Happy Thanksgiving!!

Wow, Thanksgiving has come and gone and now it's December! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I love reminding myself through out the month of November what I am thankful for, here are a few:

1. My family. My amazing husband. My beautiful daughter. And for all they do for me to help me be a better wife, mother, daughter, and person.

2. My "other family" ;) My mom, my dad, my siblings, my in laws, my nieces. Family is so wonderful and I love each one of them so much. They are the best family I could ask for!

3. Our baby boy. We have about one month exactly until we get to meet our baby boy. Again, I'll be induced (like with Katelyn) if he doesn't come before then. We are very excited and this last month is going to be very busy with Christmas, Katelyn's birthday, and the birth of our new baby.

4. The Gospel. Since being a mother I have relied on the power of prayer for so many things. I'm so glad I have the knowledge of the Gospel in my life and can use it to know how to raise my children and become a better wife and mother.


This year for Thanksgiving we stayed in Oklahoma again. We rented a cabin awhile ago with a group of friends and so that is how we spent our Thanksgiving. It was a lot of fun and nice to be out of the house and internet free, just away from the every day world and enjoy the beautiful outdoors!
It was so beautiful up there. We enjoyed the nature and taking a lot of pictures outside. Katelyn had tons of fun, I think there were like 8 kids total. She had a blast chasing them all around.
Here are some pictures:

 Ready to go outside!

 Having fun with the kids

 Trying to hula hoop.. I tried showing her then realized it doesnt work well with a huge belly.. haha

Turkey balloon hat! One of the husbands does balloon making for a hobby and he made all the little kiddos these cute turkey hats... I was impressed with his patience and the kids attacking him, they loved it!

 Taking a nice trip outdoors

Katelyn with her friend Blake. She has so much fun with him and they play so well together.

 Trying to get them both to look.. haha not going to happen

 Almost, they're still cute anyways :)

 Going down to the river

 There they are again checking out the water.. so cute.

Trying to touch the water

 Nick pretending to toss Katelyn in

 Family photo.. Katelyn's ready to take off running

Nick, Katelyn, and I taking a walk outside right around the cabin. It was so pretty

 The trees were still beautiful and it was just nice and relaxing to be outdoors!

 Katelyn loves taking walks

 HI... don't know what to call that face :)

 Weeee

 Love her

 Love him :) (Nick grew out his beard for MOvember)

Piggy back

Happy to be carried

 Daddy's turn to carry her

 Playing on the playground just outside the cabin

 Going down!

 She had a lot of fun

 Saying goodbye..

I'm really glad we decided to go. It was fun to spend time with friends and enjoy the beautiful nature. Happy Thanksgiving!

Visitors! :)

I previously mentioned that my sister and her family were coming into town soon. Well, they came. And they left. The whole THREE weeks went by so fast. And now I can't believe it just came and went, just like that.

We had so much fun together. Mostly just hanging out every day talking about mom stuff, crafts, or random stuff girls can talk about all day. I didn't mind just sitting around the house all day, just having the company was awesome.

I got to spend a lot of time and give big squishy kisses to this little girl:

ooo, I could just squish those little cheeks all day!

Katelyn LOVED having Ellie around. Which I find a good thing considering the baby will be coming soon.

I think at times Ellie thought "Ok.. Mom.. Aunt Dana... who's gonna save me here?" Katelyn liked to get really close to her and call her name "Ellie! Ellie!" or pat her head, squish her cheeks, tickle her toes. It was cute, but I'm sure Ellie was wondering why she was being attacked haha.

 

One day we had to give Ellie a bath. I told Katelyn we were going to bathe Ellie and she got really excited. Then she realized it was JUST Ellie getting a bath and she started crying asking if she could go in. I had already given her a bath earlier that morning, but I decided it wouldn't hurt to let her go in again! They had a lot of fun and Katelyn kept trying to put water on Ellie's head to help clean her. 

They were here during Halloween and that was a lot of fun. Katelyn likes to squish cheeks.. I think she might get that from her Uncle Ike... Although I really like to squish and kiss her cheeks too. So she tried it out on Ellie...

 poor Ellie can't stop the torture

 but they love each other :)

We also both got a date night! We switched one weekend and watched each others kid so the other couple could go out. It was really nice because Nick and I don't get date night often. We had a lot of fun with Matt & Lu & Ellie!! So glad they could come!!

It was sad that they had to leave, but in a month I will see them AND all of my family again in Colorado for my brothers wedding! I'm so excited to see everyone since we won't be traveling any where else after that because the baby is coming.

Halloween!

Halloween was quite fun this year. We had a ton of activities going on and it was a busy and fun weekend. I liked dressing up as a kid and going out trick or treating, but I think it excites me even more that we get to dress up our own kid (and myself :) ) and share all the fun with her!

Katelyn was Minnie Mouse for Halloween. She loves Minnie. I attempted to make her a costume, which turned out, but I was also sent one from my awesome cousin. So she had two to wear (which was a good thing because right before we went out to one of the activities she got one costume dirty and we had to change it).

We did a few different things:
Friday night- Storybook forest
Saturday night- Ward Halloween party
Monday night- Neighborhood block party & trick or treating

My sister of course was (is) in town so that was even better!
Here are some pictures from all the events!

Getting ready to go out

Her trick or treat bucket

CHEESE!

With lil lady bug cousin Ellie!

Katelyn has this little thing where she likes to squeeze cheeks... :)

Here's the costume I made her

Getting her all ready and bundled up, luckily it wasn't too cold

Storybook forest, this year she could go up all by herself and get the candy, such a big girl

Playing a bean bag toss game

Ward Halloween party

Let's dance!

Dancing with daddy

Katelyn didn't want to stop. As soon as we sat down and let her go she ran right back up in the crowd and started dancing away. It was so cute.

She would copy everyone.. and she'd clap when the crowd would clap, she'd slide to the left (after everyone) when the song said "slide to the left" she is quite the little party gal.

Dancing with Mickey Mouse!

Our trunk or treat. Nick did a Christmas theme :) haha, with a little tree and lights and snow. He was a ski bum, I thought it all worked out great.

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Going on a hayride at our neighborhood block party

That's all for Halloween. I love this time of year and can't wait for all the other events like.. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Katelyn's birthday, New Years, and then.. another baby! BUSY busy.