Mom * Dad * Leslie * came to visit :)

The weekend before Christmas My parents came for a long weekend!! And Leslie drove over from Idaho as well for a few days and then we all traveled to Mom and dads for Christmas. We had so much fun while they were here. I planned a polar express night where we went and got hot chocolate, then did a Christmas Light scavenger hunt ( which dad was all about ) and then we all got a bell at the end and went to the Live Nativity afterwards. We had the best time with them and ate yummy food the whole time and just enjoyed having them at our house!! Thanks again for coming to be with us :)

 When Paysen heard that Grandma and Grandpa were coming he went to get his coloring crayons, and made each of them a picture :)

 Hard at work

 We hung it on the fridge so that when they came he could give it to them

 Waiting and watching for them to come

 He was so excited to see papa that he gave him a ton of kisses..

 Getting ready for the polar express :)

 Our bells

 Our tickets

 The scavenger hunt that we did.. Grandpa won

 My mom and I ready to board the Polar Express

 Les and I with our tickets

 Paysen with his ticket

 We went and got hot chocolate first at Starbucks and cookies :)

 At the live Nativity

We loved watching the potter

Our Family Christmas Pictures

We had our Family pictures done again this last December. I really wanted family pictures in the snow. Our amazing friend Bree took them again for us and did such a fabulous job!! I loved how they turned out. We took them two different days the first time it was so cold that we didnt get a ton of good shots so the second sesh went a lot better :) Here they are

 This is my favorite!! Our sweet Christmas boy :) I love everything about this picture

 Our family Christmas 2013

 I love how they turned out

 Alex and I

We love our Paysen.. Such a Ham

Festival of Trees and other fun activities

We had so much fun this year going The Festival of Trees :) They had Trees that company's decorated and then people bid on them for lots of $$ The highest bid this year was over 8,000 dollars.. Pretty crazy. They were so beautiful to look at.. They had a ton of crafts for the kids and Santa was there.. We had a fun morning going to that.. Plus our Ward Christmas party, The Messiah, and fun parties to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year :)

 Paysen with Santa Claus. He was ready to go and sit on his lap and knew when it was his turn. He loves Santa.. Even though we thought he might  be scared of this one he wasnt. He also loved his Candy cane after.

The Crafts he made at the Festival of Trees 

 His snowman cheese stick

 His Gingerbread house

 Paysen loved decorating and frosting his own cookie..

 After we went shopping and Paysen got some new snow boots..

 He kept dancing around in them

 I love how magical he makes this time of year

 Paysen went to Nursery at church a whole month before his was 18 months and has loved it. I seriously cannot believe that he is old enough for Nursery..

our cute church boy

My girlfriends and I had a girls night to Starbucks and then to the Messiah that our stake put on. It was so much fun to be with them and enjoy time to ourselves.