Logan is a genius. The kids want to jump when it's cold outside, but that's not all that fun for me since I'm pregnant and "not supposed" to jump on a trampoline, so I would get cold. Logan masterminded a plan to take the electric blanket outside. Genius!
Merit graduated to a new carseat after Christmas. I've been agonizing about it for a while, I want one just like Chapter's but they don't sell that model anymore. I ended up going with the new version, because I do love Chap's so much, but honestly, all the things they did to improve it just annoy me. I guess I'm getting old and stuck in my ways:)
She likes it though, and it's a really pretty and girly seat!
As per tradition, we went out to eat with Logan's family on Christmas Eve (to George's Corner again) and then drove to look at Christmas lights.
Our kids are young, they aren't old enough to be so excited to wake up super early on Christmas and drive us crazy. Christmas morning started bright and early with Grandpa knocking on the door. I was not very happy, but what do you do? We decided to ignore him, but eventually the knocking woke Merit up and we had to get up and let him and Shirley in and go wake up Chapter.
The kids got what they asked Santa for.
Chap: a Camelbak backpack just like the one he saw at REI and a dog pillow.
Mer: a Little People doll house and a cat pillow.
They got spoiled as usual, and even got a trampoline this year! That was a Black Friday adventure:)
But overall, a good time was had by all and we even made it to church!
Merit made her first snowman at my mom's the weekend before Christmas. It was a pretty good time, Chap liked eating snow, which freaked me out, but oh well, he hasn't died yet:)
As usual, I am bad at taking pictures of my own life events, but I turned 29 on Dec. 9 this year. It was fun because it was on a Friday, and Logan gets off early on Friday's, but it was also the ward party and he had to cook :( Chapter also guilted Kristy into ordering me a birthday cake since I didn't have one. And that, is the only picture I have...
The leaves finally came down on Dec. 5, it took forever this year! As usual, we raked them up into Logan's truck and fed them to Grandpa's cows.
We went to Sevier County for Thanksgiving, and while we were there we went to cut a Christmas tree with Justin and his fiance's family. I was negligent and didn't pack snow clothes for the kids and it was pretty cold, but luckily Logan found a great "corner" tree pretty quickly and it was a memorable time.
We went to Vegas with Anisa's family to take their family pictures and have a little fun. She wanted them taken at a place called 7 Magic Mountains just outside of Vegas near Jean, Nevada. We stayed at the Goldstrike in Jean and it was super sketch. Bad. Ugh. Just thinking about it makes me shudder. But catching happy hour at Hash House a Go-Go was fun. You can get a bucket of chicken tenders and fries for only $5! And the 7 Magic Mountains were pretty cool.
I learned a couple things this Halloween.
#1: You don't do the face painting at the ward carnival. They got paint on Merit's costume and I ended up staying up the night before Halloween and redoing 1/3 of her candy corn, and of course, it was the hard 1/3.
#2: You absolutely take pictures in the morning instead of right before trick or treating. With little kids, they are all worn out by the time 5:30 rolls around, and you are wasting precious daylight with the pictures.
This year Chap wanted to trick or treat at Daddy's office, so Logan took candy and passed it out before we came and the kids loved it! Anisa also invited us to trick or treat at her school and it was AWESOME! The kids got so much candy and had so much fun. The best thing about this was the kids were dressed up in the morning and I took their pictures. They turned out priceless! So much better than in years past.
We drove up over Chapter's fall break from preschool to go to the pumpkin patch in my hometown. Unfortunately, Daddy didn't come with us, but we had a good time anyway.
All Chapter really wanted for his birthday this year was to go bowling with his cousins and a Pokemon cake. And we made that happen. And it was AWESOME being able to haul 7 kids to Fiesta Fun all by myself in the van:) Chap is blurry in most of the pictures, which is fine, because I want to remember him like he was, so excited he was bouncing all over the place!
