Merry Christmas

HO HO HO!

Every year Jake's mom's family has a Christmas party get together. This was our year to host. Jake's mom did an awesome job of planning! We had breakfast with Santa! we all dressed up as elf's and had a blast.

When Santa came Carson didn't know what to think! He kept staring at him. but he didnt want to get to close to him. so instead I sat on Santa's lap for him

Here's the gang with Santa and Mrs. Clause

Carson had a ton of fun playing with all the cousins. He was so handsome in his christmas outfit!

Temple Square

We didn't make it to Temple square last year to see the lights because Carson was so small, so we made sure to go this year.   It is absolutely gorgeous!  I'm always amazed at how they string the lights on EVERY branch of EVERY tree.  It was Carson heaven.  (anyone who knows Carson, know's how much he LOVES lights)

We had a hard time getting him to look at the camera instead of at the trees.  and we forgot our camera so all the pictures we took with Jake's phone, so they're a little blurry

It turned out to be a nice night.  It was about 20 degrees warmer than it has been.  our only problem was fighting the crowds

 It was pretty neat to see all the different nativities they had.  it looked like they were all from different countries.  I didnt get any pictures of them. you can kind of see the one behind us in the reflection pool

The Salt Lake temple is my favorite.  It has so much history and its beautiful!  

Snow

I had to shovel our driveway so I got Carson all decked out in his snow gear for the first time. He looked so cute!

He could only walk on the driveway though. if he tried to go onto the grass he would just fall. but he LOVED being outside. I was worried his hands would be cold because he kept tipping over and getting them covered in snow and he doesn't have very thick gloves but he was fine!

I made a video of him trying to shovel the snow. He was having a lot of fun until he tried to go on the grass and face planted. He actually didn't cry until he couldn't get back up. then I went to help him and his little cheeks were covered in snow. when I picked him up he had this huge smile and wanted the shovel back.

Deck The Halls!

We finally got our Christmas tree up and decorated. we were originally going to put Carson to bed before we decorated just because we thought he would make it hard by pulling them all off. but when we tried he wasn't ready. he could hear the Christmas music playing outside his room and wanted to go out and investigate so we let him come and see.

He came and grabbed an ornament and carried it around following me from the tree to the ornament box. then we showed him how to put them on the tree.

He thought that was even better. He's so cute. we are reminded daily why we love that little boy so much!

2nd Thanksgiving

We didn't get to see Jake's Grandma Pat, Dad and little brothers for Thanksgiving since we were out of town so we decided to host a feast at our house for them.  I have never made thanksgiving by myself before so I was a little nervous. but it turned out great!  Our camera hasn't been taking very good pictures lately so its pretty blurry but you can still see it a little.