Thanksgiving Week

This year we spent Thanksgiving with my family. And as the tradition goes, my mom's parents and my mom's brother and his family always come out to Colorado for the week. It was a fun filled busy week! My grandparents came in on Monday and my aunt and uncle came Tuesday. The girls went shopping on Tuesday and then we all went out to dinner. Wednesday we went to Itz with the kids and spent the afternoon there. My mom and I had fun bowling in the kid lanes :)

Isaac and Ava...Isaac loved playing with my cousins!

And surprisingly, Isaac was pretty good at the car driving arcade! Look how focused he is!

It was different to spend Thanksgiving with my family when we had our own house to stay at. It definitely has some pros and cons. So we started some Thanksgiving traditions that I want to remember. On Thanksgiving day we got up and watched the Macy's parade and put up Christmas decorations in the house. It was really fun. Then around 1:30 we headed over to my parents in time to watch the Cowboy's game. :) We (ok, I) ate way too much, cleaned up, watched more football, then went home. Here is Isaac and Ava by my parents Christmas tree.

Then on Friday, I did the Black Friday shopping! I met a friend of mine at Kohl's at 5 a.m. I didn't think it was too bad but when we started to leave it got busier, so perhaps it is worth it to get up early! Then I came home, woke Taylor up and while he put lights on the house, I decorated our tree. I thought I'd take a picture of him on our roof so I could send it to his mother! Not to worry though Suzanne, he was safe and never slipped or fell! I was so worried though...I kept going out to make sure he was ok...he was probably so annoyed by my, "Honey? How ya doin??" :) It's scary having him on the roof! Our neighbors couldn't believe Taylor put the lights on the roof--they thought for sure we hired someone else to do it.

Isaac is our moving decoration :)

Then Friday afternoon we took all the kids to the North Pole. The funny thing is, BOTH Taylor and I have been there when we were younger, so we were pretty excited to go with our son. Isaac LOVED it!! We started on the ski lift that goes over the train and the train tracks (FYI, Isaac LOVES all things train) so he thought that was so cool. He rode with my parents.

Then, the TRAIN ride. :) Isaac really liked it.

Taylor took Isaac on the carousel, again, Isaac loves to point out and say "horse" whenever we see one, so he loved this as well.

However, Taylor taught Isaac to stick his tongue out when I was taking pictures....so then Isaac did it ALL the time!!

Proof:

And again....

And again...

But, luckily, it wasn't EVERY picture!

It was a lot of fun to go to the North Pole and Isaac definitely loved it. Then on Saturday, the boys went hunting, I got a massage, we took family pictures (the three of us) and then watched the blessed BYU vs. Utah game...and, BYU won!! (my aunt and uncle are big Ute fans...even brought Utah shirts for the whole family!) It was a great ending to a fun-filled, busy week!!

Week BEFORE Thanksgiving

Wow, I am behind. Kept wanting to post about the week before Thanksgiving but every time I sat down to do it my camera was somewhere else and by the time I went to get my camera, I found something else that needed my attention. So...now it is time to catch up.

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I organized a "Thanksgiving Craft" morning with several moms and kids in our area. In total, there were 6 adults, 7 toddlers/preschoolers and 3 babies. We made turkeys by tracing the kids hands and then edible turkeys with oreos. All in all, I think the kids would have thought it was just as fun to just play with the toys and each other. :) But it was a lot of fun and hopefully we can do a Christmas themed one in the next coming weeks as well!

Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures until after some people left. So here are some of the kiddos with their turkeys

The finished products:

Then on Thursday, our dear sweet friend Patsy came back into town! She moved this summer and came back to see us! We started the fun girls weekend off by going to the midnight showing of New Moon. I couldn't believe I was really going to the midnight showing--I'm not a die hard fan or anything-- but those kind of things are fun to do once in a while. Got to bed at 4 a.m. and up by 9 a.m....not bad but that's why I'll do it once in a while. :)
The following day we met for dinner at Biaggi's.

It was so great to see you Patsy and to get together! I wish we could see you more often!! Our turn next to come see you! And while I was doing all this fun girls night out stuff....Taylor was in Utah for one of his buddies weddings. So it worked out pretty well...especially to have my family close to help watch Isaac.

Weekend in Review

Friday night was our Relief Society Holiday Dinner (all women in our ward ages 18 and older) ... it was a great night, especially to be amongst friends...not to mention the food was delicious.

Saturday was a low-key day. Taylor started the morning off with a church meeting and that afternoon we went to the AFA vs. UNLV football game. My parents were out of town so my sister and her husband and us went. Before the game they cater food...here's Isaac "cheesing" for me...actually pausing from hitting the balloons to cheese. :)

And Sunday...well we got a snow storm Saturday evening and at 8:10 this morning, we got a call saying church was cancelled. Taylor went out and plowed our driveway and these pictures are of Isaac watching him.

So it was a restful, peaceful weekend. ...gotta love them!

"That was totally WICKED"

Can you name the movie where the title of this post is inspired from?? .... "The Incredibles"... :)

On Friday night we went and saw Wicked in Denver...it was AWESOME!!! Taylor had a business trip Thursday-Friday and was able to meet us at the theater in time for the show, but wasn't able to go to dinner. Luckily there was an extra ticket in our group, so my mom gladly took the extra and joined me and the Harline family for dinner! It was a GREAT night!!!

One side of our table at dinner... me, Jordan and Kenzie. (Yes, I dyed my hair back to brown...hallelujah! No more maintenance of blonde highlights!)

The other side of the table...Steve, Cindy and my mom.

Our whole table. Dinner was yummy :)

After the show with our good friends Daniel and Stephanie.

Wicked was AWESOME!!!

HALLOWEEN 2009

Also on this last Friday was our ward's Halloween party. We've had Isaac's costume for at least a month or so, and I was curious to see how he'd like it. It included a hat and typically he is NOT a hat wearer, he always pulls it off as soon as we put it on him...but he surprised me and wore his hat all night long...it was great!!! Keeping in true Isaac fashion, he was a "Choo Choo Train Conductor" and he LOVED his costume!!!

Here he is saying "choo! choo!"



Posing for me by some of our Halloween decorations...


And speaking of decorations...this was about as "festive" as we got this year, but I loved it! Got the sign for a great price and the fall garland for 50% off from Micheal's. I bought a bag of mini pumpkins from the grocery store for cheap and then I filled vases I had on hand with black beans, tied ribbon around it and called it good...
Back to Halloween pictures...Nana and Papa stopped by to see Isaac in his costume...

Isaac and I.

He loved his bucket...although at this point he didn't know what it was for...

Gave his pumpkin a kiss... haha!

Papa put the first candy in...as soon as Isaac got that bag of M&M's, he would have been good to call it a night. He thought that was great and enough. :) Funny story...he asked my mom to open the candy and I said that he had to wait until we had some dinner so my mom responds to Isaac, "You need to ask Mom if you can have it" to which Isaac replied, "No, Nana..." Apparently he knows that Nana is a softy!!

After our mini-photo shoot at our house, we went to the church building for the carnival games... some sort of bean toss I think...

Bowling...

And fishing...
And a picture with daddy (who was at the church helping set up when we took our mini photo shoot at home)

This is Mason, one of Isaac's favorite buddies.

LOVE this picture.

And then some trunk-or-treating... which coincidentally was not only Isaac's first time going TRUNK-or-treating, but also Taylor's! :)

And lastly, I had to throw in these pictures. For those of you who don't know, my dad is a bishop of a singles ward here. (people between the ages of 18-30) and their singles ward had a Halloween party and my parents dressed up as Mr. and Mrs. Incredible....want proof?? Here it is!

Since Isaac LOVES the movie "The Incredibles" they stopped by to show him. Love it!!

Two Year Well Check Up

On Friday Isaac and I went to the doctor's office for his two-year check up. He is the 30% for his weight, 60% for his height and 50% for his head. He looks great--and I really like our doctor.

I love this picture so I had to share...Isaac would climb up on the chair and open the door and stick his head out...as if to say, "Hurry up nurse and get these shots over with!" He did have three shots...he did not like them at all...he kept saying "owie!" all morning.

But he is so stinkin cute! :)

And a mommy-son picture moment! :)

Still can't believe that I have a child, a son to be exact, and that he is TWO!!! Oh how I (we) love him!!!