It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas!

I am in the Christmas Mood! Last Monday we had the Cousin Gift Exchange with Nate's family. Justin and Kili (Nate's older brother and his wife) are spending Christmas in Brazil so we wanted to celebrate with them before they left. We started the evening at Kobe Steakhouse. Adelyn and Maddison thought that it was so fun to eat with Chop Sticks and watch the food get cooked at our table. After dinner we drove around the neighborhood and looked at all the fun Christmas lights. We ended up at our house for dessert and presents!

Guacamole and a new Tie

Yesterday was a good day for Benson. He looked so handsome wearing his first tie to church and he discovered a new favorite food...Guacamole.

Turkey Time

Wow what a week! Happy Belated Thanksgiving! We are so grateful for so many wonderful friends and family members! We Love you all very much! Anyways...Our family had a very fun and busy week. Nate had some business that he needed to take care of in Corpus Christi so the kids and I came along. We brought our bikes and rode along the beach at night. They have a really fun wooden park overlooking the bay so we stopped and played for a while! Last year we bought bikes for Christmas and it has been one of our favorite family activities. The kids have a bike trailer that connects to Nate's bike and they both love it! They usually fall asleep...so whenever we want the kids to go to bed early...we go on a bike ride!

We also thought that it would be fun to take Addy to the Aquarium. They have a lot of fun fish, sharks, alligators,turtles, and jelly fish to look at and a really fun dolphin show.

We got home from Corpus on Wednesday and started preparing for Thanksgiving on Thursday. We had to quickly run out and buy a new turkey because I was a genius and pulled the turkeys out of the freezer to thaw before we left and when we got home...the small turkey was spoiled! So thankfully I was able to thaw the new turkey over night and Thanksgiving was not ruined. We decided to try frying a turkey this year and it was soooo yummy. We injected the turkey with a creole butter sauce and rubbed the outside of the turkey with Cajun spices. We had a great day eating, watching movies, and celebrating my birthday!

Funny Kids!

This is Benson's favorite time of the day...Meal Time! We started Benson on solids about a month ago...It has been amazing not feeding him every 2 hours! I sometimes wonder if I was starving him because he eats a ton! The other day I fed him a bowl of rice cereal with a jar of apples mixed in...he was still hungry so we busted out a jar of peas...he still was hungry...so I nursed him...and then he was full!

There is nothing better than a laughing baby... I try all day long to get this kid to laugh and apparently I am not funny enough. When Nate gets home all he has to do is say hi to Benson and he cracks up. This boy loves his daddy. This video is also what Adelyn does on a daily basis...Dress up. I think she thinks that she really is a Disney Princess!

Fun, Family and Fall

I just wanted to start by catching up on our lives. Last month went by ssssssssssssoooooooo fast! We started the month in Las Vegas, California, and Utah. Nate had a business conference in Las Vegas and I didn't want to get left behind and since Sherese (my sister) lives there...we made it a family trip. We played hard in Vegas while Nate was in meetings, we went to Disney Land in California, spent time with family in Utah, and went to General Conference. We have now ended the month on a candy high with lots of Halloween!

Our First Post!

I have finally done it! We are officially blogging. I have been wanting to start a blog forever and finally mustered up enough patience to sit down and do it! It is still a work in progress, but we would love everyone to check it out every once and a while.