Christmas Pictures

 We went to JC Pennys to have our pictures taken

for our Christmas card.

 Xander did a good job smiling!

 Later Brady set up his studio at my Mom's house

and took more pictures of Xander.

 My Mom has awesome Christmas decorations so

we had a lot of props to work with!

I Love this one of Xander and Hollie!

Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving and Black Friday

 We had Thanksgiving dinner at my Mom and Dad's house. 

My grandparents, aunts and uncles and some

 cousins came up too. There was too much food like every year.

 It was fun seeing everyone have fun talking and playing games together.

Later that night we took Xander Black Friday shopping.

We went to the 10 pm sale at Walmart. I was excited

I was able to get a lot of Disney books for $5 each!

Christmas Chocolates

We spent the weekend down at Brady's parent's house

so that we could make our traditional Christmas chocolates.

 Julie and Grandma Peterson were in charge of dipping
the chocolates that Brady had cut.
They are very fast!

 I was in charge of decorating the chocolates
with the colors that let you know what
flavor it was. These ones are the mints.

 This is Rick and Xander's idea of helping.

This is Xander all ready for church!

The Piano Guys

Brady's friend from work was able to get us tickets to

The Piano Guys! My Mom and Dad watched Xander

so that we could go. It was so much fun! We were

able to sit right in front. After the show we bought some

of their CDs and they signed them for us.

It was a fun date night!

Zoo Time

 We were able to go to the zoo again with my mom,

 Brittany and the girls, Joan, Janae and Jacoby.

 It was a nice day and it wasn't very croweded.

 The mommy giraffe and her baby!

 The baby was trying to get a leaf. It was fun watching

it try to get low enough to reach the ground.

 Xander's traditional zoo picture to measure his hand.

 Riding the elephant!

It was a fun day at the zoo!

Xander's First Halloween

 

Xander by the Pumpkins Grandpa Jeff grew!

 Xander was a monkey for Halloween. 

He didn't mind being in the costume at all!

 

We went to see Brady and all his coworkers dressed up at his work.

Brady was a hunter because his Psy jacket never shipped.

 We spent Halloween night at my Mom's house and passed out candy with her!

 

Brady's pumpkins he carved.

Brooke's & Grandma's Birthdays

 On September 16th we went down to Salt Lake with my parent's

to celebrate Brooke's and my Grandma's birthday.

Brooke turned one and she had a lady bug party.

 My sister had really cute decorations and she 

made these super cute lady bug cakes!

 The boys at Brooke's party.

Grandma's party was at my Aunt Randee's house in her backyard.

We had a crock pot potluck. There were tons of good food!

Happy Birthday Brooke and Grandma!