Christmas Traditions

If you are here to read our Christmas card, click HERE.

We love our Christmas traditions! This year we were able to add a few new ones with Ramsey. It's been such a joyous season!

The house is decorated on the inside.











I actually put my decorations up on November 1st this year! Crazy I know! But my mom was in town, and I thought I needed another hand to help with Ramsey so that was my only option.







We were away at Thanksgiving and left early for Christmas so this way we were able to enjoy everything longer. I loved it! I think I will be decorating early from now on. Maybe not November 1st early, but sooner than December.







Decorating Ramsey's room was my favorite!



I used all my old things that were appropriate for her.







We added new lights to our outdoor display. They are bright!

On Thanksgiving we gave Ramsey Christmas pajamas to wear all season long. And how cute is she?!



Ramsey has helped me with all the Christmas shopping.

We got Bahama Buck's and drove around to look at Christmas lights.

Ramsey met Santa!

We have baked some Christmas cookies.



We have attended our company Christmas parties.

We built gingerbread houses with the neighbors.



I clearly stink at taking pictures during our activities so this was me remembering to get a pic of Ramsey being there to help!

More Christmas light viewing.





Can you see all the silhouettes of people looking at these lights?! It was insane!! I thought there was a party or something, but it was really just people coming to see their lights!





We took our neighbors to see our favorite neighborhoods!



About half the houses in our neighborhood has lights up this year. I'm so impressed! But I guess this neighbor chose to give up!



We love to see the Chandler Tumbleweed Tree!

Next up, spend time with family. We have had a great time fitting everything in. Now we can just relax! Merry Christmas!!

Mom and Atlee visit!

My mom and Atlee visited over the weekend. Since Jadyn is still in China they thought it was time for a quick vacation for themselves. We had a great time! They got in Friday night, and we shared our yummy delicious ice cream we had last weekend!

Saturday we ran to do a little baby shopping, and then headed out to Saguaro Lake. We booked a cruise on the Desert Belle. The views were gorgeous!!

It was pretty hot, but the breeze helped a lot. And of course my spray fan I take with me everywhere!

We stopped at Bahama Buck's on our way home to help us cool off. Then we enjoyed some pool time!

That night we headed to the mall for dinner. We made a quick stop for Atlee to get her ears pierced!! We have been waiting on this for 4 1/2 years. It was a fun experience! 

Here we go! 

A little bit nervous! 

One down! 

And done!

We enjoyed The Cheesecake Factory that night. I now have enough leftovers for the whole week! Sunday we headed to church and then lunch at Cheddars. The girls got pedicures and did a little shopping. We also went to The House that night, and we all had a good laugh. We spent Monday morning running errands, and then they headed back to the rain storm that afternoon. Such a fun, but too quick trip!

December weekends

Hey guys! We hope you enjoyed our Christmas Home Tour. Today I am trying to get you all caught up on our life lately! As you know, my phone was broken for a while so I don't have any pictures from our fun trip back to Nebraska for Thanksgiving. We did some Black Friday shopping-well looking, mostly. We headed into Kohl's and the check out line literally wrapped around THE ENTIRE store!! I helped host a bridal shower for one of my friends. We had tons of fun, and she got some amazing gifts! We headed back to Arizona and back to real life. The weather dropped significantly and has been a little chilly. It has since warmed back up. Last weekend was busy, busy for us! We spent Friday night celebrating our favorite little two year old's birthday! We love living across the street from such great friends!

Can you tell she is loved?!? She got SSOOO many presents!

She LOVED unwrapping her presents!

Here she is putting on her tiara we got her as part of a princess costume.

She even started bringing over her own presents.

Hanging out with their fam!

She was loving her new kitchen!

She did take a minute to read a new book.

But then she got this car, and holy wow! She was in love! I got to drive her around the house for a while!

Abby loves mermaids so this was the perfect cake for her!

After the party we headed back home to finish decorating cookies for our first holiday boutique for our Cookie Pie business! So much frosting!!

Matt got tired really fast. Here he was showing off his "new" lanyard to hang his large iphone around his neck.

The bases were frosted!

Then the decorating began! I love this part! 

A few of our finished products!

We were up until 2 AM finishing things up! We arrived Saturday morning to see a nice big logo of our company on the sign!

We had our own little check out lane set up to try to gain a few extra clients on their way out the door!

Our table was all set up and ready to go!

We were overtired, but had the best time together! Matt had an awesome idea to have a page for testimonials after shoppers tried our samples. It has been so much fun reading through everyone's comments!

We had to leave the boutique early to head to a baby shower for some of our other neighbors. They had such a cute theme! They even did a photo booth!

If you haven't had the opportunity to do a photo booth with Matt, you are seriously missing out!

Sunday would have been a great day to relex, but we had more fun things to do! We put up our new chalkboard sign and baked Christmas cookies!!

I love Decembers!! Come back next week to see about another busy weekend of ours as well as our Christmas letter!