Christmas!!

Here we are on the airport shuttle! Cutie boy!

Playing with a balloon...screw all of those awesome toys he got!

Zander and Will playing so cute!

Sweet little Tylar let Zander follow her around all weekend climbing on her!

Oooohhhhh, I like it!!

Zander and Will once again! Saying CHHHHEEEEESSSE!!

In the spirit of going green...Mitch thought it would be brilliant to use wrapping paper left overs to wrap my gift...pretty cool eh??

When Zander came in the room, it was like a scene from an intervention, he didn't even see his toys, he just thought it was so weird that we were all sitting around staring at him!

The loot!!Enjoying the loot!

This was taken before we left! Once again saying....CHHHHHEEEESSEE!!

Tired of opening gifts!

Thanks grandma and grandpa Johnson, John Deere is the BEESTTT!!

Zander wasn't sure how to open the gifts, so Mitch showed him how to punch it, he punched the rest of his presents...thanks Mitch!After a long week, he konked out, playing with Tuckers cars!! Love this one!

I am still laughing my butt off about this one!

Mitch and I had ever intention to go to the temple tonight, but he couldn't find his recomend at the last second...but while I was getting ready, and putting on my nylons, Zander came in the room, put his hand on my leg and gasped...CUTE MOMMY!!! Then proceeded to beg me to put "toes toes" on him too!! Mitch is furious about these pics, but I am still laughing my butt off!!

GLOVES!!!

This kid goes through the weirdest phases. Lately he wants to wear MY gloves, not his own gloved. So when I came home from work last night, he was most excited to see my gloves!

Blessed Lady

I have had a strange month, and have really found myself getting caught up in all the negative garbage, and maybe not feeling as blessed as I should. But today I really was blessed to see so much positive in my life. I really am surrounded by the best people. I have an amazing family who supports me NO MATTER WHAT. I have a great husband who really puts up with more than any person should ever be asked to put up with. I have the freaking cutest kid on the planet, who, lucky for me is a total mamas boy. I have the best team at the salon. I have a home that I love so much, a great ward, and amazing....amazing friends. So seriously, I am going to buck up, and try harder this month to just enjoy all of the things in that list...and quit focusing on all of the things I don't have(like a skinny butt:|) The Lord has blessed me so much, and I want him to know that I do see it, and I do appreciate it! So, here we go December, we are going to have a better month!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!

I will admit, I am kind of a Christmas decoration junkie! And since we celebrated Thanksgiving on Saturday with the Johnsons, we had the rest of the weekend to put up all of our stuff...that would be two trees at our house, and a tree and a bunch of stuff at the salon...Mitch was super excited about it too...yeah right...but he was good and helped me out a ton!
Here is our new tree. It took two tries to get it decorated since we woke up Friday morning to it laying on the floor with the ornaments all over the place! Isn't she pretty?!?! I bought most of the stuff last year on clearance, and the rest came from the dollar store!!


We set up our family tree in the family room. We have a tradition every year to go out as a family and pick out one ornament. So, this tree is very special to us because it has the very first ornaments I bought our first Christmas as a married couple plus all of the ones we have been given as gifts, and ours that we have picked out together!
Zander was in awe of the whole process, he actually was really good at helping us out! How do you like his Halloween Jammies?? I need to get him some Christmas ones!
Mister man, he is getting so big!!

Our trip to Utah

We went to Utah for the weekend to visit family, and I didn't take one stinking picture, but I did get a few of Zander cold chillin in the car on the ride home!! He was so patient, especially since he stayed awake THE ENTIRE DRIVE...BOTH WAYS! silly boy!

Cast your votes!

Mitch and I can't agree on what color to paint in this room! We need some opinions!

Happy Halloween to ALL!

We had a very eventful weekend! My sister was here with her husband and three kids, and we jam packed our weekend with lots of fun stuff. Our husbands went to the BSU game on saturday, and we took the kids to a Halloween Dance Party that our ward put on in the morning, and then we came home and played and ate, then the boys came home and we trunk or treated it and the boys took the kids trick-or-treating in our subdivision. We are all exhausted, but it was a very fun weekend! Here are a few of the pics!


Zander stopping in the middle of the road to check out his loot! Don't the other kids look so amused!?
I know this one is blurry, but I think it is so cute! My sweet niece Tylar was so good with Zman all weekend long! She said he just wanted to hold her hand the whole time!

Checking out the bright lights! I love this one!

I thought this one was a good action shot...nice job Mitch!

Zander taking a break from the trampoline to eat some Marshmallow Matey's.

And yes, that is a Marshmallow Matey stuck on his face!

My sisters cutie kiddos!

Zander was not having fun at the dance party. Everyone else was dancing and having so much fun, and my child was in the corner pouting the whole time! Precious...grrrr

I finally figured out why he was so mad...he saw the pinata on the way in and wanted it NOW...here he is trying to climb on the stage and get to the pinata.

Mad because he couldn't get to itWith a little help from mommy, he finally go in on the Hokey Pokey.