So this is Christmas....

Christmas was lots of fun this year, especially since it was Jackson's first Christmas. We spent Christmas Eve at my aunts house, and then spent Christmas Eve night at my parents house. Raylee took a little while to warm up on Christmas morning, and didn't really want anything to do with the dress-ups that Santa brought her. She did have fun playing with the toys that Santa had brought for Jackson though. Eventually she started putting some of her dress-ups on and had lots of fun after that. Both Raylee and Jackson got spoiled like CRAZY!

The one thing Raylee asked Santa for was some Ariel chapstick, and so I had to put this picture on of Raylee putting on some of her chapstick :)

After we spent some time at my parents house on Christmas we headed up north to meet up with Corey's family. We went to a movie that afternoon with his fam, which was something new for both Corey and I, and then after that we went to his parents house to open more presents, have dinner, and play games!

Although Christmas was a crazy busy day, it was So much fun!

Temple Square

I love seeing the lights at Temple Square, but unfortunately it's been a few years since I've been. This year we went with my parents and had a lot of fun. We picked a good night since it wasn't too cold, or too terrible crowded. Raylee kept getting confused with Mary and getting married since she know that you get married in the temple, so everytime we said something about Mary, she would tell us that she was going to get married in that temple. Too cute!

Thanksgiving in St. George

For Thanksgiving we went to St. George with Corey's family. Usually we are only able to go for a couple of days, but since Corey's new job didn't start until Dec. 1, we were able to go for the whole time. We rented the same house that we rented over the fourth of July, and it was so much more fun than a hotel since we all get to be together, plus we got to have a pool in the backyard! Raylee had lots of fun with all her cousins, and had fun playing with all the girl cousins that are around her age.

We spent the time doing what we always do in St. George: eating, hanging out, swimming, shopping, and golfing! Definitely some of my favorite things!

Poor Jackson got pink eye right before we left, but he was a trooper and was pretty food the whole time! He got spoiled from all the attention from everyone!

One night we stayed up late playing games, and poor Raylee was so exhausted she fell asleep on Dusty's lap.

Even though it was November, and pretty chilly outside, we were luckily able to heat the pool to nice 95 degrees and so we had tons of fun in the pool that felt more like a really warm bath! Raylee is still a chicken when it comes to the water, but she is getting a little braver.

The weather was a little scary coming home, but all in all it was an awesome trip! Can't wait to go again!

Spooktacular Halloween!

We had lots of fun celebrating Halloween this year! Raylee and Jackson both had Halloween shirts this year, so I tried to get a picture of both of them together, but Jackson would NOT hold still! He is constantly wanting to be on the move. The picture above is the best I got, although he is still trying to get out of his sisters arm so he can make his escape! Raylee found a witch's hat in the Target dollar section and wouldn't take it off. I could barely get it off her to pay for it! She wore it around constantly for like a week.

Carving pumpkins was fun, as always, but I think I will be glad when my kids can carve their own pumpkins! Raylee was excited to get the "guts" out of the pumpkin by herself, but didn't like the way they felt, so it was daddy to the rescue!

After Corey was done carving Raylee's pumkin, we let her paint the back side of it while we carved our pumpkins.

We ended up with an itsy bitsy spider, a cat, Cinderella, and a "mean" pumpkin!

For Halloween, Raylee was Tinkerbell and Jackson was a monkey. I had a hard time getting a picture of Raylee because she kept trying to fly like Tinkerbell, so all my pictures kept ending up blurry. And Jackson wasn't any better. My little monkey wouldn't hold still, and kept trying to escape!

Since Halloween was on a Sunday, we celebrated on Saturday which just happened to be Corey's dads birthday. We started out in Tremonton to have a quick birthday party, and then Raylee went trick-or-treating with some of her cousins. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of all the cousins together, but I did get one with Bella and Aurie.

After trick-or-treating we headed down to my sisters house for our annual Halloween party. We tried to get a picture of all the cousing together, but it wasn't happening so this is the best I got!

Halloween was blast, and Raylee came home with tons of candy which she unknowingly shared with her mom ;)

The cabin!

We went to the cabin for the first time this year in October. It had been over a year since I had been there, and so it was a long overdue trip up to High Valley! We had a blast as usual, and since this was our first trip since getting our new camera we took tons and tons of pictures.

The time seemed to pass way too quickly, but we filled it up with lots of fun activites. We did lots of ATV riding, and since we went during the deer hunt, any time we went outside our little cabin community we had to wear some sort of orange just to be sure we wouldn't get shot :)

Raylee got to spend tons of time with all her cousins, and had so much fun! They went on ATV rides, the tire swing, painted rocks, went on walks, and she even got to sleep in the same bed as 3 of her cousins. Jackson turned 9 months while we were up there, got to have his first piece of licorice thanks to his grandpa :), and started crawling while we were up there.

Instead of rambling on some more I will let the pictures do the rest of the talking....

Tubby Time

Bathtime has gotten much easier and quicker now that these two squirts can take a bath together, and they absolutely love it. Raylee does get a little annoyed that Jackson always ends up scooting across the tub and squishing her against one end of the tub, and Jackson should get annoyed that Raylee always takes the toys away from him, but he doesn't. He just entertains himself with some splashing.

Nothing like two clean kiddo's right out of the tub, one of the best smells there is! Too bad this can't be a scratch and sniff post!

Picnic in the Park

My family decided to get together for one last hoorah before Leslie left for BYU-I and so we decided to have a picnic at the park. We had just got our new camera and were having fun taking some pictures, although I am ashamed to say that I didn't get one of Leslie! There were a couple of really cute pictures, so I thought I would post them, although we are still trying to figure out the ins and outs of the camera. The picnic was lots of fun and gave us all one last Tweety fix to hold us over for the next couple months until we get to see her again!