Christmas time 2011!

I've been so busy getting ready for Christmas and the baby I keep forgetting to post pictures. Here are some good pics of us preparing for the holidays. So this will be a little catch up from Thanksgiving to Christmas cookie making, which happened yesterday.

This was on Thanksgiving day! We enjoyed a nice family dinner with my sister, Cortney, her husband and his family. Josie fell in love with Eddie's little niece, Emma!

The day after Thanksgiving we had Thanksgiving ,Part 2 at our house. I cooked all the things Rich likes to eat and we decorated for Christmas. Josie's friend Julia came over to help.

Here they are playing under the tree.

Here they are making a ginger bread man craft.

The finished product!

Josie always gives Santa about a minute before she starts crying.

She is obsessed with my nutcracker and angel decorations.

Josie posing in her Christmas dresses. She made me search for the Santa hat before I could take any pictures.

Cookie Time!


The finished product!



We hope everyone has a safe and fun holiday. The next update will probably be after our little boy is born.

Halloween!!

Happy Halloween!!
Here are some pictures of our day.

Halloween festivities start-up!!

We made Halloween cookies early so that we would have them for the Halloween weekend.




The start to our Halloween weekend was Josie's Halloween party at MyGym. For the second year in a row she won the costume contest which included a free parent's night out for Rich and I. Rich and Josie had to go without me because I had to work but Josie told me all about it the next morning.


I think she was a little worn out by this point in the night.


These glasses were one of the prizes she won in her goody bag from MyGym.


We spent Saturday morning at Buchelew Farm and picked pumpkins.



Somehow this is the best picture that was taken on Josie and I.



We finally got another family picture together!





Josie enjoyed playing peek-a-boo more then actually putting her face in the holes for the cutouts.

Of course there was a petting zoo. Maddy had to take her in though because my allergies were too much for me to do it.




Rich and Josie set behind this tractor together last year, so I had to get them to do it again.


So, that's our weekend so far. We still have another party to go to and trick or treating. There will be more pictures to come.

New baby!

Here is the first picture of our new addition. We can't wait to find out if it's a boy or girl. Now that Josie has seen the ultrasound, she is starting to believe that there is a baby in there.

Prescott Valley Balloon Festival 2011

We had so much fun this weekend in Prescott. I think our favorite part was that it was almost 30 degrees cooler there. We got to see 18 balloons go up the first day, It got to windy the second day for any of them to go up but Josie did get to go inside one of the balloons that they attempted to send up. We also went to the little fair in town and Josie was old enough and tall enough to ride the rides by herself. I can't believe how big she is getting.

This was by far her favorite ride. She went on it multiple times and finally stopped calling it a choo-choo and called it a train. She tried to be the driver every time.


Check Josie out on the elephant ride. All by herself again!


Rich went with her on the bear ride and thank God he did because her arm got caught when she was spinning it and she fell on the floor. No injuries but she was very excited to tell me the story when she got off.

Saturday morning Josie was not super excited to be woken up early. But after this picture she really got excited about being there. She told everyone. "Balloons up, Balloons down." She has already learned the important lesson what goes up, must come down.


This is the balloon we were there with. Dan the pilot is in the balloon and his wife, Laurie is helping get it up right. You can see Rich to the left of the picture.


Dan really had to work to get his balloon to clear the one below.



Josie and Maddy in the balloon the second day. Normally you can't walk inside balloons, it does to much damage. This group brought one of their old balloons so that all the tourists could see the inside of a balloon since none of the balloons were able to fly do to high winds.


I think my family has fallen in love with ballooning. It looks like we may be taking a trip to Albuquerque in October for the big festival there. A few hundred balloons are involved with that festival and it's supposed to me absolutely amazing to see.