DIY Baby Gifts

I was tempted just to buy a bunch of stuff, but I am proud to say I only purchased the plain white onesies in this pic. These are for the adorable new baby Reagan. Congrats Becca & Brady!

A bit more Christmas...

the cookie decorating procession

helping aunt stefi

Enjoying their hard work

chasing me down the hill :)

sledding with Kasi and Grandpa (she loves her grandpa!)

Christmas morning, that's an "Ooooo" on her lips

we kept it simple this year with just a couple fun things

her new camera. She told everyone/everything to 'say cheese' all morning...too cute!

going down grandpa's big hill again. This is kasi's vinyl movie poster- haha

my pretty babe tired out after all that Christmas fun!

Christmastime

There are so many things to do during Christmastime. December is such a blast :)

We started off just a few days after Thanksgiving by going to see Savior of the World. This is a such a beautiful play that the church puts on. It is by far my favorite way to get into the true spirit of Christmastime.

We also hit the Festival of Trees, but I forgot to pull out the camera. Kali and I hurried through with the strollers trying to see how much we could get through before the babies really got tired of it. It was just over half with the help of a caramel apple. Yum.

Zoo Lights. This was too cute. All the moving light displays, the reindeer, and the night animals that were all up. Some of our fav's were the white wolf, the roaring tiger, the seals were very much on the go, as were the bats--fascinating, though they looked an awful lot like vampires. We didn't get to see the polar bears though, but our friends, the Summer's, were awesome and gave us a family pass to the zoo for next year- we are so excited!

 Kambri absolutely loves curious george and all monkeys that resemble him

Santa's reindeer

Yesterday we went to the Thanksgiving Point Santa Breakfast, this is tradition because my mom does the photography. So far it's also tradition for Kambri to have a near heart attack on Santa's lap. She still hates any strange or scary looking men.

why dad, why? Even Dextin wasn't a fan and he loves Santa

high five for santa, that's as close as she would get if she had the choice

happy to be done, notice the tear?

heartbreaking, someday she'll like santa right?

Dad felt bad and gave her candy to make up for it

The frontrunner had a free day (as long as you brought a can of food) so we took advantage and headed up to city creek! Nice to only drive two minutes to the station. The kids were so excited for the train.

couldn't help but hold on to her, it was so crowded our 'window' was actually a door....scary.

The City Creek play area. This was too funny. Dextin had a bit of Dr. Pepper....he was a wild man, running, dancing, skipping, pushing others to go if necessary, busy, busy, for about a half an hour....then he collapsed on the floor in exhaustion. Kambri on the other hand hated how many people were there, she timidly wandered around trying to stay out of everyone's way and doing her best to keep up with Dextin, the only kid she knew...fail...she had had no Dr. Pepper.

Dextin did stop for a minute and grab her hand to pull her along, too cute.

We are looking forward to more parties and activities this week. Love Christmastime!!

Quiet Book

This is one of those projects that was fun to do....but I am so glad to be finished! It took a few hours here and there for a couple weeks, not too bad. The finishwork is what took the longest. The freehand cutting and arranging was so fast :)

embroidery, so hard to line it all up!

Velcro-ed on

This is a little washer with a match inside of each of the socks on the other page.

Finger puppets

three seasons of leaves fit behind those hills

little toothbrush, also the bag will hold pony tails to do the yarn hair. The petals are just removable and fit in the pot.

cookie dough/cookie sheet shapes, little spatula attached

rainbow colors are attached to the cloud with ribbons, clothespins are hot glued to the rope, the clothes are in the basket

snowman building- pieces fit behind the snow hill, the other side is just beads for counting

Tic Tac Toe :)

Kambri loves it so far....Here's to hoping it will keep our little one occupied for many sacrament meetings to come!

Jumped the gun

I don't have many Thanksgiving decorations....so.....

Christmas seems to come and go too quickly anyway ;)

only place it would fit :)

Kambri LOVES the train in the tree

adorable little chimney countdown. every day/brick you pull Santa goes down a little further.

love.

This time of year is so fun. I'm going to be annoying and announce that this year I'm already half done with Christmas shopping! and on budget, that never happens, Wahoo!

(Update 12/8: pretty much done, budget out the window...oops...)