Magical

     Christmas is a magical time....

Dawson loves the tree!  Jesse and I had fun decorating it and Dawson had fun pulling and staring at it.

 
   This past weekend my sisters and I took my mom on a sleigh ride!  It was for her birthday and she loved it!  Riding on a sleigh was one thing that was on her bucket list!  Check that one off Mom!

  This was before the ride.  We didn't tell her what we were doing.....it was a surprise.  Then a guy came up to us and said, "are you guys waiting for the sleigh ride?"  haha!  My mom was so excited that she started to cry!

There wasn't a ton of snow, but we still had fun.  We sang Jingle bells!

Then we ate a yummy dinner up the hill.

   The night was full of laughing, singing, talking about our favorite Christmas memories and creating new memories!

Happy Birthday Momma!  I love you!

Jesse had surgery last week and Dawson loved having him home to hang out for the day....

Jesse loved it too.  Jesse always says to me, "Isn't having a kid fun?!"  I say....."Yes, it's the best"  :)

Dawson 

Loves people,

drools all the time (like huge puddles!),

hates being alone,

rolled over for the first time,

Loves being swaddled,

Smiles constantly,

sucks on his hands,

loves his stuffed animal dog,

loves his binky,

hardly ever cries,

loves hanging out with Daddy,

likes to talk (squeel),

loves the stroller and car seat (he falls asleep fast!),

laughs hard at Mom,

Loves shopping with Mom (I'm sure Jesse loves that one),

Loves baby lotion (Jesse loves that one too, hahah!)

likes "the jungle",

Sleeps through the night,

this is our little guy.....

Dawson is our sweet little angel. 

We love him!

Grateful.....

   This thanksgiving Jesse and I are most grateful for......

Our little Dawson!  We love him so much!
We had a really good thanksgiving at my mom's house.  We ate yummy food and played games!

 Then Jesse and I headed to St. George.....that is when this happened....

Yup a flat tire.  It totally exploded.  It was really scary, but I was very grateful that my hubby knew what to do!

He fixed it!
We didn't end up going to St. George.....sad day.  But Jesse still got to go dirt biking the next day!
   We are loving getting ready for Christmas.  It is fun having a home to decorate.  Jesse put up lights outside and I must say that it looks great!  I was a little scared of him on the roof in the dark though!

LOVE HIM!  :)

Snow Fall

    Last weekend we got a lot of snow!  So.....Friday night at midnight, Jesse and I pulled out our coats, gloves and boots to go and make this......

   This picture made me laugh really hard!  It was fun to make this huge snowman.  It was hard work, took a while!  The hardest part was finding pieces for his face!  We got creative and spray painted a cookie black for the eyes.
    Dawson has been enjoying the snow too!  He loves it already!

   My best friend gave him this snow suit and it's soooo cute on him!  It's great too, you can just plop in right in the snow!

    I went and worked out one night and came home to these two sleepy heads.

   I love finding this little guy in my bed.

      This is Dawson's favorite little doggie!  He loves it!

His Day

    We blessed Dawson this last Sunday and the day was perfect!  I loved every minute of it.  Jesse gave him a wonderful blessing and I felt the spirit all day long.  I am so blessed to have Dawson in my life.  I'm so grateful that I can be his mom.

   Everyone came to our house after and we ate lunch.  It was fun to chat and enjoy baby D.

    Four generation picture!  So neat.

Jesse's parents can't get enough of Dawson!

  
                   All my sisters, my mom and baby!  :)

    My cute kids came too!  Love them!  Dawson loves them too.
We loved his day.....when it was over I said to Jesse, "I'm sad it's over, but glad it was so great!"



   Well Dawson's first Halloween has come and gone.  It was so much fun dressing him up!  Jesse dressed up as buddy the elf for work....he looked exactly like him!

   On Halloween night we went over to Jesse's parents house and ate chili and played games.  It was fun and Dawson rocked his pumpkin outfit.  He is way too cute.....

     Dawson's room is done!  It took three months, but it is finally done!   I love the way it turned out.  He loves it too  :)   I love his name that I made.

    I love this kid  :)

   He looks like a little doll in this pic!  Shhhhh!

 

Pumpkins and parties!

     This weekend was really fun.  On Friday night we went to Logan and had our Halloween party at my Aunt RaNea's house.  It was a blast.  Everyone dressed up and looked awesome!  We ate yummy food, played games and watched a scary movie.
     Jesse and I were old people and Dawson was a tiger!

 Our cute little Tiger!  He didn't sleep much at this party.....he wanted to be a part of it!  Such a good little trooper.

        Now Jesse and I know what we are going to look like in 50 years.  haha!

    I love this party, I look forward to it every year and this year was lots of fun!

                                                           Everyone looked great!
Dawson and Jensen looked so cute.  Jensen was a puppy.  I love that he was sticking his tongue out like a dog!

     
      Then Sunday night we had a pumpkin carving party.  We do this every year as well and it is a blast.  This was Jesse's first time going.  His pumpkin was awesome!  He got 2nd place!  Good Job!

                                           This is Jesse's pumpkin spider!  I think this picture is awesome

       My pumpkin was funny.  To be honest I don't really like carving pumpkins, so mine are always easy!
Kaylee's pumpkin got first place!  Her pumpkin had cool light brights poked in it.  Really cute.  I got 4th place!  (which won me a ring pop!)

 This is Mel's and Barb's.....theirs are always cool

                          It was fun just hanging out!


Than......look what we did!!!!  He hated it, but look how cute it is!

                                                                    Our little pumpkin!!!!


We put Jensen in too.  He liked it, he was smiling!

 

   To say the least......we had too much fun.  :)  I love my fam