The Festival of Trees

We went to our local festival of trees again this year! It was so much fun! It has been such a fun tradition that we do as a family. Alex had to work a ton that day so it was so nice that he took an hour off to go with us and then took us to lunch before we didn't see him the rest of the day/ night! Paysen has always been all about Santa but this year he is even more into him. For example there is a life size one at Wal Mart that dances and he makes us go and look at it three or four times while we are there before we can leave. He also has to watch The Santa Claus every day. I dont usually let him really watch movies or tv throughout the day but that is ALL he wants to do. So we have limited it to once a day :) It has made this time of year a lot of fun and magical. At the Festival of Trees he made lots of crafts and after he made his first one he took off running ( He has never ran from me or all of sudden ) and I was like buddy where are you going? He goes I am showing Santa what I made!! And he did this Santa was pretty lonely with not a lot of kids that wanted to sit on his lap... So Paysen went and just played with him! It was really sweet. The Santa was a good sport with him! The trees again were so beautifully done this year. We are going to donate a tree next year and gifts from Heaven's Best!! We meant to do it this year but forgot about it! We now have our name down etc. So we are set for next year :) It will be fun!

 This is now a new thing :) He always checks his hair before we go and makes sure that I hairspray it again before we leave the house :) All this time it has paid off lol.. I am pretty meticulous about how he looks!!

 He looked at me and said Look mom how big I am!! He is getting so grown up and talks like he is 12.. Stories keep coming during this post so I have to write this one down while I have it :) The other day I had my earrings in and he looked at me very seriously and said mom I don't like those.. take them off now. I could not stop laughing and yet I was like well I do.

 My sweet boy!! I know I say sweet every time I talk or post something about him but I am always amazed at how sweet he really is..

S A N T A

 Decorating a cookie it of course has to be BLUE!!! Everything has to be blue with him! :)

 Paysen's favorite tree of course... He loved the Football one :)

 Reindeer candy cane

 Showing Santa and playing with him with it :)

 He made a Reindeer sack full of magic and oats to sprinkle on the lawn for the Reindeer and he also added sparkles so that they will for sure stop at our house!

 He also made a snowman string cheese... After he made it though he was ready to eat it :)

 It was such a fun day!!

That night we added more to our Tree and got the rest of the decorations out!

HaPpY ThAnKsGiViNg~

We had such a wonderful Thanksgiving this year! We celebrated it just the three of us :) It was really nice to be together with just our little family. Alex and I had so much fun preparing the meal together. He did the Turkey on his Traeger it was so yummy. We really cherished the day and had lots of fun of reflecting on what we were thankful for this year. We have been blessed beyond measure this last year and feel so grateful for the miracles that we have had in our lives. We played lots of games together, and it was a fun filled day and relaxing all at the same time. We then went black Friday shopping so that was fun too :)

  My OCD at its best :) haha.. I love list and marking things off of them. This was just so that I would remember everything. I love these sheets :)

 Our coloring pages and our blessings :) Fun activities for the day.

 My table!

 Starting to get the place settings all ready! Alex bought me all new dishes and cookware. I love him and that he makes sure that I have what I need to make everything special and nice... My favorite thing in the world :)

 My baby in the morning! His new saying is I wanna sleeep right when he wakes up :)

 Sticky buns for breakfast

 Our Biggest Blessing!!

 I love this little Turkey and the sweet boy that he is!!

 Appetizers... Paysen was ready

 Our other Biggest Blessing!

 The turkey is ready!

 Alex with his turkey

 He was getting tired towards the end :)

 So thankful for them

 Momma and Paysen

 One of my favorite pictures from the day!

Game time!! We played lots of Sorry, Connect Four, Candyland, Memory, and cards 

Such a perfect day

NOVEMBER!!

Here is a little bit of what our November looked like :)

 We made these fun turkeys one day after school.

 Alex got me some Hunter boots!! He found a good sale on them! I am in love with them!!

 We went to the Veterans parade downtown! It was so cold and I was so unprepared for it being so cold so thankfully we parked really close and warmed up before it started and watched the middle and then ran and got hot coca afterwards, It was really fun still but so cold!

 Turkeys

 I was in charge of young womens and so we made thankful turkeys and then candy turkeys. The girls had a lot of fun making them :) It was fun to really think about what I was most grateful for.

 S. N. O. W our first snowfall came and stayed awhile!! We loved it!!

 Crafting with the kids after school! I love when my table looks like this! :)

 Paysen's thankful turkey that he made with the help of his cousins! He did so good at telling us what he was thankful for! He was so proud of his turkey

 They turned out so cute

 We also had fun making candy turkeys that day too :)

 Playing in the snow

 Decorating our tree!! Yes I put it up a little earlier than I ever have before but it was snowing and so I had too :)

 It turned out pretty this year : )

 We also made thumbprint raspberry cookies. They were so yummy!

 One of my projects.... a Ruffled burlap Christmas Tree skirt!! I love how it turned out!

 It looks really cute under our tree

 I had my first real craving of movie theater popcorn and my sweet hubby went and got me some from our movie theater!

 It was pretty cold for awhile here! Four degrees before church

 Momma and Paysen

 Our little girl is growing! This was at 26 weeks!

 Its been so fun carrying her :)

 My new favorite cookies!! They were fun to make too.. A pumpkin with cinnamon frosting delicious

 I love this craft that Paysen made at Library! He did really good on it

 First time in his new snow suit and Boots :) Such a cutie.. We are really glad the store had blue boots because he wouldnt put on any that were not blue.. and thankfully they were moms favorite too.. Life with a two year old who loves blue :)

 Making a snowman!!

They did such a great job!! and worked hard on it too..

 Paysen loved it! They had so much fun together

 We have been playing games everyday. Our new favorite is Sorry. I am so glad that Paysen gets the concept and loves to play games and is always asking to play more. He also loves connect four and candyland :)

 now where is the other train :)

 My first blanket that I made our little girl! I also made another one but didn't take pictures till later and I need to still download it. They were so fun to make and it was my first time ever sewing a blanket or using bias tape. I love to sew! It is my new favorite thing :)

 ps They had no fabric so I was limited on choice :)