Getting ready for Christmas

I love the Christmas season!  I love decorating the house and shopping for gifts!  Since James is a little older I was excited to get him more involved with all the festivities.  Its been fun to do stuff with him.  We went to Cabela's on Saturday and saw Santa. He was not a fan.  At all!  Poor boy.  It was still fun though.  James has really gotten into opening gifts.  My mom sent up a bunch of presents up and James decided to open them.  Yes now they are hiding.  Here is the evidence!

 Seriously not a fan of Santa.

 

 

 

 

 

 This is a bonus video.  James REALLY wanted to help with the dishes.  It was so funny to watch!

Oh that face!

I did this post a little while ago but just didn't post it.  James is growing up so fast!  He no longer looks like a baby.  He definitely has a little boy face and oh my it is so cute!

Thanksgiving 2012

This year we headed down to Blanding for Thanksgiving.  It was a blast!  Almost everyone was there so it was very crowded but it also meant that James had a lot of cousins to play with.  We did a lot of fun things besides eating turkey dinner.  James loved the leaves and played in them everyday.  We went hiking one day and played fun games at the church.  One of my favorite things about going home is when the kids are in bed the adults like to sit and chat.  We always end up laughing so hard we start crying.  Overall it was such a great vacation and it gets us excited for our next vacation....Alaska!

I love this! Grandpa and James climbing the tree.

Oh that tongue.

Take that leaves.

Go long, Dad!

Liz is such an awesome cousin to play with!

These next few are my favorite!

See mom, I got a rock.

Lots of snow and smiles

Over the weekend it snowed a lot.  Like 8" and that is for real.  We took James out to play in it.  He LOVED it. The cold didn't even seem to phase him.  He would stick his whole face in the snow.  We loved watching him.

The tongue has been a recent discovery.

Melts my heart!

Oh snap.

James was also being a real goof today.  It was a good photo shot opportunity.  James provided some adorable smiles and tongue.  I couldn't resist putting all these pictures up.  They were just too cute to not share.

Halloween 2012

Normally I'm not much of a Halloween fan but this year with James was so much fun.  For a long time I couldn't decide what he dress him up as (I am not a fan of dressing up and won't do it unless forced to.) until we were at Costco.  They had the cutest costumes: a raccoon, a dragon, a tiger, a lion and many more.  I was looking at them and showing them to James.  He didn't really care until I showed him the lion one.  He got so excited.  Side note, James loves lions.  He loves pictures of lions and he loves when you roar like a lion.  Anyway he feel in love with the lion costume (It may or may not have been because I roared at him when I showed it to him.) and I knew it was the one.  And it was.  He loves that lion outfit.  For days he would bring us the jacket part to put on him and he would run around the house wearing his lion.

We took him trick-or-treating at Maceys which was fun.  He was pretty excited about the candy but Katie was the best.  She would go up the people with candy and say, "Trick-or-treat, give me something good to eat!"  I also found out that Provo Center Street also does trick-or-treating so we went.  The pharmacy I work is on Center Street and those wonderful ladies loaded James up.  We then went and hit up numerous other stores.  James was so excited about all the candy he was getting (Little did he know that he was not going to eating all of it, not even close.  Mommy and daddy had claim.) and would reach his little hand in and grab as much candy as he could.  It was way more fun going with James than I ever remember as a kid.  Maybe next I'll actually dress up.  Who am I kidding? Yeah right.  Anyway here are some cute photos of the lion.

Cutest lion!

So James has this lamb that plays music.  To say that he loves it would be an understatement.  Kenneth had the idea for James to go as the lion and the lamb.  It was cute.

Pure love.

He's eating his favorite part, the string on the lamb's head.

We also carved a pumpkin.  I thought James would be way more into it than he was.  He was interested in the pumpkin but was hesitant and would not touch the pumpkin insides to save his life. 

This is as close as he got.  I tried to bribe him to stick his hand in.  It worked for about 2 seconds.

Edible Playdough and a dump truck

One day a week or so ago I decided I really wanted to make pumpkin rolls but they take a really long time.  I needed something to entertain James for at least a little while while I worked on the rolls.  I made him some edible play dough thinking that he would have fun playing with it before he figured out he could eat it.  I was wrong, really wrong.  I gave him the play dough then went and started the yeast.  I started the yeast and mixing the dry ingredients when James started whining.  I looked up to see the play dough was already gone and a seriously messy child.  Its a good thing I didn't give him all the play dough.

So I got him all cleaned up and gave him a bunch of toys to play with.  Its a good thing he loves his toys so much.  I finished the rolls, the whole time James played with his toys.  He most especially loves his dump truck and his puppet animals.  He puts the animals in the back of the truck and drives them around the house.  Needless to say, it is adorable!

The Pumpkin Patch

Gregg and I thought it would be fun to take James to a pumpkin patch.  It was a blast.  They had a petting farm with piglets, calves, chickens, and goats.  James was not afraid of any of the animals and got right down in their faces.  He even headed-butted a goat in the butt.  He gotten licked and nibbled on by one of the calves, chased a rooster and stepped in poop (Cute.).  He got to go down the big slide with dad and play in the pumpkins which he loved.  We tried to have him walk through the kid maze made of small hay bales but he got mad because he could see the goats but couldn't get to them.  We also went on the hayride.  James loved that too and had no problem standing up with no assistance on the very bumpy ride.

Like I said, not even scared.

Hanging out with his new friends.

Trying to get out to get to the goats.

This expression is new, we love it!

Cutest little glare.