Thanksgiving break!

Oh yeah, it's Monday after Thanksgiving and i'm already on top of posting about it!

Hold your applause!

Our Thanksgiving was so fun and much needed! We drove the 8 hours back to Richfield Utah and Evie did AMAZING in the car! She watched movies on the iPad, sang (I assume) songs, ate snacks, played with her socks and slept. Thanks heavens. Our families both have roots in Richfield so we got to see Brandons family and my family this week! It worked out perfect! Now before I get into pictures i'd like to apologize for my photo quality ha ha ha. I decided last minute not to bring my Nikon and just bring our little point and shoot that has been dropped and sucked on one too many times by a certain 1 year old. So my photos are sub par and it bugs me ha ha ha. Enjoy.

Me and my little sisters! 

Kaili is about 23 weeks along now! Can't wait! Thats my very FIRST nephew in there! 

(even though you can barely tell she's pregnant)

We ate SO MUCH FOOD! Kaili brought some of that cookie pudding stuff and I'm pretty sure I took 3rds of it. Homemade rolls, turkey, mashed potatoes! YUM!

While we were in Richfield we stayed at Brandons Aunt Holly's house and she has the "dream backyard" for any kid. Evangeline was literally in HEAVEN! I think she spent 6 hours outside on Thanksgiving Day! She convinced everyone at least once to take her on the swings, the playground or the tramp!

.It was pure bliss.

 After thanksgiving B passed out on the floor so Evie thought she'd help out with that

That night we watched The Avengers and my family got to town! After the movie a few of us brave souls took off to Walmart for some Black Friday craziness. It was my very first time doing black friday and I figured since I'm in a small town i'd try it out this year. We got to Walmart, looked at the line at the check out, wandered around for 30 minutes and left ha ha ha ha Huge failure but it was fun. 

The next day the Valantines packed up and we moved over to my Grandpa's house in Elsinore to hang out with my family! Yahoo! We hit up all you can eat french toast at the Ideal Dairy and then did some Christmas shopping at my favorite shopping spot, Christensen's!  After we blew our Christmas budgets we took the 4 wheelers out for the rest of the day! 

 Evie thought she was gonna drive all morning while we were getting the bikes out and started up ha ha ha. Evie ADORES her uncle Jared, it is just hilarious to watch her with him, she goes nuts and just squeals at him all day!

Evie would NOT go down for a nap, we wanted to get out on the bikes but she was being so stubborn! Then my mom remembered that Jared used to pass out on the 4 wheelers so we thought we'd see if Evie would be the same way and viola! 

.worked like a charm.

We took the wagon and went and saw farm animals, Evie of course loved that! 

The week went fast and we were sad to go but we are glad to be home ...

okay we're glad to have Evie in her crib 2 rooms away from us again lol 

No offense to Thanksgiving but LET CHRISTMAS BEGIN!!

We've been non stop watching Christmas movies and my Glee Christmas playlist is on repeat! 

I put our tree up and a Christmas miracle has happened! 

Evie BARELY touches the tree!!

I thought she'd tear it down on day one! She will come up and touch one ornament 

(one I got from the dollar store and intentionally put right at Evie eye level on the front) 

then after she looks at it for a second she just moves on to other things!

.amazing. 

Merry Christmas to All!

Halloween!

Halloween this year was a BLAST! We have the funnest friends out here in the Mile High City! For Halloween this year we decided to have a big halloween party and EVERYONE had to dress up for it! It was so fun to see everyones fun costumes! Our costume was Evie inspired. Brandons little brother Cary taught her this move we have come to call The Hulk! She's squeezes her fists together as TIGHT as she can and then makes a hilarious grunting noise until her face goes purple! HA HA HA HA It kills us! We love it!! 

So while trying to come up with a costume for our family we decided on The Avengers JUST so Evie could be The Incredible Hulk! (well... a more girly cute version of him)

 Evie was the Hulk, I decided to be Black Widow and Brandon couldn't decide for a while who he wanted to be. He either wanted to be Tony Stark (not Iron Man, Tony Stark), Captain America, or Thor but only Thor during the part where he has just his jeans on and no shirt ha ha ha ha!  

.Luckily we finally landed on Captain America.

We wanted to take Evie Trick or Treating this year and B's school was doing a Trick or Treat day at the school so we decided to do that!
Evie LOVED IT!!!

A lot of the husbands got let out early from classes and got to meet up with their kids and go trick or treating. Evie was HILARIOUS! The first 3 stops took us around 3 minutes each because when someone would put a piece of candy into her bucket Evie would put her face into her bucket and just SQUEAAAAAL with joy about it! 

HA HA HA 

She would FREAK OUT for a few minutes and then we could move on to the next stop and do the entire thing over again! 

.Too funny.

Heres our friend group out Trick or Treating with the kiddos!

After Trick or Treating we met up for a Halloween party!

It was so fun! We had games and sugar cookie decorating, halloween music, good food and lots of awesome costumes!

Boxers and a Fairy                                                                       Mustard Ketchup and a Hotdog

African Safari Tourists                                                 A Sailor, Captain, and Mermaid

The Flinstones                                                                       Captain America

I LOVE that I married a man who will dress up like a super hero and run around with little kids :)

 B did awesome in his event, he had to hang a jar lid from a rope around his waist and drop it on to a soda bottle!

.Group Shot.

Kori and Lidia enjoying some sugar cookies

Evies first Halloween was AWESOME!

I can't wait for a lot more fun years of Trick or Treating to come!