December Happenings.....so far

I always put my tree and christmas decorations up before thanksgiving. 

Here are a few reasons why.

 1.my decorations are more winter then specifically christmas.

2. I think thanksgiving is part of the holidays.

3.all you people who give me crap are freakin crazy, why do you care so much when i put up MY tree, its none of your freaking business.

as you can tell i get lots of grief for putting my tree up early, i dont care what you think and when YOU want me to put up my tree, its my house my rules and i can if i want, keep your mouth shut. anyways enough about my rant. i wanted to get a picture of my cute new deer head in the corner that i got from target that im madly in love with.

Paisley had her christmas dance concert and she did fabulous. It always amazes people that she gets on stage in front of tons of people and dances and smiles. If you know paisley you know how shy she is and doesnt usually talk to very many people. She really loves dance and i think it will be apart of her life forever. They danced to addicted to love, it was a cute dance. i'm not a huge fan of their costumes this year, i mean shes only 4 this is the only time they get away with cute big tutus and stuff, it was just a black leotard and a jacket, lame especially for $60.00 freaking bucks.

these two have sure grown to love each other, whenever gus gus would try and cuddle with ellie she would get up and walk away now they are always cuddling and its adorable. 

Pax loves to pick up gus gus especially because he was 1 pound, i just have to make sure he sets him down carefully and doesn't just drop him on his head lol now that gus gus is older he knows that kids are kinda rough with him so he  growls every time one of them picks him up, he has even bitten paisley and made her cry, i feel bad for the little guy he really gets sick of being handled all the time, i dont blame him.

We got our first snow storm pretty late this year, we usually always get snow on or before Halloween we actually made it all through October and November without any snow, it was really nice to actually have a fall this year. but when the snow hit it was a MAJOR storm it even snowed in st george. it was a nasty one.

We did a fun girls christmas tea party at my aunt terrys house, this is my dads side of the family. it was fun we had brunch did a craft and a gift exchange.

I got to see my leo baby. He is a mastiff and when his mommy first got him she had to work full time and i babysat him as a baby, i cannot believe how HUGE he is, He is 155 pounds and still a puppy, yikes. This is me literally sitting on him lol

Pictures With Santa

Can you believe the holidays are upon us, crazy how fast they come and go. 

Anyways i was pretty bummed this year because i didnt do christmas cards last year and i really wanted to do them this year but we didnt have the money to get family pictures taken before christmas this year. Well we decided to try and attempt to get pictures with santa and the kids, my kids have NEVER sat on his lap, but paisley totally wanted to this year, she was worried if she didnt tell him what she wanted for christmas she wasnt going to get it. So off to the mall to stand in a huge line waiting to sit on santas lap, As we got closer and closer i started thinking maybe we could all get in the picture and use it for christmas cards. i asked the guy taking the pictures if he would be willing to take two different pictures, he said as long as we bought some they would. Me and greg were in shock when it was our turn and the kids walked right up to him and sat right on his lap smiling, i started screaming take a picture take a picture lol i was so happy they were cooperating and weren't crying!!!! i wished i had thought of it when i was getting ready for the day and dressed a little nicer had i know i was going to be in the picture. but still its a cute picture of our little family on santas lap.

Everybody kinda laughs at paxtons face, but i think its adorable, this is him he is very stoic and doesnt smile much its ok with us because this is our little man and his personality.

Halloween 2013

Halloween always starts off around our house with pumpkin decorating. We would rather just paint and decorate our pumpkins instead of carve them, its much easier and less messy and the kids love it because they can actually do it.

Then my moms side of the family does a Halloween party every year the Sunday before Halloween. We look forward to this more then actual Halloween and trick or treating lol my kids are still little so they would rather play games and eat yummy food.

 Usually the halloween games are geared towards the older kids so i decided to make a game for the little kids to play. I found this cute idea on pinterest you make a ring toss game out of witch hats. It actually wasn't too hard to make and we just used glow rings as the rings.

The little kids really liked and pax played it all night.

 Since pax was a monster this year for halloween i decided to be roz from monster inc. and my costume was really easy thanks to my short hair. I actually won best costume at the halloween party!!!!

 Greg was Willy from duck dynasty.

 Me and my monster.

 Paisley was Merida from brave.

 Tried to get a family photo, not everybody is looking at the camera lol

On Halloween we went over to my parents house first.

The kids were freaking out about all the leaves in my parents front yard, so before trick or treating they got to play in the leaves, i got some really cute pictures.

 It ended with a leaf fight with GG!!!!

My cute little trick or treater's ready to go!!!

Now you think by this photo the night went well, but it didnt. I hate on holidays that we have to tote are kids around to go visit all the grandma and grandpas, and then all the aunt and uncles want us to stop by, it makes for some VERY grumpy kids. Greg's family likes us to go trick or treating with his siblings and their kids, but my kids are so MELLOW and aren't really the trick or treating type, but we tried and half way through pax had a HUGE meltdown and was done, in fact i was ready to be done too. So we packed them home and in bed by 8 and we didn't get to go see all the aunt and uncles but its ok because trick or treating is not meant for little kids they just don't care, lesson learned this year. 

San Diego days 4&5

Day 4 we pretty much just hung out, me and my sis wanted to check out all the shops by us so we shopped until we dropped. Paisley and the guys were at the beach ALL day and the boys boogie boarded, i have no pictures because i was not there, and they are dumb and don't take pictures. Pax pretty much slept all day, he was so tired.

This was the only picture i have from day 4, me on the balcony of our condo.

I miss that view.

Day 5 we went to the San Diego zoo, of course our days never go without some sort of drama in our family and poor paisley started throwing up in the car on the way to the zoo, i was SO worried we were going to have to turn around and go back, but she just said daddy was making her tummy hurt. Greg was lost and was making the poor girl car sick. thank goodness just car sick and not a stomach bug.

I was not in the mood for ALL the walking we were about to do, i had no idea how HUGE there zoo is, and you better believed everybody heard lots of whining from me and my kids, i personally am not a fan of this zoo i like salt lakes zoo just fine. I think my kids were so vacationed out at this point that this day didn't go very well and we tried to go to dinner after and the kids weren't having it and poor Greg had to leave dinner and go back to the condo. I must admit for all the lack of sleep and all the running around all day my kids did VERY good.

 The ONLY animal i enjoyed seeing was the cute panda bears.

San Diego day 2&3

Day 2 we went to Belmont park which was just a few blocks down from where we were staying. They had a fair going on so the kids did some rides, and we ate ice cream and wondered around.

 kids on the merry go round.

 The kids on the boat ride.

 Pax loving the ice cream.

 Love this picture of all my boys, too bad my brother couldn't make it.

My cute mom and dad

Day 3 we went to sea world. We all LOVED it and stayed until it closed.

 Both kids were asleep by the time we got back to the condo.

They got to meet elmo and zoey and the both LOVED it, we even paid for the expensive pictures they take because none of us could believe they weren't totally freaking out. my kids will not go NEAR Santa or the Easter bunny lol