November Randoms

In November we took a quick two-day trip to Grand Junction to meet our new nephew, Jason.  As usual, we loved hanging out with the Lewis fam and Grandma Shawn.  We were too busy hanging out, playing games, and enjoying our trip that this is the only picture I got.  Yay for fun cousin friends!

Love this boy's giggle.

Bath time!

More Thanksgiving Fun

Playing at the park

Cheering on the Cougars as they beat the Aggies

Pictures of my cute in-laws

An angel in the nativity (with Kevin's family)

Owen's Haircut Faces

I'll let the pictures in this post speak for themselves.

Thanksgiving Day

Instead of going to California for Thanksgiving this year we had all of Duncan's family come and stay at our house.  Things were a little crazy with so many people in the house, but we loved being able to host his whole family.  Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of Loren & Jill and just the backs of Kevin & Jamie, but here are the pictures I did get:

Everybody crowding in the kitchen to make Thanksgiving dinner.

Tanner and Autumn practicing their parenting skills.

Shawn keeping the kids contained in the basement while we made dinner

with tons of help from her sidekick Duncan.

Owen being cute.

Impromptu selfies of Owen and Laura.

Owen learned to crawl up the stairs while I was upstairs making dinner!

Cousins hanging out for the first time.

As you can see, Owen was really excited about it!

And the kids all ended the day with a movie night with the grandparents.

We had a great time being together and remembering all the blessings we've been given!

December 11th - 11 Months!

At eleven months Owen was:

• crawling on hands and knees
• pulling up to standing on everything
• crawling up the stairs
• mastering his ear piercing scream
• furniture walking
• trying to heal from his second black eye - after pulling a side table down on top of himself (the table has since been sold)

Family Pictures (+Mya's Three Year Old Photos)

My awesome sister (Laura B Photography) took some family pictures for us in October.  She is so awesome and always patient which is pretty much a must with two small kids.  Here are some of my favorites from our shoot.

Why is it that the outtakes are always my favorite?  Maybe because they're just so real.  My kids really don't like getting their pictures taken and pretty much act like twerps the whole time.  I just find the whole thing so funny.

Huge thanks to my mom and Laura for making this happen!