Christmas is coming.

I love Christmas! Ben thinks I am going a bit overboard, but I just tell him I can't wait until we have a big house that I can decorate like my mom always did our house. I love how my mom always had her house perfect for the holidays. The Christmas decorations went up the day after Thanksgiving (now that I have my own stuff it goes up right after Halloween!) It was always such a wonderful time of year. I know now that we didn't have a lot of money growing up but Christmas was always wonderful. Santa always made it to our house. And I hope that I can give my children that same feeling at Christmas. Thank you mom for making Christmas such a wonderful and magical time for me!

Thanksgiving!

Yummy!

Happy Family!

What a cute Christmas outfit.

We had a fun Thanksgiving. We got up at 9am and watched the Macy's Parade. Thomas loved the singing and dancing and colors. He laughed and almost sat good through the hole thing. Then we finished up the food and headed over to Mandy's with a quick stop at Walmart. We had dinner and hung out played a few games and called it a night around 9pm. Then Ben and I went and looked at the Christmas lights, and headed home. We went to bed around midnight and then Elizabeth came over at 3:45 am and we meet up with Mandy at Kohls, then over to Walmart, Toys R Us and then, to the mall. It was a fun time.

  

Sleep through the night!!!

So Thomas was finally sleeping through the night. (For about 2 weeks now) But for the last 2 nights he has been up all dang night. I find myself rocking him at night praying that he will just let me lay him down and then when I do lay him down he starts screaming. So I bring him into bed with us but he won't sleep with us he plays and squirms and crys. So I end up in the front room watching infomercials holding my 22 lbs son on my chest and rocking. Heaven forbid I stop rocking him because then he just starts to cry again. Shouldn't he be sleeping through the night! He is almost 8 months old for goodness sakes! Well he just feel asleep for a nap so I am going to lay down to try to catch a few winks.

Balancing School and Money.

So school is well....... going. Ben's finals have already started and he has been a little stressed about them but I know he will do great the only concern we are having is the fact that money is currently nonexistent and he can only work so many hours with school and all and school is really expensive here and loans only go so far. It doesn't look like we are going to get into BYU this semester. Bummer but we will try again for summer. We know we are where we are suppose to be. I am just a little stressed about money and now here comes Thomas' first Christmas and I just want him to have a good one. I know he won't remember but I will. I just keep think when school is finally done it will get better. So that is my current stress. Thanks for listening.

So much fun.

Elizabeth came over and we got some really cute pictures of Milo. We had a fun morning taking pictures and just hanging out. Milo is getting so big.
We got this really cute picture of "sleeping" picture of him. He wasn't really sleeping got to love the camera that captures quick enough to catch a blink. 
Thomas is almost to old for naked shots so I figured I would get a few in before that day came. Thomas loves the camera and poses for it as soon as he sees it. I love his grin and giggle he is such a happy boy. (usually)  

Thomas has his dad's big blue eyes. And his mommy's dimples.

One more pictures of that big cute smile! I am so lucky to have this sweet boy in my life. He blesses my life everyday. I love being a mom and can't wait for our little family to grow. if all our babies are like Thomas our family will be truly blessed!

What a weekend.

So I have a wonderful husband tat loves me so much that he helped me put the Christmas Tree up even though it is only the first of Nov. Thomas loves looking at it and we have it up on a small table so that he can't get it.
We went to St. George for Milo's blessing. It was fun. Thomas got his first sippy cup and loves it. 

Thomas and his cousin Tyler love playing.

The Stout family after the blessing. You should see this new grandpa with his grandson. He can't get enough of him. It was cool to see how much this family loves this new little baby.