The Tree!

Christmas Season is officially here!

Christmas trees are one of my favorite things about the holidays. Grandma and Grandpa Coombs let us borrow a tree and ornaments so that we have our own tree in the basement and we decorated it for FHE. The kids had fun putting the ornaments on the tree...you'll notice they are all in one spot where they could reach :)

We had a blast decorating and dancing to Christmas music. We followed the decorating with a lesson from daddy about the tree and symbols of Christmas. Grandma topped off a great night with delicious pumpkin cookies! I love this time of year and can't wait to experience all the joys that it brings with my family.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We were able to share Thanskgiving this year with the Coombs family.

I love this holiday. It is a perfect day where we can just enjoy family and think of all of our blessings. Oh yeah, the food and the relaxing is pretty great too :)

We love our family and are so grateful for them. We are especially grateful for our Savior and the hope and peace we receive through Him.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Pictures

Maryn took family pictures for us a few weeks ago. Here are a few (ok, a lot!) of our favorites:

Thanks Maryn!!

Cousin time at Aunt Mindy's!

Everyone loves Aunt Mindy's house! The kids got their fill of it today when Mindy got all of the mommy's tickets to see the premier of Breaking Dawn. While we were at the movie the kids ruled the house!

Thanks Mindy for the fun girls night! And thanks to Landon and Brittyn for babysitting all the crazy kids!

Joy School

Cole has been going to joy school with his cousin Zac. The last few weeks were at Aunt Emily's house so Ellie and I were able to go help out. Cole has been having so much fun and it helps him not miss his friends and preschool in Iowa so much. Thanks to all of Zac's teachers and school buddies for letting Cole crash your school!

Daddy Time

We have had lots of Daddy time in Utah! Ben has had more lenient rotations and we have been loving it. It's so nice to just be with Daddy. We have missed you the last two years Daddy!! Welcome back into our lives...at least for a few months :)

Baby Girl

I know you're my baby girl Ellie...but this is going a little too far!

Every time I turn my head you sneak into the baby swing. We finally had to hide the swing so you wouldn't break it :)

Scarface

Cole gets hurt on a daily basis here. I guess he's a little accident prone. He got nailed near his mouth with a flying toy the other day. Today he was slapped across the face by a rubber band as he was "exercising" with it. Poor guy looks like he's been beat up!

Hopefully his face clears up before Coombs family pictures next week!

Another Party!

We celebrated Ben's birthday with his family tonight. Ben finally got his birthday pies...and all 29 candles! It is so fun to be able to celebrate special occasions with our family. We have missed all of these parties living in Iowa and we are soaking it all in!

Happy Birthday Benny!!

Today is my amazing hubbie's 29th bday!!

Poor boy had his birthday on fast sunday, but at least he got lots of presents in the morning :)

After church I made him his very own nacho birthday cake with his favorite El Matador salsa, because I was pretty sure he wouldn't be too impressed with the birthday cake we got for the family dinner with my fam.

We had dinner with my family to celebrate Brittyn, Emersyn, and Ben's birthdays.

Cole didn't think his daddy should have a princess cake so we added a dump truck to make it more manly :)

Happy Birthday Ben!! Thanks for being so selfless and easy going. I hope you had a great day and know that we love you and think you are amazing!!