Christmas 2012

The Christmas fun continues at our house and I must say I really loved every day of December. I am sad that it is over and now since Christmas is gone I am ready to move on to summer time!! I wish I could just skip January and February, they are not my favorite!! Anyways, we really did love the Christmas season and here are the rest of the pictures to proof it!:)

Here is Peyton and I enjoying our nightly ritual. GG recorded a Christmas book for Peyton that she gave to him before Thanksgiving. He loved it so much and we seriously read it AT LEAST once a day everyday until Christmas! He loved it and still asks for it but I put it away with the Christmas decorations so we can enjoy it next year.

For Christmas we were with my family this year and it was WONDERFUL!  I loved every minute of it! All of my brothers and sisters were home and it was so nice to relax and all enjoy being together for a few days. Mikkel got all of us girls these super cute "flirty" aprons. We all felt like Santa's little helpers.

Sweet baby Tenley is the cutest little helper though. She needed a cute little apron too. 

We all love out little Tenny:)

All the kids looking cute around the tree.

Tavin and Peyton looking at The Night Before Christmas.

Peyton was excited to participate in our annual Nativity. He was a shepherd and he was the cutest little shepherd if you ask me:)

Shaye made a grand entrance when he decided he'd be the donkey and even gave Emily (Mary) a ride in to the stable on his back. Now that is a good donkey:)

He took his role very seriously and gave a great performance, good job sweetheart!!

Peyton was a great little shepherd and was doing so good. He even went and found a little figurine of baby Jesus from one of the little Nativities my mom had and put him in the manger. So when they put Tenley in the manger Peyton was not happy, she was sitting on baby Jesus! He kept saying, "Tenny, get out!" Haha this boy is to much some times.

Peyton and Dad, the stars of the show for me.

Peyton and Tavin helping to hold up the star. Good thing Great Grandma Brown happen to have two of them, she is so good at keeping all the kids happy:)

The whole cast except it looks like I kind of cut Brandon out on the side, oops sorry:)

These boys were so silly and having so much fun playing and running around. They loved the snowman nightlight in the hallway. They turned that off and on about a hundred times for sure.

Christmas jammies!!!

And the night wouldn't be complete without some wrestling times with Gramps to get them good and tired out. They loved it and kept asking him for more!

Look who found Santa's cookies!!! She was loving it, she took a bite or two out of each one with a big smile on her face!:)

Finally Christmas morning was here!! Peyton was pretty excited to find that Santa had brought him a Dinosaur Train!! Dinosaur Train is his favorite little show to watch so we knew he would love to have his own train. It was a big hit, Santa made a good choice:) 

Peyton and Dad checking out his stocking. I had to quickly hide all of the treats before he went crazy and ate it all!

Tavin showing Peyton his cool shark!

It was a wonderful day! I don't know why I stopped taking pictures but we also enjoyed a nice Christmas day dinner and more family fun. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!!

Pre-Christmas

Peyton loved Christmas time this year. It was so fun to see his excitement for everything. He loved all the decorations, especially Christmas trees and Christmas light around town. As we drove around town he would yell out "Christmas lights!!" every time he saw them. He also loved this house near ours that had a big tree in there front yard that they put lots of big Christmas decorations on. Every time we drove by it he would yell out, "HUGE Christmas tree mom!!" I loved it, it made be smile and laugh every time! I have always loved Christmas but this Peyton made me love it even more. 

Peyton, Tavin and Trajen helped me put together the Christmas train for the tree. They loved it so much, they especially loved making a bridge over the track as it ran by.

We had early Christmas at our house with Shaye's mom and family. We had a good time enjoying a nice dinner out and coming back to exchange gifts.

It was pretty hilarious to watch Peyton that night. He didn't know what to do with all of these presents! He was literally spinning in circles not know what to do next!

He loved all of his presents and is really getting the hang of things when it comes to present opening.

We are just getting started with the Christmas fun!!!

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving this year. The seemed kind of rushed since we had to get back to Cedar because Shaye was on call for work that evening but that didn't stop us from having some great family time with lots of great food!! This year was Thanksgiving with Shaye side of the family and we made all the rounds. It was a wonderful day and we have so very much to be thankful for!!

Here we all are enjoying dinner at Monica's house. Peyton loved being at the big table, I think he maybe ate a roll. Too busy playing around:)

Peyton actually wasn't feeling so good that day. After our delicious dinner him and Jenn cuddle up and watched a little Dinosaur Train on the phone.

Over the weekend Shaye participated in the annual alumni basketball tounament. He had a lot of fun and won some and lost some games. 

Funs times with Papa and Grandma Kelly watching the basketball games.

We went to the light parade in Kanab and Peyton loved seeing all the lights and fun floats decorated in lights.

I don't know how these pictures got out of order but these are the rest of the pictures from Thanksgiving day. Playing trucks and tractors at Grandma Monica's.

Peyton loves playing with his GG! So glad we got to see her for the holiday.

Going for a ride with Great Grandpa Frank in the razor. Peyton thought this was pretty cool.

Then he got to feed Lucy the pig with Papa. I couldn't believe this pig could jump up like this to grab this apple.

Peyton loved throwing the apples into her.

We tried to take a couple family pictures with the Christmas tree. We are loving getting ready for the Christmas season!!

And this is what I have to deal with living with these two boys. Taking pictures is not an easy task! But I love these two no matter what!!

November Overview

Here is a brief overview of some of the happenings in November for us. I had a bunch of other pictures to add to this but blogger informed me that I am out of storage and I can't upload any more pictures. That is no good, so for now this will have to do. We had some sad moments at the first of the month with our next door neighbors and wonderful friends the Jensen's moving away. We were so so sad and the last time Kinley came over to play we had to take a bunch of pictures to remember her by. Hopefully they will get to move back someday so Peyton and Kinley can be best friends again.

They were just so darn cute together. Every time Peyton hears someone knock on the door he still say's "Kinley?" every time:) 

Loving a little ring-around-the-rosies. 

Peyton went in for the kiss but Kinley wasn't having it. Better luck next time:)

We went down to Las Vegas for some fun times with GG and a day at the air show. Peyton and GG found a good spot to take a rest and try out the message chairs. Peyton actually quite liked it.

This cutie ready for a fun day at the air show!!

Unfortunately it was a little cold and windy so this is how he ended up:)

We did see a few of the airplanes and Peyt loved it. He especially like the helicopters and is still talking about them.

Can you see a person hiding behind that chair? Yep that is GG, she was freezing!! So she set up camp behind that chair to block the wind. Her Las Vegas blood couldn't handle the cold. We love you GG, thanks for putting up with us!!

I sure love when I get to spent time with my family!! Love them!!

Family Camp Out

We went on a fun little family camp out a few weeks ago up to Panguitch Lake. We went with a couple other families and we had a great time. We all slept in a camper trailer together which could have been disastrous but turned out quick well. I thought for sure I would end up sleeping in the truck with Peyton but he did awesome and slept all night. Myself on the other hand did not fall asleep once I don't think...it was a very long night, but I was just glad that Peyton slept well. The kids had fun playing in the dirt gathering sticks for the fire. We did a little fishing and the guys did a little hunting. All in all it was a great time and fun to get out in the hills one more time before it gets too cold!

Peyton and the fish Daddy caught. He gets so excited when Dad catches a fish but he gets so sad everyone time he throws them back.

It was pretty difficult to get a good picture of these three boys they weren't really interested in having a photo shoot. But they were making us laugh and they looked too cute in there matching orange hats for the hunt.

Nixon Johnson, Trace Quarnberg and Peyton.

This was the beautiful sunset we enjoyed on our way home. We love the beautiful area we live in!!!