Getting Ready for Christmas

About a month ago we started getting ready for Christmas. Here are a few pictures to walk you through it.

It's a good thing there was snow for Thanksgiving because I don't know if there will be enough for Josh to play in for Christmas. He loves playing in the snow!

We unpacked the Christmas containers to start decorating the house and found the elf hats. I LOVE this picture. I have 3 cute elfs working in my house!!

Josh was so excited to help decorate the tree. He helped put on ornaments which, thankfully, don't break when dropped on the tile. If you look closely you'll notice the bottom of the tree is very ornament heavy. We had to move a few around after Josh went to bed.

Josh and Aiden were able to visit Santa after the movie that Grandpa Boehme's work holds in the movie theater. Josh was excited but nervous to sit on Santa's lap so Aiden went first to show Josh how nice Santa was.

After Aiden, Josh climbed right on Santa's knee, looked at the camera and grinned. Too bad Santa wasn't looking! Josh couldn't come up with anything to tell Santa he wanted for Christmas but was pretty excited to sit on his lap once his little brother showed him the way.

Hopefully I can post Christmas pictures sometime before Valentine's Day! Merry Christmas to you all!!

Yellowstone Vacation

We went on a short family vacation to Yellowstone during the middle of October (3 days, 2 nights). We all had a really good time! Our first stop of the trip was Old Faithful....a good introduction for Josh into geysers. We saw a lot of them and Josh was fascinated. Suffice it so say he is still talking about seeing the geysers.

The next morning we got up early and headed out for some driving/hiking. Poor Aiden wasn't moving and got a bit chilled. He was a good sport but look at how red his little face is!

I thought this was a lovely picture from our stop at Mammoth.

Josh was this happy nearly the entire trip. He was pretty good for having to ride in the car so much and he never wanted to go back to the hotel. He wanted to see more geysers (although he did not appreciate the steam from them).

Another nice picture I thought I would share.

We hiked down to see a waterfall and had to descend like a million and one little metal stairs. (I am super scared of heights so it was not fun going up or down the stairs but the view was most likely worth it...haha!) Josh was not phased at all as I held his hand and helped him on the stairs. Brandon carried Aiden all snug in his jacket. What cute boys I have!!

It is always hard to get a good family picture because someone else has to take it. I thought this one turned out well of all of us.

We had a really good time together enjoying Heavenly Father's creations. Josh is already talking about when we can go see the geysers again! We'll definitely be going back when the park opens again.

Halloween (Two Months Late!)

I don't know what I get done every day, but I know that updating the blog has definitely not been it. Here are some pictures from Halloween that were just too cute not to post (even if they are almost 2 months late).

Brandon's sister, Jen, made the boys matching Halloween ties. They looked so handsome in their matching ties.

Josh was pretty excited to dress up as a firefighter for Halloween. He really got into the trick-or-treating this year....there was always one more house he could see that we hadn't visited yet. He made a good candy haul for a 2 year old.

Aiden was a super cute chicken for Halloween - his chubby cheeks fit the costume perfectly!

Josh, Aiden and Brandon worked on pumpkins while I was at an orchestra rehearsal. Brandon said Josh LOVED putting the face pieces into the pumpkins and he was pretty proud of them.

This was just too crazy not to share. We were driving into town and saw The Headless Horseman.....literally. We had to turn around and take a picture. Pretty lucky that we had the camera with us!