took a nap as a frog, it was so cute.

Paxton likes to try on our shoes.                                                 One day we were working out in the

                                                                                                     backyard and we didn't realize how

                                                                                                     dirty Paxton was getting.  He was

                                                                                                    having a good time!

One night we went to a friends house for dinner and these three boys were so cute together.  They kept getting up from this ledge and switching seats, they thought it was so fun.

I found Paxton and Lilo watching Barney together one day.  It was so cute to see these two together, especially with Paxton petting Lilo.  They are such good buddies.

A couple of weeks ago Paxton got 2 ear infections!  He loved taking his medicine and would keep asking for more, so I would fill it up with water instead.

Paxton all bundled up to go outside with Daddy.                      I love these boys!

Silly smile

Paxton LOVES his Papa!  When Papa is around
that is who he wants the most!

Paxton has had several haircuts but this is the first one we did at the salon.  He did so good sitting there by himself!

It's been a busy couple of months, but we are having fun.  Thanksgiving post to come next... hopefully it will go up before Christmas comes ;)