Christmas and more...

So my laptop died (possibly still fixable) and so I don't have my pictures.  Thank goodness, I have already scrapbooked them.  So to catch up on my blog, here is Christmas...  (from my sisters blog)

The Soderberg Party (my mom's side)

The Moss Christmas Eve Party (my dad's side)

Christmas Morning (at my parent's house)

And I did happen to get one video loaded of Paxton waking up thinking Santa was at our house...

It was so much fun celebrating Christmas with a kid, it brings the magic back!


Then to celebrate the New Year we went to Jamie and Dan's for a Nacho Libre Party with my cousins.  It was so cute to see the kids dressed up!

I started doing these 'chore cards' with Paxton to help him become a little more independent before this baby comes.  He gets stickers for things like, getting un-dressed/dressed, picking up toys, clearing his dishes and anything else I ask him to help with.  It was cute the other day he wanted a sticker and I told him he had to do a chore to get one and all by himself he got the idea, "how about I go clean up my toys".  He is doing so with this, it is so fun seeing him learn to do new things and earn his sucker when he gets a card all filled up!  

January 20

I'm an aunt again!  My sister Jamie just had her first baby, a little girl named Lucy.  She is so precious and I hate that they live 45 minutes away.  I'm pretty sure I could be over there everyday holding her if it weren't for the drive.  This makes me more and more excited to have our little one in May.

When we went to visit them in the hospital, Paxton seemed so excited to see baby Lucy and then we got there and he wanted nothing to do with her.  He didn't want to hold her or get his picture with her, we had to force him as you can see.  But a few days later we went to see her at home and he loved baby Lucy, he held her and even gave her kisses.

I had so much fun helping Jamie out with Lucy's newborn pictures.  We just did them at her house.  I just love holding this little girl, she is so sweet!

Gingerbread House Contest

Another fun year of making gingerbread houses with family and friends!

Dan and Jamie won first place with Shreks House.

 



Ben and Erika got second with Hobbit Ville.

 

We won third with Wreck it Ralph.

We were so excited to have Trev and Sandee and baby Jake here this year all the way from Texas.  They did an awesome Mator from Cars.

 

And our first timers to the party, Brian and Britnie.  They did a great job and made the Coliseum.

 

Our usual judges (our next door neighbors) were out of town this year.  So we called some other neighbors and they felt privileged to come over and judge.  I guess the word has gotten out about our party and our awesome and creative gingerbread houses!  We love this tradition!  Although I feel a little bad about getting a babysitter for Paxton while we play.  I think we will just have to do gingerbread houses the next day with the kids with all the leftover candy. 

Thanks for coming everyone, it was a lot of fun!

Dickens Festival

Back in December we went to the Dickens Festival with my family to go see Santa.  Rem and were so excited because we were announcing to my family the gender of our baby.

 

I was only 17 weeks pregnant and wasn't going to find out the gender until 20 weeks, but I have a friend that does ultrasounds and she was so awesome to do an early one for us!

This was the perfect plan to have Santa help us tell our news.  Rem and I split off from the family and said we were going to check out how long the line was for Santa while they continued looking around and shopping.  We gave the candy canes to Santa and my family had no idea what was coming.

We had our picture taken with Santa and then the lady said Santa you have something special for these people in your bag.  My family looked so confused and didn't really catch on at first when all that was pulled out of the bag was candy canes.  But then they noticed the ultrasound picture tied to the blue candy canes.  "It's a boy!"  They were so excited and surprised, it was awesome!  It worked out perfect!

Baby boy is due on May 15!  We couldn't be more excited and Paxton is so excited to be a big brother!

Then on Sunday we went to the Sorenson's home for Sunday dinner.  We brought cupcakes for dessert that said "SORENSON BABY?"  They had to bite into them to find out what we were having.  They were excited to find out!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Christmas time 2011 & 2012

We are loving this Christmas season!  Watching lots of Christmas movies, learning new songs, reading Christmas books, playing with Paxton's new train, building snowmen and more.   Paxton has loved the story of the Grinch, he has asked me to read the book almost everyday and he's seen the movie a couple of times.  Which has resulted in him stomping around the house saying, "I hate Christmas, I'm the Grinch!"

Being silly with Grandpa.

 

 

Grandpa gave Paxton a train to put around our Christmas tree.  Paxton was so excited to have his dad help him set it up.  He LOVES his train!

 

We had my cousins boy, Sam come over to play.  They had fun playing with the Rudolph noses.

November Happenings

Playing with friend, Raine.  She's so cute, I just want to squish those cheeks!

 

Hugs

 

 

Paxton loves his mittens and likes to give thumbs up when he has them on.

We couldn't wait to get outside with the first snow storm.

We went sledding in the front yard.

Paxton LOVED it!

He loved it so much that he out lasted us.  Rem had to go to work so I stayed out a little while longer, but it was cold!  I watched Pax out the front window for another 5 minutes or so.

 

And then to warm up we had hot chocolate with marshmellows!  Paxton was excited about the marshmellows and wanted more and more and more.

The next day Paxton and Daddy played in the snow again and built 3 snowmen!

 

 

We went FOOD BANK shopping with the family.

Go HERE to see more pictures.

THANKSGIVING DAY with the Sorenson's

 

 

We did visit my family first for a little bit.  And then we went to Sorensons.

 

Liana made this cute veggie turkey.  Everyone helped with dinner and it was delicious!

 

The kids made turkey cupcakes and a very big mess!

                                                                                     Paxton and his cousin Keladry.

Some of us slept

 

and the girls did some crafting.

 

 

October festivities

Paxton and I drove to Logan to go see the PUMPKIN WALK.  We met up with the Stott cousins and even went out to dinner afterwards.  It was a lot of fun to spend some time with cousins that we don't see too often.  The boys enjoyed looking at the pumpkins, Paxton especially enjoyed the Madagascar one.  Cute Keaton was all tuckered out and slept through the whole thing.

 

 Paxton, Kyler and Kaden.

 

Aunt Erika even came towards the end to come say hi.

 HAPPY 28th BIRTHDAY to me!

I can't believe I'm 28!  This was the only picture we took that day, but I had a great day.  Rem had to work so my friend, Bekah had me over for a yummy french toast breakfast and then I stayed over pretty much all day and we just did our digital scrapbooking.  It was a lot of fun!  Then when I got home Rem surprised me with the above: flowers, a sweet letter, and an iphone cover and itunes card to go with my new iphone that I got in the mail that day!  I was so excited!  Then we dropped Paxton off with his Aunt Kelsey and Uncle Randy and Rem and I went out to dinner and a movie.  What a great day!

 

 On the Monday before Halloween my Grandma had her annual HALLOWEEN PARTY.  Most everyone dressed up in costume, even my Grandma did this year!

                     Sydney, Natalie, Alex and Lizzie                            My Grandma                                    

                                   Erika & Ben                                           Me & Jamie

Jamie and I dressed up like Kangaroo's with little Joey's in our pouches since we are both pregnant.



                                                                            

                          The Munnerlyn Family                                       Jamie & Dan

Paxton was our cute little Diego and we were all his animals that he rescued.

 

Loving FALL time!

 We went over to a friends house and the boys had a blast playing in the leaves.

 

And finally.... HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

 It was so much fun taking Paxton out Trick or Treating!  He was so excited to go get candy from everyone.  At first he had a hard time giving candy away to other kids so we had to sit down for a talk.  He was such a pro walking to all the houses, he could've gone all night long!

He loved dressing up as Diego and he got tons of comments on what a cute Diego he made!

 Grandma helped organize the candy.  Paxton was obsessed with the candy, but within a week forgot about it and wasn't asking for it everyday.

 

We loved having Grandpa and Grandma over for dinner and Trick or Treating.  They just adore and love spending time with Paxton!