Christmas Party date night!

Some friends of ours had a christmas party on Friday night. Noah had to work but amazingly they let him off so we were able to go together. We had a blast. We had a gingerbread making contest and played some games. It was so much fun to make the gingerbread house and just be goofy adults for a night. We were with 5 other couples and we really enjoyed their company. We stayed and talked till about 1 in the morning. I think the latest I have been intentially up in a long time. We lost trake of time and just enjoyed ourselves, it was so refreshing. It was funny because we were among friends from church and stayed out till 1 and the next night we went to Noahs work christmas party and stayed for about 2 hours and were home by 10, shows you where our real priorities are and whose company we really enjoy. :O) Thanks guys for having us over. We have not had that much fun out with friends in a long time. And MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Our house, we made it with the Leemans. Courtney and I were supposed to be each others date because both our husbands had to work, but they both wound up getting off so we made the gingerbread house together. That red thing on the roof is santa getting stuck in the chimney (good work Noah and Joe)

All of our houses! The Hills made there gingerbread from scratch, it was pretty amazing.... dark "wood" inside and nice and light on the outside. (wink wink to all those there, you know what I am talking about) the house second closest in the picture won the contest. Good job Ashtons!!! and the one closest in the pictures is a gingerbread "outhouse", very funny!!! It was a blast, I have not made a gingerbread house in like 10 years. :O) Made us come home and make one with Landon, (pictures of that to come)

Just being silly!!

Here is a picture post. Present wrapping, bundling up for the snow, and just being silly. I think the picture explain themselves, enjoy!!!

I can not believe how skinny Braddoc looks in these pictures below and how chubby his cheeks look in the pictures above, so different!!!

Real food..... sort of!

So since Braddoc is under weight I have started feeding him rice cereal and applesauce. HE LOVES it!! I am amazed at how well he does with it and how little mess he makes. With Landon im sure he only got like two bites total out of a whole bowl and with Braddoc Ide say he gets all but about half a bite, he even starts to fuss at me if I am taking to long to get him another bite and he smiles so much when he sees me getting one ready. :O) I took some pictures of him after he ate it to show how clean he was and then in mid smile, mid picture, he spits up about half of what he ate. I was part of the way through feeding him and he was not fussing at me about wanting another bite, so I thought he might be done but was not sure, so I kept feeding him, well I guess he was done. That the only time he has done that in a weeks worth of feeding. He is such a good baby!!! I love that you can see his fuzzy hair in the pictures too. :O)

One of the boys!!

We went to Noahs Young Mens Christmas party and Landon had a blast. He loved being one of the big boys. They had video games going all over the place and he was just mesmerized by all of it. He went from console to console watching the games and cheering for the boys playing. He was so much fun to watch. He was such a sweet boy. They did a white elephant thing and he was just so excited to watch the boys open their presents and then they let him open one and it was a Mickey Mouse, stapler. He loved that it was mickey mouse and went around "stapling" everything. I have no idea how he knew what to do with it, but he did. :O) After that though he thought he could open the presents at home, so needless to say we have had to retape some presents and then just give him some of the ones he got all the way open (only 2 of those). Ahh I cant wait till its christmas and the presents under the tree are not a headache for me watch. :O)

It snowed......

......well sort of. We got a bit of snow flurries here at our house, nothing that stuck, mostly more like rain. We showed Landon and he said, "its raining." So I guess it was a bit wet but it was snow non the less, reminded me a bit of break up in Alaska. They did get lots better snow else were around the valley, and we thought about driving to it, but I did not want to get Braddoc out and get him sick since it is RSV season. So we just stayed around the house and watched the snow fall. I did take Landon out to go shopping after I put Braddoc to bed and we got to run into the store in the snow. Landon loved it!!! He was being so silly saying "AHHHH it get me." and covering his head.

I loved driving in the snow. I loved watching the snow falling and hitting my windshield it was so beautiful and peaceful, I was a bit leary of those driving around me who are not used to wet or snowy weather, but other then that I totally enjoyed driving and just watching the snow fall. I loved looking at the street lights and seeing the flakes falling in the light. I tried to get a picture of it, but the light kept overtaking my pictures and Im not a professional so I had no idea how to make that not happen. But it was simply beautiful. I was driving and found myself overcome with joy and happiness. You know the feeling where a sudder goes through your whole body and you feel warm and cozy, that was the feeling. Man do I miss real snow!!!

It did snow enough in parts of the Valley that they closed schools. So Im sure the kids really enjoyed that. :O) Anyway we sort of got a white christmas. I wish it had stuck more at our house so Landon could have played in it, but Ill take what I can get.