Grand Junction Christmas

We celebrated Christmas with my parents the day after Thanksgiving. It was fun to put up the tree, and the boys opened their presents.

Jonathan got wonked in the head with the swing oustide, so he is sporting a pretty serious scab on his head. 

Thanksgiving Day

My brothers and some of the older cousins played soccer out in the field the morning of Thanksgiving. Edmund hung out with the few little cousins that came inside. If I had gotten the camera just a few seconds earlier, I could have gotten him playing Bandu with Juliette and David too.

Grandma-Chelle helped David eat a banana. 

We were really lucky this year to be able to spend some extra time with my oldest brother Judd and his family. They live just a couple of blocks away from my parents. We ended up cooking pies at their house, and Jonathan followed them home one day, so we all went over and chased their ducks and played with their cute mice.  

Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving in Colorado with my family.  It was colder this year, so we didn't get to do as much playing outside an hiking as we sometimes do, but we still had a wonderful time visiting with my siblings and parents and my Grammy. We raked leaves with Grandma-Chelle. We don't have have any deciduous trees at our house here, so the boys really had a blast playing in the leaves.

Finally!

I'm pregnant! 14 weeks now, but it was a very rough beginning, especially at night. I'm glad to be feeling better and able to work on the blog again.

Hats

Jonathan says some very funny things lately. The other day he was coming in from the garage and slamming the door he said, "I have a special problem. I'm too strong. It's a problem."

 A few days after that he found the scissors. I was in my bedroom sorting laundry, and he came in holding a bunch of cut up sticky notes and said, "Look what I did. I didn't cut off my fingers or hands." I then took the scissors away and put them up high. He looked at me angrily and said, "Go fold laundry in your room." So I did. He came in a few minutes later and said, "Where'd you put the scissors?"

David and Jonathan love their fire hats.

We made masks in honor of Halloween. It was Jonathan's first sparkles and glue experience. He loved it.

PBandJ Monster!

 

Halloween

We went trick-or-treating with our friends on Halloween. Little Bailey had a gorgeous peacock costume that her Grandma had made for her, and our boys had on amazing costumes Grandma-Chelle had made! It was a rainy, cold evening, so we didn't stay out long, but we sure had fun. After many previous failures to put David in his costume, we had success on the night it really counted. Hooray!

Edmund was Walter White from Breaking Bad. We've never seen the show, but we figured it was a costume most people would recognize.

Pumkins

Carving pumpkins is something that Jonathan was looking forward to from the beginning of October. I think it signified to him the beginning of Halloween. We went to the pumpkin patch at he beginning of the month, so it was a long wait until the Monday before Halloween when we carved them. We picked the green pumpkin from an older couple's garden in the ward. What nice people. Jonathan wouldn't touch the pumpkin guts last year, but this year he thought it was a riot.