Oh Christmas Tree!

I was really excited to decorate the Christmas Tree this year because I knew Raylee would love to help. She was so excited to hang the first ornament and she got mad if I didn't give them fast enough to her. Most of the ornaments ended up in about four different clumps on the bottom half of the tree, but luckily she didn't mind if we moved them somewhere else. She was really sad when we ran out of ornaments to hang. Everytime she comes down in the morning now the first thing she says is pretty tree. The day after we decorated the tree Raylee would lay down on the carpet in front of the tree and just look at it for a few minutes then go and play for awhile and come back to look some more. It was too cute. I tried to get a picture without her realizing it, but she saw me and looked at the camera instead of the tree. Corey will be putting lights up on the house soon, and I know she will love those just as much!

Let it Snow!

Raylee was SO excited when it snowed for the first time this season. We didn't get a chance to go out and play in it, but she sat at the window with her baby and watched it forever. Every two minutes she would look at me and say "mom, no(snow)" as she pointed outside. I can't wait to see what she does when she actually gets to play in it!

Tigger's Halloween

This year for halloween Raylee was Tigger. Corey's sister had a tigger costume that fit Raylee, and she absolutely loved it when she saw it. She kind of looked like a boy since Tigger is a boy, but she was still the cutest little Tigger I have ever seen! We ended up going to my sisters house that night for a little Halloween party any Raylee was able to trick or treating with her cousins. I think she was a little nervous at first, but once she realized she would get candy at every house she did really good and started running to the next house. It is now a month after Halloween (yeah, I know I'm a major slacker) and Raylee is still talking about how she was Tigger for Halloween.

Silly Girl!

Raylee's favorite place to play lately is on the three stairs between the family room and kitchen. She takes all her babies and stuffed animals over there and can spend hours playing with them. Most of the time she uses the stairs as their beds and then she will leave a stair open for her to lay on as well and then she will sing them to sleep usually with twinkle twinkle little star (which is a bedtime must for her lately). It's so funny to watch, and I love that something entertains her for more than ten minutes at a time.

Our Pumpkin Party

This year I decided that I would just let Raylee paint her pumpkin rather than carving it since she wouldn't be able to do any of the carving process. She had a ton of fun and ended up painting every inch of her pumpkin. It also kept her entertained the entire time Corey and I carved pumpkins. I did feel a little bad in the end when Corey lit our pumpkins and we couldn't light hers, but she didn't seem to mind. She just loved the fact that any of the pumpkins lit up at all.

The Pumpkin Patch

This year my sister invited us to go with their family to a local pumpkin patch to pick out our pumkins. There was quite a few people there since it was free, but it was definitley worth the wait. First we got to go on a hayride out to the pumpkin patch which I think made Raylee a little nervous at first.

Then it was time to pick out the perfect pumpkin. Corey helped Raylee find hers, and she kept trying to pick it up and carry it around, but as soon as she did she would say heavy, mom.

I found mine pretty quickly, but Corey took forever to find the perfect one. I think he probably looked over the entire patch trying to find his pumpkin.

The pumpkin patch was lots of fun, and I don't think I can go back to just picking out pumpkins at the grocery store anymore.