It's Christmas Time!

Honestly my favorite part about Thanksgiving is that the next day you can officially start celebrating Christmas without people hating you. I LOVE Christmas. I am sooo glad it is Christmastime!

Me and David both had the day after Thanksgiving off. We had no desire to do any shopping so we devoted the day to Christmas. We got up, put on some Christmas music, made some cinnamon rolls for breakfast and put up our tree and our decorations.

She was very helpful

Later that day we made gingerbread houses! Austyn had a lot of fun and made a huge mess.

We went for a wonderful drive that night to look for Christmas lights. Austyn loved to point them out. We came home to our beautiful Christmas tree. We have decided to start a new tradition for our kids this year. We are going to kick off the Christmas season with a couple gifts. Some Christmas jammies to wear all season and a book about Jesus to remind us what Christmas is all about. Austyn saw the presents under the tree as soon as we walked through the door and wasted no time in opening them.

We had such a fun day celebrating the Christmas season. We are going to try to make the most of it because it goes by so fast.

Thanksgiving

This year on Thanksgiving I started the day by going to work at the assisted living I work at. It really isn't to bad working on Thanksgiving. It was fun to see all the residents go out with their families. Afterwards I met up with David and Austyn at David's Mom's. We had so much fun eating and laughing and playing. My favorite part was watching Austyn have so much fun with her cousin Henry! It was a great Thanksgiving.

Halloween

Halloween this year was so great. We dressed up Austyn as Super Austyn! and she looked so cute in her little shirt and cape and cuffs. We went trick or treating first to the Morgan business trick or treating. We went with lots of family which was so fun.

We had lots of fun with our family trick or treating but it was soo crowded. I think we will skip the business trick or treat next year.

Next we went to my parents and carved pumpkins! Austyn wasn't really into scooping the guts out so David, Erin, and I just had fun carving.

 We decided after carving to do a little more trick or treating to the neighbors houses. We were only going to do a few but we had so much fun we ended up doing lots of trick or treating. It was SO fun. Austyn had so much fun ringing the doorbell and getting the candy. Halloween was so great this year. It is so much more fun now that we have Austyn. I can't wait until next year!

Camping

We had so much fun on our first ever camping trip as a family! We went up to Trial Lake in the Uintas.  Austyn was in heaven climbing and exploring and getting dirty. We ate tin foil dinners, pancakes, hot dogs, MRE's, and marshmallows. We went on lots of walks around the campground and by the lake. We also went a a great hike to the Provo River Falls. We did get rained on and ended up coming home a little early but we had a great time and can't wait to go again!

Helping dad unload

Checking out the campsite

Her favorite thing was throwing rocks in the water

MRE's!

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