Decorating

We have had so much fun this week decorating everything. I just love the organizing and cleaning that goes along with putting up new decorations. Some things we have had to leave put away or we have had to put up high with Ryan but it has been fun to watch him get involved in the whole process as well. I love this time of year!

These are fun Hallmark singing decorations that Daniel's Mom has given to us every year we have been married. Ryan knows how to turn them on and loves to dance to the music.

Here is Christian dancing and singing to the music. He was really into it!
We had to put up all the ball ornaments because Ryan used them as golf balls!

Thanksgiving Weekend

We had the most amazing weekend. Everyday was incredible and was spent with Family and Friends. I feel so grateful that things went so well and to show how great it was I have no pictures to show for it. On Thursday Dan and Christian got to play in our wards Turkey Football game and they had a great time and played for over two hours. Then we got dressed up and went and took our Family Christmas pictures. I just got the pictures today and I am so excited how they turned out. We then went to my parents house and spent the day looking at the Ads for Black Friday, playing fun games and of course eating. The food was really great and I was lucky enough to not throw up, which was a great part of the day. After dinner Dan and I were able to go out with our friends to see the Twilight movie. I have read the books, Dan didn't but said he would see the movie with me. Well it turns out that he loved the movie and now wants to read the books. I thought the movie was good, not as good as the books of course but still good. After the movie we sat in front of our house talking with our friends until about 11:30 which is really late but was so nice. We owe a big thanks to my Mom for watching the boys so that we could have such a great night. Well my Mom ended up spending the night since we got up at 3 am to hit the stores for some shopping. My sister met us and we hit Kohl's, Toys R Us and JcPenny's with no problem walking in getting what we wanted and not waiting in to long of lines but that all changed when we hit Wal-Mart. We had done three stores before 6 am and that is when we went to Wal-Mart, they did not do a very good job in making things easy and convenient and after fighting over some cheap PJ's we decided that we needed a break. So we went to Breakfast and then continued our shopping day. It was so nice to be with my sister and mom with out all the interruptions the kids usually have. We thank our Husbands very much for letting us shop for 12 hours with out the kids. It was totally exhausting but so worth it. Saturday my family came over to enjoy the Turkey soup Dan made that was so delicious we had to share with everyone. To end the weekend we went to my niece Madison's first birthday party and had a good time. The only bad part of the weekend was that with all the excitement of everything Ryan didn't get the naps or bedtime he usually has so he now thinks he doesn't need naps and he can stay up till 9 when he usually goes to bed at 7, hopefully this will not last long. I really have so much to be thankful for and this weekend just seemed to prove to me that although things aren't always perfect I really do have a great life.

Cute

I got this today from a friend and thought it was cute.

May your stuffing be tasty

May your turkey plump

May your potatoes and gravy

Have never a lump.

May your yams be delicious

And your pies take the prize

And may your Thanksgiving dinner

Stay off your thighs!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Visitor

Last night we had a special visitor, THE TOOTH FAIRY. Yesterday at church Christian was eating a pretzel and his tooth started bleeding so I took him to the bathroom and his tooth just popped out. We didn't even know that it was loose (Christian said it had been wiggling for about a week he just didn't tell us). The Tooth Fairy brings toys to our house so luckily we had done some early Christmas shopping since it was Sunday and we couldn't go to the store. Christian was so excited for what the tooth fairy brought him he woke up around 11 to come in and show us what he had gotten. This is Christian's 10th tooth that has fallen out how many do kids loose?

When we got home from church he quickly got his Tooth Fairy Pillow and put his tooth in there and under his pillow so he wouldn't forget later.

Here he is this morning with the two cars he got from the Tooth Fairy!

Homework

Like I said a few post ago Ryan loves to do anything Christian is doing. Well lately he has been wanting to do Homework while Christian is doing his. I love it!

Football Playoffs

Well today was Christian's Football Playoffs, it was elimination type games where the winners moved on and if you didn't win you were out. So Christian's team did really great in the first game and won so they moved on to play the #1 team in the afternoon. Unfortunately, they lost that game but it still was a really great season and Christian was very upset to have Football be over. Since the weather has been so warm here in California, his coach decided to have a pool party instead of a pizza party. They kids had a great time playing and then they received their trophies. It was a really great day and we are so proud of Christian and how he improved over the season.

JOYS OF LIVING IN CHINO

So we don't have a screen door on the back door of our house and yesterday Ryan and Christian wanted to play in the back yard and since I was busy doing things I left the door open so I could hear Ryan. Well that was a big mistake because when Dan came home he noticed that the ceiling and wall in the family room were covered with flies. I had been so busy I didn't even notice them. There had to be at least 30 flies on the walls and ceiling. Now in my defense the boys were only outside for 10 maybe 15 minutes so it wasn't like I left the door open for hours but unfortunately this time of year the flies are terrible in Chino. Dan hates flies and was so mad at me and spent at least 30 minutes running around swatting them (Ryan loved it). It was really crazy and then of course for the rest of the night he kept complaining about the flies. I told him to buy me a screen door for Christmas and this wouldn't happen again!

I know that these pictures only show a couple of flies but they were seriously everywhere.