It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like...

CHRISTMAS!



We put the tree up the day after we returned from Thanksgiving in St. George (you've got to love artificial trees). It took me a little longer (and a few more trips to the store) to get the trees up in the boys' rooms.

Maddox insisted on red lights. The first 3 boxes I bought were on a white cord - oops. The next time I headed to the store I made sure to get the green cord - although I am dying for a white tree!



Next I moved on to Griffy's tree. Poor little tree - it only has one strand of lights. I purchased 3 boxes for Griffy's tree as well, but only one (and a half) of the strands worked. I tried, but could not convince myself that it was worth another trip to the store with two little boys to buy more lights. So, in the words of Tim Gunn from one of my favorite shows I, "made it work"!



I thought it would be fun to buy advent calendars to help the boys count down to Santa. According to Griffy Santa should be here already! Griffy scratched, poked, and even stomped on his calendar to get to all the chocolate.



I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!

Thanksgiving

You know you're in St. George when your neighbor has a tractor parked in their driveway! We always have a great time visiting Papa & Yaya. Much to their daddy's dismay, the boys love to play in the red dirt. St. George is the perfect place for boys to be boys. We really missed uncle Courtney, but had a great time visiting with all the cousins and aunts and uncles.









Ahh, Griffy's favorite pastime. I'm just glad he's doing it to someone else for a few minutes!

The Monges in Dallas

My family came for a visit the first week of November. We had a great time! One of our first stops was Peter Piper Pizza, we took a tour of the 2 houses we were deciding between, visited the Fort Worth Zoo, shopped and ate... A LOT! We also did a lot of driving. I'm still not that familiar with the area, so we did a lot of back tracking too. We only had one scary moment - as we were exiting from one freeway to another, I looked over and saw Mel waving from the passenger window of the rented minivan as they missed the exit, and were headed to who knows where! Thanks to cell phones we were quickly reunited. How did the world survive without cell phones?



The Primo Prims!