Holidays

This holiday season was wonderful.  We seriously could not have asked for much better.  We were able to spend time with family, have a break from work and school and even take a short road trip.  We started off by heading down to Arizona.  We took our time to get down there and just had an enjoyable trip.  We stopped in Las Vegas and stayed at Circus Circus.  McKay got to ride on a few rides and dad even won him a stuffed frog.  The next day we stopped at the London Bridge in Havasu Az.  We finally made it to Tempe.  We spent the rest of the week in Az with family.  We played games, went shopping and just visited.  We celebrated Grandma and Grandpa Merrill’s 60^th wedding anniversary!!! Wah who!!!  It was fun listening to stories about their lives together.  They have created such a wonderful legacy for all of us.  Unfortunately all good things must come to an end.  We drove home on the 23^rd of December.  Christmas Eve we spent with the Daniels family.  We played games and went caroling followed up by our traditional Christmas Eve dinner, steak, shrimp, salad and potatoes on the fine china.  I have to throw in this funny story about McKay.  We were out caroling and there was a bird house on someone porch.  Trish was talking to Porter about how he had built one in school.  McKay looked at the bird house, looked Porter and then turned around and said, “I need school”.  Ha ha it was so funny I guess it is time for us to start looking for a school for McKay.  Christmas Morning was also spent at the Daniels.  It was fun watching McKay and Porter open all their presents; they were so excited about EVERYTHING they got.  Santa Clause spoiled all of us!!!!  Then we came home and spent Christmas evening with the Grondels and our being spoiled continued!  By the time it was time to open presents McKay was pretty tired of opening presents and had no interest at all.  He just wanted to play with all his new toys. 

London Bridge

The buildings at Lake Havasu

Dave and McKay posing for the camera

Performing their duet.

 

Christmas PJ's!

Everyone was telling them to put their arms around eachothers necks and this is what we got.

 

Christmas is Coming!

A tradition we have is to make Gingerbread houses with the Grondel's.

Look at all those Yummy treats!

McKay couldn't help it.  It took a few bites a long the way.

He concentrated so hard.

Finished product.

His was such a masterpiece he had to help Aunt Kristen as well.

The creative minds are hard at work.

I love Christmas lights!  I could look at them forever.  We were able to go to Temple Square and look at all the lights.  This orange tree was Dave's favorite.  It was pretty sweet.  McKay liked the lights but he seemed to be more interested in the water.  He had to stop and look at every water feature along the way.

Christmas is COMING!
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The Festivities

Every year the Saturday after Thanksgiving Dave and I go with my parents to find a Christmas Tree in the mountains.  This year we were able to get a taller tree than normal.  Every year I have a hard time finding "the perfect" tree.  This year so no exception.  It is almost like I expect a light to be shining on the tree and just know that is the one.  Unfortunately that is not how it happens,  but we get a perfect tree every year anyway. 

The seacrh for the tree is always fun.  This year Mckay walked around in the snow with us.  It went up to his waist in someplaces but he kept treking.

Daddy burried McKay in the snow.  Then he showed him how to slide down the hill.

We finally found it!!!

McKay laid down in the snow and said "I'm tired mom, carry me." He did really well and made it clear 'til the end.

After tree "hunting"  McKay got to ride a pony.  He wanted to ride with no hands.  He is too brave sometimes.

Thanksgiving

Thanks giving this year was wonderful!  We had amazing company and amazing food!

Cute turkey cupcakes Aunt Kristen made.

This face is priceless!

We have so much to be thanksful for!  We have wonderful family and friends. 

Halloween

We decorated cookies.  McKay concentrated very hard!

Favorite part is the frosting. Of Course.

Finished product

Aw cute!

Dinosaur "GRR"

He had to show me his tail. "Mommy pcture tail"

                                                       

McKay LOVES Halloween.  He had to say good night to the pumpkins and skeltons every night.  He seriously could not get enough of it.  We took him Trick-ot-Treating and he just wanted to keep going and going (even though it was raining) He loved all the decorations.  Sometimes he would say I'm scared" and start pretend shaking it was so cute.

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If I tried to tell you about everything that has happened since my last post we would both be here FOREVER. So I am going to give you a quick break down of everything that has been preventing me from blogging.


School- Dave and I both started school in August. I am attending the Bachelors of Nursing program at Weber State. It is actually a pretty good program and I only meet on campus every three weeks, the rest of the time is all online work. Dave is going full time in general courses. McKay is not is school yet.

Work- I am working full time at the care center during the days. I really have no set schedule and which drives me CRAZY!!! Luckily I have an amazing mother in law who watches McKay while I work and go to school. Dave still works at Proxresion marketing, he works full time and is gone every night until 9:20 or so.

Okay everything that has happened since my last post in August:

We worked on our new house, inside and out, every spare moment we had . I wanted to post some before and after pictures but I wanted to wait til it was all done but if I do that it could be a year or two.

Nate(Dave’s lil’ bro) got married to a wonderful gal named Cori.

We celebrated my birthday.

We got to go visit my brother and his cute little family in Wyoming. (They are expecting baby number two in the Spring! YEA)

The BEST thing that has happened:  We found out we are pregnant with a little baby boy!!!

Not quite finished but I decided to post what I have. More pictures to follow shortly!

Ghost

McKay is growing up, I sound so repetitive but it is true. He is starting to put sentences together and he sounds like a big boy. He is so cute! He knows what he wants:

The other day I was getting some socks out of my drawer and McKay saw a pair of ghost socks. He took them out from the drawer and kept saying, “ghost, ghost”. Then he said “ghost, on feet” so we put them on. He wore them all around the house and when it was time to go to bed I started to take them off and he threw a HUGE fit. So I left them on and he slept that way all night.