What we've been up to this month!

December has been really busy! The first week in December Paul surprised me and brought home a Christmas tree! He ditched the rest of his classes, stayed home and we decorated for Christmas! Here is our tree!

On the back of our chairs in the dining room, I have wreaths with ribbon and ornaments! I must say...Love them!

This is the first year we've lived somewhere that has a good spot for stockings! The only bad part....I have fake popcorn, berries, and candy canes on the garland....Landon tries to eat them when he's hanging out on the stairs! Silly boy!

Dining room shelves decorated for Christmas.

The first weekend in December, we took Landon to St Judes Children's ranch. There were all kinds of Christmas festivities and the money went to the organization. They had a Santa Claus there....it didn't go well!

Landon has an OBSESSION with horses! It's kind of hard to see in this picture, but here is Landon riding a little horse....he will sit on a horse and try to ride it...no matter what the size of it!

Landon also started wearing Daddy's stethoscope as a new accessory! Does this mean he wants to follow in Daddy's footsteps? We got him a Dr set for Christmas...we are excited to see his reaction when he gets his very own stethoscope to wear!

Attempt #2 with Santa...not good! This was at our ward Christmas party.

Landon got a hair cut from his Aunt Havy this month...at first his hair was just going to get a trim...well he moved around way to much and it turned into a BAD bowl cut! So....all of the hair came off =( It saddened me. And apparently it saddened him!

My mom and i took Landon to a little carnival on Water Street...here is Landon happy as can be on a horse!

There was a petting zoo as well...they had a 20 inch tall pony! Landon followed it around everywhere!

This month we also went to a super fun Christmas party! There were babysitters upstairs watching the kiddos, so we didn't have to! They had all kinds of crafts and goodies for the kids! Landon made a gingerbread house...with lots of assistance I'm sure....

and he made this ornament!

The same night of the Christmas party, which was a week ago from today, we left and went to Arizona to visit Paul's family. We got into town at 5:30 am! Crazy! We did lots of fun things on our trip there. We took Landon to Cabella's to look at animals...he loved it...he loves animals!

We also went to a house that had a petting Zoo in their back yard! This is Landon when we first got there with the ducks!

Aren't these the cutest goats you've ever seen???

Here's Landon and me with the horses! There were so many animals there....ponies, little donkey's, ducks, goats, pigs, lambs, sheep. Paul got to milk a goat...and I got to bottle feed a lamb! It was so cute watching the little lamb drink from a bottle!

Family picture in front of some hay!

We also went to the Mesa Temple to see the Christmas lights! Right when we drove up to the Temple, Landon said "Temple" it was so precious...usually when he sees a temple, he says "Jesus," but this time he said "Temple."

After the Temple, Paul let Landon sit in the drivers seat of his truck...this excites Landon!

We did Christmas early with Paul's mom, sister and her boyfriend. Here is Landon opening some of his gifts! He got some cute cars pillow books! He loves these! he also got some Lego's which he really loves!

Aunt Havy also got him this really cute beanie at Janie and Jack...there's also a matching shirt!

Paul's mom got Landon this igloo looking tent and train set! We set up his tent and new toys and he had fun for hours!

The day after we got home from AZ, Paul, Landon, my brother, my Mom, and Me went to Build-A-Bear. My mom wanted to take Landon there for his final Christmas gift...we thought it would be more fun if he got to pick out his animal himself. I really wanted him to pick the dog...there were so many cute and fun accessories for the dog...but the second Landon saw the horse...the dog didn't matter! I spent many minutes trying to convince him to get the dog! It didn't work! here's my brother Ross and Landon with his horse before getting it stuffed!

Stuffing the horse...Landon had a hard time letting it go long enough to get the horse stuffed!

Here's Landon giving his horse a bath!

Us getting the horse dressed...there weren't really many horse things to choose from, so he has a saddle, bridle, and a bandanna.

...And of course he had to take a ride on the horse...the whole store was watching him ride his horse! It was cute!

Us getting the horse named...his name is Horsie...Landon isn't really at the age yet where he names things...we figured Horsie is what he'd be calling it, so Horsie it is!

Here's the family after a fun time at build a bear =) Thanks mom for taking us!

This month has been fun! There's still another week of fun up ahead...especially with Christmas tomorrow! I can't wait to see Landon's face light up!

What we were up to in November

November was a busy and fun month for us! We had family in town, went to the Air Show, Saw the long awaited movie...New Moon, a bachlorette party, booming sales on my etsy site, Thanksgiving, and my best friend got married! Here are just a few of the many pics I took of our different events in November.

Here's us at the Air Show...it was so cold and windy!!! Paul dressed Landon that day...and he put him in pants that were a little to small on him! Haha!

Landon and a sweet gun...Paul would know what it's called, but I don't!

Here's us at New Moon! I'm so lucky...I got my hubby to go with me! He actually liked it! I thought it was a great movie...plus I read all of the twilight books before New Moon came out! This is huge for me because I hate reading, and I found myself really addicted to the Twilight books! This pic is a little fuzzy, there wasn't the best lighting, and we took it in my phone! The highlight of the movie....Jacob took his shirt off and Paul said really loud over the screaming ladies "Team Jacob." Haha! I've got my Team Edward gear on!

The night after seeing New moon was my best friends bachlorette party! It was lots of fun hanging out with the girl. It was at Toby Keith's bar and grill...we ate food and danced...well I tried to dance..I could do one of the line dances at least!

We spent Thanksgiving day relaxing at my mom's and of course eating yummy food! This is the only pic I took of the 3 of us at her house.

The day after Thanksgiving, I helped Tiffany...my bestie, and her family decorate for her wedding. It took a long time but turned out great! Then on Saturday was the wedding! Here is Tiffany and johnny coming out of the Temple as Newly Weds!

Tiff and her bridesmaids

Landon and Me at the reception...Landon had a great time at the reception...there was a candy bar and we let him eat from it...and he learned houw to break it down on the dance floor...I wish I got video of that!

So....here's what we did in a nutshell in November!

Halloween Festivities and Halloween

Our Halloween was really fun this year! The week of Halloween Paul had exams so he spent that time locked in our room studying! A week before Halloween I dressed Landon up in his Pirate costume and took him to the pumpkin patch with my mom, My goal was to get some really good Halloween pics of him, but I could not get him to stay still!

Here is Landon in his costume! He absolutely hated the eye patch and took it off immediately, along with the clip on pirate earring! Haha! So this isn't the greatest pic, but it has most of the pirate effect I was going for!

Here he is in his costume at the pumpkin patch. This was the best pic I got of him, but I think it's pretty adorable!

There was a petting Zoo at the pumpkin patch, so we went into that. He had so much fun and he knows the sounds that all of the animals make so he kept saying, "baa, duck, duck, cocka, cocka, bunny, baa, duck." It was so cute! Next to the petting Zoo were ponies, so of course we had to let him ride the pony!

The next day was Saturday, the week before Halloween, and a few days away from Paul's big exams. I got him to take a few hours off so we could go to a Halloween party! Our friends Kyle and Janelle throw one every year, and every year we couldn't go because of exams or something! So we finally went this year! We had to throw together last minute costumes, as it was a costume party...so Paul was a Dr, and I was a nurse! Haha, how original, seeing as how Paul will be called Dr. in 2.5 years! We had a great time and it was good to see friends from our old ward!

The night before Halloween, we went back to the pumpkin patch, and Paul was with us since exams were over! Here's Landon at the petting zoo, this time he was really fond of the bunnies...he even pet them!

After the petting Zoo, Landon rode the pony again, and of course loved it! He kept saying, "horse, horse," the whole time he was on it! Here's a family pic! I look kinda gross so I honestly don't know why I posted this pic!

The next morning, Halloween, we started off by going to the park. Paul had a flag football game. Landon of course didn't want to sit still and watch, so we went on the playground. After the game we came home, got lunch and put Landon down for a nap.

When he woke up we went here....

Our friend told us it was decorated for Halloween, and Paul has never been to the shark reef and we knew Landon would love it, so we got him dressed up and took him. This is our family pic before we went in.

Landon looking at the sting rays, he was kind of mad that he couldn't reach them to pet them.

Here's us in front of fish, except it was dark, and the flash on the glass....makes for not being able to see the fish! Landon really enjoyed watching all of the fish swimming around.

After shark reef, we came home, ate dinner then went to my mom's house so we could go trick or treating! Landon was so cute trick or treating. We would pick him up so he could ring the door bell, then we'd put him on the ground, and when someone would answer and open the door, Landon would run right into their house! It was so funny! He had a lot of fun though!

Here he is before running into the house, I never got pics of him actually running in because we had to get him out! Haha!

After trick or treating, we met up with our friends Kim and Nate, and went to Kim's parent's wards trunk or treat. After that we went to Kim's parents house for the remainder of the Halloween party that her mom threw. Her house was decorated so cute, we played a few games, roasted marshmallows, and ate good food! Landon jumped around on the trampoline at their house and had a blast...he kept saying, "jump, jump," and would signal Ireland, Kim and Nate's little girl to come jump with him! I wish I got pics or video of that because it was really cute! When the party was over we went and did some grocery shopping before it was Sunday. we were out in the parking lot talking with our friends, when suddenly, Nate just drove off. We turned and looked, and saw a teenager run out of the grocery store with a case of beer. So we got in our car, and between Kim and Nate, and Us, we had him caught! The kid got in dropped off the beer and got into a car. We followed the car to where they were going to retrieve the beer, and Paul grabbed it and got their license plate #, and the cops were called and the beer was returned. That's how our Halloween night ended! The End!