Christmas Tag

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper
2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial, but I would LOVE a real one this year
3. When do you put up the tree? Not until December
4.When do you take the tree down? I don't know, its probably up longer than it should but casey loves the lights, they are so relaxing to him.
5. Do you like egg nog? HELL YEAH!!!!! and Egg nog ice cream
6. Favorite gift received as a child? My little red car I got when for christmas when I was 16
7. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes, a beautiful Willow Tree set.
8.Hardest person to buy for? This year it would have to be Uncle Chad A. I have no idea what to get him...... HELP!
9. Easiest person to buy for? Casey and my kids
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail
11.Worst Christmas gift you ever received: I can't really think of any.....
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? ELF!!
13.Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes
14. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Aunt Teresa's mush on christmas morning
15.Clear lights or colored on the tree? Mine are clear and blue mixed
16. Favorite Christmas song? Where Are You Christmas by Faith Hill and Martina's McBrides cd
17. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Travel
18. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? yep
19. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning
20. Most annoying thing about this time of year? I HATE SNOW!!!!!!!!
21. Favorite ornament theme or color? We have a Los Angeles Dodgers theme on our tree, blue white and some silver
22. Favorite food for Christmas dinner? Honey Baked ham and Mashed Potatoes
23. What do you want for Christmas this year? Clothes, decorations for my bedroom, and for my wedding ring to be fixed somehow(I've all of a sudden become allergic to it)
24. What is you favorite Christmas tradition or traditions? Christmas Eve Pj's, How My father in law makes us walk down the stairs one at a time from youngest to oldest before we can see the presents
25. What do you like and dislike about Christmas? I love spending so much time with my family, and like I said before I hate the snow!

This was fun(thanks Ab) I tag everyone who wants to do it

The PARTY!!!!

We had a birthday party with my Evans side, I'm glad that everyone could be there to help celebrate. I had big plans to make a cute camoflauge cake but I could not find the right frosting anywhere! So i gave up and just went to buy him one from walmart but there was literally not a single boy cake so I settled for what I believe is the worlds ugliest birthday cake ever!! Oh well, Koy devoured it and didn't know the difference. Koy didn't have any interest in his candles so his oh-sohelpful sister stepped up and helped him out. The next night when we had the Grover family party and My sis-in-law Megan had made him a CAMO cake, but guess whose camera was dead.... yep.... mine. So no pics of that party, but the cake was darling! Thanks Meg. We also took the kids to jumpin jacks(still a dead camera) and I think I had just as much playing on the slides as they did. I am a wimp so little kiddies blow up sides are the perfect amusement park attraction. So sad the first year is done but boy is being a mom fun!

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT.....

My baby turned one year old on November 14th. It was such a bittersweet day for me. I love his little personality but I just want him to be my baby longer.

Another Photo Shoot

We went to have McKoys 1 year pics taken and Caselyn didn't want to be left out so here is my princess. She is getting so much better at having her pictures taken.

And then the Carving

After we got home from the patch we carved the pumpkins, I carved the Cinderella, Casey 'helped' Caselyn carve Tinkerbell, and my sister in law Ashley carved Jack skellington and oogey boogey from nightmare before christmas. She is very talented. It took about a half hour for Caselyn to let us carve hers, she did not want us to cut it and break it, and then it took about 20 more minutes to get her to stick her hand and get the seeds out, she didn't like that very much. She is super OCD about having clean hands and feet. I keep some of that foam antibacterial stuff in my purse and she will always ask me if she can have some to kill the 'inbisadle' germs. And that concludes our halloween adventures. Can't wait for next year!

Pumpkin Patch

The kids and I went to the pumpkin patch at the Big Red Barn in santaquin with my mother and sister in law(I did remember my camera this time) After we had each picked out our pumpkins Koy wanted to hold one on his lap and try to eat it on the ride back. We also had some delicious pumpkin pie ice cream with real pieces of pie crust(simply amazing) Casey didn't come because it was the last night of the rifle hunt, his younger brother Cory went with him and ended up shooting a huge 8 inch wide 2 point, it might be the smallest buck I've ever seen but it was the only buck he had seen on all three hunts so he took it. So congrats to Cory and I can't wait to eat a big delicious deer roast for sunday dinner.

Its about time!

I kind of suck at blogging lately, so I'm finally putting our halloween pictures up. I also suck at remembering my camera, so these are pics of when we got home from trick-or-treating after the kids were tired and ready to be out of their costumes, and after koy ate a sucker so his is a little dirty, thats ok though, I don't think ogres are known for their cleanliness. I did remember to take my camera up for our tradition of trunk or treating at my Grandma Linda's church. So here are some of my cousins..... Boston is the chicken, Britlee is Alice, brennae is the rabbit, Bryson and Briggs are tweedle dee and tweedle dum.