Christmas Tree

I love Christmas! We put up the tree today. It is a magical time of year!
I hope to give Xander that magical feeling
of Christmas my parents gave to me!
When I was just two!

God Bless us, everyone!

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! Xander was such a good little guy this Thanksgiving. We went to a friends house for the big Turkey Meal! He was so happy and fun and did not say, "No Way" not even once!

I am so thankful for him. He brightens my day. He has this little owie on his finger that I have been kissing for the last 2 weeks. "kiss it" he says over and over and over!

I have such a wonderful happy life. I am happier then I have ever been in my life so far, and I have had a pretty wonderful life, so I must be really happy! I have the things I have always wanted. A loving husband, a child to love that is my own, and my strong testimony of the Savior Jesus Christ. I am so blessed in my life!
It is him that I owe

Oh and Thanksgiving would not be complete without my little turkeys! I love making these little guys! Next year, Xander can help me!

My little Artisit.

Xander is becoming quite the artist. He loves to draw. He is going to be a left handed little guy and already holds his pen quite nice.

Circles and lines are his specialty. Today in church they were resembling Suns, but in my abstract view, I think he is drawing pictures of his beloved Mother. His sunshine, shining star, most bright light! :)

He just goes on and on!

But like any great artist. If it is not perfect, it is not worth saving.
Rip. Rip. Rip.
and on to the next
master piece.

Messy Xander

This is a younger picture of Xander, I think he is somewhere around 8 or 9 months old. But looking through the pictures, this one caught my eye, because we are in the Mess phase of life again.
So, he is ripping up paper into small pieces and leaving them around the house. Found the "Cream" for his bum, Vaseline style, thank goodness, and squirted it out all over his toys and then all over the couch.

He loves to draw. I will actually have to take a picture. He lays on his belly and draws little circles all over everywhere (on paper). Pretty dang good for a 2.5 year old, if I do say so myself.
But then like I said before, he likes to rip up his paper when he is done.

He says "NO WAY" very well.
Nap. "No Way"
Bath. "No Way"
Dinner. "No Way"


He used to love his bath. Not anymore. The only way I have been able to get him in is if I dye the water blue or green or yellow. My sis-in-law gave me these tablets last year and have not used them a lot, but thank goodness I have them now.

He is such a 2 year old "teenager" Church is at 9am so being a baby that sleeps until 9am most days, Waking up for church is hard for him. We go in and open the shades, He screams "Lights OFF" Shuts the shades and covers himself with a blanket. No kidding. Jeremy and I just laugh.

Well, most of the time we laugh.
Thank goodness he is so cute.

A warm November Day

I ran another 1/2 marathon. Wohoo. This one I felt much better then the last one in Buena Vista. I did have to stop for 10 minutes and wait in line to use the rest room at Mile 5 so with that in calculation, I met my goal of a 2:16 but my real time was 2:26 minutes.
After I ran the race, Jeremy, Xander and I went to Loveland Lake where we went fishing.

I rested and Jeremy and Xander Fished. Jeremy caught one fish. A Perch. Today he fried it for lunch, with a little bread crumbs. YUMMY. I told Jeremy that instead of Turkey for Thanksgiving we are going to go fishing in the morning and have fish for Thanksgiving
and of course Pumpkin Pie. Speaking of Pumpkins...

These are the pumpkins we grew in our garden this year. I carved two and Jeremy carved two and Xander played in the pumpkin guts. Halloween being on Sunday this year, we just carved pumpkins and handed out candy to all the "heathen" children. (Just kidding)
I am glad they came. It is my favorite thing to hand out candy to cute kids in costumes.