Christmas Stockings

Debbie had these cute chubby stockings for her family that I had loved and wanted to replicate them for our own little family.  Even before Jeff and I had started to have kids I found this cute snowman matching material at Walmart and decided to plan ahead and to make some stockings for our future family.

Dennis and Debbie came to visit us right before the Thanksgiving Holiday for the weekend and we were so happy to have them here.  I asked Debbie to help me start the stockings and of course she was more than willing to show me the correct way to sew them.  I was so proud of myself because this was one of the first sewing projects I had accomplished! They turned out so, so very cute.  I even freehanded the names on the sewing machine.  I'm thankful for such a sweet Mother-in-law who didn't hesitate to help me with this project. We had a fun time doing it!

The weekend wouldn't have been complete without a couple of games of Qwirkle!

The finished product! 

Debbie was so sweet and brought me a big can of Starbucks hot chocolate mix because she knew it was my favorite!  Doo Doo and Jeff went to the bike store and I think he found a new toy that he wants!  AnnaB loves spending time with her Papa.  It's so nice having people come to visit us.

Bowling Date Night

We were getting anxious to have a date night and to rekindle our looooove!  Thankfully Celeste Stephens in our ward agreed to babysit you so that Dad and I could go out on a doub date with the Adams. The bowling alley here in Kingman is surprisingly really nice and we had such a fun night with  Scott and Rach!  I have no technique to my bowling, and Jeff always laughs at me how I just end up dropping the ball down the lane.  Regardless of how bad my skillz are we still had such a great time.  If anything we got a lot of laughs from how each of us bowl!  We played 2 games and called it a night.

Halloween 2012

This year I had no costume ideas and I didn't want to buy you an expensive one because they look so cheap!  Of course Rachael Adams came to the rescue and had a witch one. It was so cute and I was able to match with you!  You loved to walk around in your little witch dress but did not like to keep your hat on.

We went trick or treating in Rachael's neighborhood at Walleck Ranch because a lot of the people there decorate their house and give candy out and it's not ghetto there. You didn't' really get the concept of trick or treating yet but had fun walking up to the door! Rach also made us some yummy tortellini soup before we went out and hit the crowds.

We stopped at our ward's trunk or treat party too, it was fun seeing what everyone was dressed up as.

This was at the church trunk or treat, they had games inside you girls could play. 

Rachael and Charlotte Adams.

Your little stubby pig tails are so stinkin' cute! Off to find your broom and go to your witch party! 

You, Michael Moffat, Charlotte Adams, & Olivia Davis

We borrowed Rachael's stroller because we knew it would be easier to push you around 

instead of chasing you around! 

You couldn't understand why people were just handing you free candy, you wanted to open it up right then and eat it! Everyone thought that you were such a cute witch!

Then you would just want to sit there and open all your candy, but there were more houses to stop at!

It was easier to keep you in your stroller and let you reach for the candy instead of getting you in and out! It was such a fun halloween that we were able to celebrate with our Kingman friends! We were sad though that Aunt Meg couldn't host her annual Halloween party since she moved to CA. 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2012!