October 11th was our 1 year anniversary for being sealed as an eternal family, so we decided to take a drive up the mountains to see the fall colors. It was a nice idea but Charley didn't love driving in the car for such a long time. It was a good eye opener for any road trips we might want to take in the future!
One of the reasons I love fall is that it marks the beginning of the holiday season and I especially LOVE Halloween! I'm all about costume themes, so I was excited to dress my family in a theme this year! I found Charley's costume for a really great price, so it was a no brainer what we were going to be:
Charley was such a cute Supergirl!
We started a new tradition with my family since my mom always wants to see all of the grandkids in their costumes but it gets tricky with Halloween day being so busy. So we started a family Halloween party that we had a couple weeks before Halloween. We had our family's traditional sloppy joe dinner with apple cider and played some Minute To Win It games. I also set up a backdrop so we could all take pics of our costumes. All but 2 people were able to come..it was a lot of fun!
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| Scott and his family |
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| Steph, Mom & Dad |
The night before Halloween we went to our Ward Halloween Party and had fun with our ward family.
My nephew was baptized on Halloween, so we went down and spent the morning and afternoon with his family. Charley showed Papa Bill how much she loves bacon! She is eating solid food FINALLY!
Charley isn't at the age yet to go Trick or Treating, so we decided to enjoy handing out candy by setting up our outdoor fire pit and playing Halloween music. It was SO much better than jumping up and down to answer the door every 5 seconds!
We celebrated Thanksgiving twice this year. Kevin's brother came into with his family a couple weeks before Thanksgiving so we all got together up at his parents house and had an early Thanksgiving dinner. Kevin enjoyed spending time with his brothers (they went shooting while the wives stayed back and helped cooked the dinner.) We learned the hard way that Charley won't sleep unless she is home in her own bed, at least when it's ME trying to get her to take a nap! LOL
We celebrated Thanksgiving Day at my parent's house. We went over in the morning and spent the day helping prep for dinner. Papa Bill has the magic touch with getting Charley to sleep. I was in the kitchen making stuffing (after attempting multiple times to get her to lay down for a nap unsuccessfully) and Kevin tells me to come into the living room to see this:
She NEVER does this for me! And she knew immediately when he tried to lay her down in her pac n' play, so he was the official nap time holder (he didn't mind).
Thanksgiving was really fun...we all piled into the living room so that we weren't separated and all mingled and chatted while we ate. And my brother Scott was very accommodating when I told him we needed HOT rolls for dinner ;)
Afterwards, a few of the guys ran to Wal Mart to get some hot deals for Black Friday while the rest of stayed back and then we played some games to finish the night. It was a great holiday!
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| Thanksgiving 2015 |
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