Oh Christmas Tree Oh Christmas Tree

We made our annual trip to Thornton's Treeland the Saturday after Thanksgiving. We all love this tradition! This year it was EXTRA cold! We bundled up pretty well but we still had to decide fast. Bentley wasn't loving it!!

My bundled up boys at home. My Mom made Baylor's angry bird had and it is still his favorite. Bentley was fighting for it. He loves it too!

BRRRRR....

This is it!!!

We decorated the tree the next night. The boys love decorating the tree.... especially Wesley. He's my little decorator!! Someday I would love to have the ornaments evenly distributed on the tree... for now, they all tend to migrate towards the top half :)

November

We had a really nice warm day in November so we went on a lovely bike ride! Wesley LOVES his bike!

Wesley and Chloe were so cute with their Pilgrim hats and Pumpkin Pies when I picked them up from school on Wednesday!

Our living Room. 

I don't make pies very often but when I do I'm so proud! I got together with Lindsi and Callie the night before Thanksgiving and made a few pies with them.

Baylor helping Casey carve the Turkey on Thanksgiving!

 Me and my Momma! I love her so much!

Christmas Photos

My good friend Amy gave me the best Christmas gift! A fun Christmas photo shoot at the Christmas Tree farm. She did an excellent job I love these photos so much! I am so lucky that she was willing to share her talent with me!!

Justin

This was a highlight of my YEAR! Becca, Cami, Kendall and I saw Justin Timberlake at the Moda Center. It was absolutely amazing! This was a night I would like to relive over and over!!! 

Crazy Wind Storm!

 We had several terrible wind storms this year but we had one in November that did some damage! It was SO scary! It felt like the Wizard of Oz! I thought the whole house was gonna blow away!! Baylor was playing in the playroom and he watched this gigantic tree fall right outside the playroom window. He was yelling 'Mom a tree fell down!' Several trees had already fallen so I figured that's what he meant but nope... this huge tree in front of the house! We had scheduled to cut it down the following week... but Mother nature took care of that for us! Fortunately there was not much damage. The tree fell on the front of our Sequoia but there wasn't even a scratch! Unfortunately our white railing was toast! That night we were so scared we hurried and packed our bags and stayed at Lori and Verne's house. Since then, when Baylor sees a tree that has fallen he says, 'I bet they needed to stay at their Grandma and Grandpa's house!' This storm was so crazy there were fallen trees and blown down fences EVERYWHERE! I've never seen anything like it!

 Verne and Lori came over to help clean up.

There were fallen tree out of every window! We lost a total of 7 trees... and our neighbor lost a huge one that fell over and smashed our chain link fence. Our forest has 4 horizontal trees in in. 

During the storm the vent to our oven was flapping and making a noise. Bentley named this noise 'Freaky guy' every time the wind would make a flap he would yell 'NO FREAKY GUY!' Then he would apologize to freaky guy. 'Sorry Freaky Guy, sorry freaky guy.' Then he started kissing freaky guy (the air) and saying 'hugs freaky guy!' It was so entertaining!!