Warm Winter- December 2014

It has been such a mild winter so far! Not that I am complaining! At least we got snow on Christmas! Anyway, a lot went on in the month of December and I am so excited to share!

We kicked off the month with Abe's birthday! We were able to put together an awesome Moustache birthday party for him!

Tyson's work had a really fun party. It was 20s Casino Night! We had so much fun dressing up and gambling!

We were able to go to a charity event as a family called the Beard Bash. It was a lot of fun. The kids got to see cool motorcycles, Tyson participated in a beard contest and we got to see Santa!

We spent Christmas Eve up at the Ellis homestead with Nana and Papa. This year has been so fun with Abe explaining to Monet how things work and how they need to be good for Santa to come. Abe was so worried Santa was going to skip us not knowing we weren't at home that I had to make a special phone call to Santa and let him know we would be with Nana and Papa that night rather than at our house.

The kids got in their jammies and went to bed without a fuss!

Santa came!

Of course we had to take some stair photos before letting the kids go up to see the gifts! Where does this tradition come from!?! We did hallway pictures, everyone I know does hallway or stair pictures!

Monet wasn't happy about having to work to get up the stairs.

It was a white Christmas!

After we had Christmas morning with the Ellis family we had to rush home to make dinner for the Crown family! Our first time hosting Christmas dinner and I think it was wonderful! I always love having family over and it just feels so special when that happens on the holidays.

We then were able to host a reunion party for the Madrigal group I was a part of in High School. It was so much fun to have some of us there together, see kids that we have, catch up on where life has taken us. 

There were a few days of snow where we could play outside! Abe LOVED it!

Monet, not so much......

We tried to go to a movie as a family. It started out really well and the kids were enjoying themselves..... Then about halfway through the movie we left because the kids would not sit still and we were bugging everyone in the whole theater! Maybe in a few years.....

We ended the month and the year with Tyson's birthday. It was his Golden birthday this year so we had a golden celebration! Complete with a golden cheesecake!

We played games all night with great friends!

Finished off the year celebrating with friends that we love!

Full of Thanks- November 2014

We had an amazing month of November! Full of family and parties and FOOD. It was wonderful!

We were able to get together with the Ellis side of our family multiple times over the month of November. One of these instances we were able to get a picture of all of the grandbabies! So much fun to see all of these cousins together. Abe and Monet love to play with cousins!

Monet turned one and we were able to celebrate all day long. We started with her favorite breakfast, scrambled eggs!

I spent time making a smash cake, some mini cupcakes and other mini treats for our Minnie Mouse Tea Party!

 While I was cooking and prepping, Abe read Monet some of her favorite books. It was so fun to see them together with books spread out on the floor. I have a picture, similar to this one, of me reading a book to my little brother. Makes me smile that these kids will be friends growing up!

 Monet had a special Minnie Mouse skirt to wear!

 And of course we had a party!

 CAKE!

 We call these three, "the triplets". Three cute little girls who I hope grow up to be close friends.

We decorated for Christmas!

 Nikki and Bryan hosted the Crown Family Thanksgiving this year and it was DELICIOUS! Nikki is quite the amazing cook and hostess!

And, in true Crown fashion, we had a pinata!

 These kids really love their Grami and Grandpa!

We had such a fun month, and so many good times with the people we love. The Holidays are really a great time for us!

Booooo! October 2014

Well we really started October out with a BANG! I was putting Abe down for a nap. He was really excited to climb into bed and jumped under the covers, but on his way down he hit his head on the headboard and got a cut right below his eyebrow. I don't have much experience with stitches so I sent Tyson a picture asking if Abe would need any. Tyson rushed home and we took Abe to the InstaCare where he got 3 stitches!

Abe was really brave the whole time! Tyson was able to hold his hand and help him keep calm while the dr worked so close to his eye. 

Abe didn't let his stitches slow him down! The very next day we were playing and running around Cornbellys! He had so much fun!

Monet enjoyed being out in the sun and playing. Here is a side by side of the kids around the same ages at Cornbellys! So cute those little siblings!

Abe and I got in trouble because I was too big for the bounce thing.....

All in all it was a wonderful day!

Abe got his stitches out and was very brave again!

We had a Boo-tique at our house with lots of different sellers. Of course I had my Posh friends there with me!

Had a Fall photo shoot on our front porch! Look at all those pumpkins we grew in our garden!

My Perfectly Posh team got together for a girls night. We tried a few of the new products and just had fun! This is my favorite thing about this business, playing with my friends.

As a family we went to Evan's Family Farm! We were able to run around and really enjoy ourselves.

Abe even got to ride the pony! He LOVED it!

Grami Tami had her first knee replacement. The kids and I were able to visit her in the hospital.

Of course we had to carve the pumpkins we had grown! Mostly I was the one to do all the gutting and the carving.....

Naturally I had to make some posh pumpkins!

We went trick-or-treating and the kids had a blast! I love my little matching kids!