Countdown to Christmas!

Now that Thanksgiving is over (where did November go by the way!?) it is officially time to focus on Christmas! Christmas time really is the most wonderful time of the year. I'm not even trying to be cliche or anything because it really is the best. People are more kind and giving. There is something about the Christmas spirit that just brings out the best in all of us. Ike and I went to the temple today and the visitor's center had their annual Gingerbread house display and it was an awesome way to kick off our Christmas season!

 The boys getting ready to go in!

 Brady is holding the scavenger hunt paper!

 Whoville

 Jackson was excited to find snoopy!

 Playing in the gingerbread house!

Tooth Fairy Comes to Town!

Jackson has started losing his baby teeth and it has been fun because this is a first time for us.  I personally think he looks cuter with a few less teeth.

6 Months.

6 Months! Has it really been six month since this little (big) man came into our family. All of the boys have been good babies but Hudson really takes the cake. This kid is the happiest baby ever. I can't help but fall in love with him over and over every time I hold him. It doesn't hurt that he sleeps 12 hours a night.

I love my boys.

Remember back in the day when I used to actually blog? Well I am going to try to get back on the wagon. October has been a busy but really great month. Hudson is getting so big. He has to be 20lbs now. He wears a size 12 month and he is all smiles all the time. He will be six months old in a few days and I can't believe it. I finally had some more pictures taken of the boys. We are amazingly lucky to have a good friend who likes to take pictures as a hobby. She is so talented and always does an amazing job.

Back from the dead.

So we have had some major computer issues lately :(

I have not been able to upload ANY pictures from my camera and I have had to try to get thousands of pictures off Ike's work computer and onto internet photo storage sites. It has been a horrible process. Long story short, I haven't posted in a while and there is a lot of stuff that I am not going to get to talk about. Oh well. I am starting fresh. I'm not going to back track and talk about my summer. So pretty much we are going to pick up in the here and now. My parents were in town last weekend and we went to the BYU/NEBRASKA game! It was really awesome. Joanna and Katherine stayed with us for a few days after and that was really awesome too. Today is the first Saturday we have had since early July where we were not on vacation, didn't have visitors and don't have to go anywhere. I am pumped!!! So here are some pics of my parents trip to the good ol' state of Nebraska!

It was an awesome game!

Crafty C-A-R-R

I've been a craftin' lately. Kind of cross stitched out right now so I decided to try my hand at some other things. We had pizza the other night and I decided to make some big letters for our living room. I have been thinking about doing something like this for a while but I figured I would just buy the letters. Anyway, here is a (not so great) tutorial on how to make giant letters:


I started by cutting out my letters from the pizza boxes. You need two identical cardboard letters for each big letter you want to make.

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Then I glued 1" tall (varying widths) pieces of cardboard all the way around one of the pieces from each letter.

Then I glued the top part to each one. Making a thick letter.

I then cut several strips of 1" wide fabric and wrapped each letter. I didn't have to use very much hot glue in this step. I pretty much only hot glued when I had to start a new fabric strip.

I really am sorry these pictures are a little fuzzy. My camera really struggles with indoor pictures.

And there you have it! All done!

Ike's Adventure

Ike went to Youth Conference this week in Kansas City, MO. He had an AMAZING time!!! He got to see tons of cool church history sights and he said the best part was that he was able to work in the temple for 8 HOURS!!! He didn't take my camera with him but luckily, the youth in our Branch were nice and took some great pictures and video of him.

In case some of you didn't know, Ike is a very good dancer. But his blessing of being a sweet dancer is sometimes a curse, because sometimes, when certain songs come on, he cannot control his dancing urge and he just has to bust a move...