Let the Christmas Season begin

We have a special tradition in our family that after Thanksgiving we read a special story from Mom and Dad that has a deeper Christmas meaning. They give us money that we get to use for a present for Jesus and write a letter to Jesus to let Him know what we did for Him this Christmas season. So we all gathered together to open our special Christmas boxes and we also had a visit from a particular holiday visitor. The kids were in heaven.... maybe not Brielle as much as the others. 

Thanksgiving Festivities

We had such an amazing, fun filled weekend with our amazing family. We were so blessed to get to spend the Thanksgiving weekend with my amazing grandparents from Idaho. I can't remember the last Thanksgiving we got to spend with Grandma and Grandpa Thomas. It was very special. We also had the opportunity to have Dalene and Brian and Rachel as well. And we also got to add Jeff's parents and brother to the Thanksgiving festivities. It was an amazing weekend! We also were blessed to go Saturday up to Monroe to spend an awesome post-Thanksgiving party with the Johnson side of the family. 

 Brielle wanted to take a picture of Teona. i thought it was pretty good and worth adding :)

Newborn

Kaesha had a sweet baby girl- Laraya and Kaesh asked me to take some newborn pics. I love taking newborn shots so of course I agreed. She was wide awake the entire time so we got to see her beautiful eyes but no sleepy poses... maybe later :) But here are a few of my favorites. 

Hiking

We went  hiking with some friends last weekend and I just got around to editing the pictures. Here are a few pics of our adventure out hiking Chuckawalla (in Snow Canyon).

Last few days in Kingman

The day before we left Kingman Skylee was awarded a Terrific kid award from her class. I love how she compares to all the other first graders. We may be small in our family but we are not small in spirit ;)

Since we were leaving before Halloween, it was tradition to always go to our amazing friends, Shelly and Johnny's house for Halloween, so we took the kids a few days early for trick or treating. Shelly shared an office with Jeff and her parents lived next door to us. They were such amazing friends, we sure will miss them!

Halloween 2014

We moved back to St. George the night before Halloween this year so we spent our Halloween in SG. Skylee decided to dress as a cat, Jaston a dinosaur and Brielle was forced to be a lady bug (She wasn't necessarily thrilled with this idea). And of course we have our little Miss Brinlee who is a bee. Overall it was a great night :)