1 Week til Christmas!!!

Well, just so everyone knows, we will not be into our house by Christmas. It's ok though, it will be soon enough. Probably the first part of January. It saves me a lot of time during this holiday season, so I will be a lot less stressed. Anyway, so this year we decorated my mom's house and the kids loved it. Addison has a harder time staying away from the ornaments than Treyson does. She loves small and cute things. Drives her mom a little crazy at times. Anyway, I just wanted to post some pictures of our decorations and the kids.

This picture was kind of funny cause I wanted the kids to sit on their knees for the picture and so I told Treyson to kneel down like we're saying prayers, so he did. I tried to get him to unfold his arms, but he wouldn't. I thought it was cute though.

This was the only one with the star in it.

My favorite of our 3 nativity sets.

Our ginormous poinsettia plant that our my parents realtor gave us.

Most of our decorations

Silly Treyson!!!

My dads friend came over last week to help him fix something and when he took his boots off, Treyson jumped right into them. He thought he was so cool. He couldn't even walk in them. He is such a silly kid.

My friend Katie and I went to Walmart to do some Christmas shopping and since we each have a little boy, we got one of the carts that have two seats in front of the cart that face each other to help keep them entertained. Well, next thing I knew, I looked over and Treyson was out cold! He kept doing little grins in his sleep and he didn't even wake up when we went out into the snowy parking lot. I just thought it was cute.

We're Buying a House!!!

Spencer and I are buying a house! Well, actually we're buying a duplex. I was going to wait and do a post after we closed, but I can't stop thinking about it and I'm so excited I just wanted to talk about it, or write in this case. We're hoping to be in by Christmas, but that may be pushing it so I keep trying to tell myself it will be by the first of January so I don't get my hopes up so high. We are so excited to have a place of our own. We looked at a lot of houses of all shapes, sizes, and qualities. We finially decided on a duplex. When I say dulpex, I do mean two. We are buying the whole thing and are going to rent out the other side. They are brand new

(it's supposed to be finished this week, but we'll see). It's about 1500 sq. ft. on each side. It's two stories, with 3 bed, 2 bath upstairs and everything else including a half bath is downstairs. I got to go pick out the appliances on Monday and I am so anxious now. The days are going too slowly. We feel so blessed by the way things have worked out. We are only about two blocks away from my parents and we get to stay in the same ward. We really feel that it is where we are meant to be. I am so grateful for my parents sharing their home with us for the past eight months and we love them dearly, but it's time to get back to being our own family. Anyway, I will taking some pictures after our home is all cleaned up and post them.

Thanksgiving Weekend

For Thanksgiving this year we went down to Sunny St. George. It was so nice there. The weather was perfect (excluding Thanksgiving day, it was quite rainy). It was really good to be able to see most of Spencer's family and just enjoy spending time together. I didn't get many pics on this trip, but I wanted to tell a little bit about it. Thanksgiving day was great. We had so many people around that we love and so much to be greatful for. The food was pretty good too, of course. After visiting most of the day my sister-in-law, Subrina and our cousin Jessica talked me into going shopping. I told them I would go to a few places that night with them, but as much as they were begging I said, NO WAY to the black friday stuff. Well, once it was starting to get late they just kept begging and begging me to go, so of course I finally gave in. We shopped all night until 7 AM. I can't believe all the crazy people that do this. It was a mad house everywhere we went. Most of these people aren't nice either. They know what they want and they'll do anything to get it. What a great Chistmas attitude huh? I think everyone forgot completely what Christmas was about. Even though all this craziness was going on it was still a lot of fun. Mostly just because of the people I was with. We had a lot of good laughs and that part made the night worth it. The deals were okay, but it wasn't about that for me. I have a lot of crazy stories about that day, but I've went on enough about that. The rest of the weekend we pretty much just hung out with family enjoying one anothers company. We kept trying to get the kids over to the mall to see Santa while we were there and after two nights of things preventing that from happening we finally made it on Sunday before we had to head home. Kensi and Addison were so excited to finally see Santa and I think Treyson was mostly weirded out, but he at least sat there without crying and managed to tell Santa he wanted Pooh Bear for Christmas. Anyway, that was basically our Thanksgiving.