So much for all her cute clothes.....

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas! We had a blast this year. Kambree has been so excited for Santa to come and was so happy to get her blue camera she has been wanting the last few months. She takes picture of everything! Even the people at the store and Daddy in the shower. Santa also brought her a trunk of princess dress up clothes. She will not take them off though. I have so many cute outfits for her and she just wants to be Snow White everyday and once in awhile Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. I do have a funny story about her the other night. We had Noni and Yia Yia over for fondue and when it was time for Kambree to go to bed she kept banging on the door refusing to go to sleep. We tried to ignore her but then heard her saying Ms. Julie come here! (Ms. Julie is what the preschool kids call me so I guess she thought this would get my attention more) I finally gave in after we all had been laughing and went to check on her. She had put on her Sleeping Beauty outfit and informed me that Sleeping Beauty needed a drink of water. I tried to not laugh and got her a small drink and then reminded her that she was Sleeping Beauty and should be sleeping until she got kissed by a prince. :) She didn't make a peep after that.

Here are some pictures from December. We hope you are all doing well and had a Happy Holiday.

Asher started eating solids this month. He is now 6 months old and weighs 20 pounds and is 27 inches long. Still a big boy and loves regular food just as much as he loves his milk. 

 I ordered a gingerbread house from Bountiful Baskets and we had fun making these. I noticed a couple preschool kids who liked to sneak some candy off of it when they thought I wasn't looking.

 Kambree loves being a mommy too! She always feeds her Minnie Mouse though and never really plays with her dolls.

 The Finished product!

 These two just adore each other! It may be a different story when Asher can fight back though.

We went to Mike and Sue's house in Idaho this month to celebrate Christmas early. We had a blast playing Just Dance on the wii. I am totally addicted now and want one for my birthday.

Asher got lots of new toys for Christmas.

On Christmas Eve we did our yearly tradition and made cupcakes for baby Jesus. Kambree loved singing Happy Birthday to him and blowing out all the candles.

Uncle Jared gave her a 4 feet tall Sock Monkey. He is huge and sometimes a little scary looking. But Kambree loves him.

The long awaited day for the blue camera from Santa. The batteries were dead after one day of use. I will need to buy a rechargeable battery box.

Asher enjoying playing with the paper. He does love his gift from Santa though. The Dino ball popper.

Kambree being her favorite princess, Snow White. I can't get her to stop wearing it. She even wears it to bed at night.

My step mom made this cute Christmas decoration for me. I Love it!

Her doggie that Grandpa Turkey gave her. She named it Hallie which is our good friends, Matt and Heidi's, baby's name. :)

Kambree put a cotton ball on santa's beard each day to count down to Christmas. The bummer was that it was finished on Christmas Eve rather then Christmas day and she kept looking out the window wondering when Santa would be here.

Fondue night: We got a little crazy with the Chocolate Fountain.

Snow White playing in her new house Uncle Lance and Alisha gave her.

Minute to Win It

We had such a fun time tonight with some of our friends in the neighborhood. We had dinner and then played Minute to Win It. Some of the games were hilarious and we all had a great time laughing. Here are some pics and videos from the night.

This game was Spudnick. You have to put 5 straws in a potato and then have to balance peanut m&m's on the straws. It was pretty much impossible for everyone but Uncle Paddy. He rocked it!

Chocolate Unicorn: Balance 7 ding dongs on your forehead before 60 seconds.  Everyone could do this one. I think it helped that we sat on a chair. It would be harder standing up.

Face the Cookie: Put an oreo on your forehead and move it into your mouth only using the muscles in your face.

This was suppose to be a tie breaker. We didn't need it but Uncle Paddy, Adam and Map wanted to do it. Try to eat 6 saltine crackers with no water in a minute. Nobody could do this one.

Official Score Board: Lucky family was the winner. (Must have something to do with their last name) Tryon's were 2nd place and Jackson's 3rd place.

Other games we played were noodling around. Pick up 6 penne pasta using an uncooked spaghetti noodle in your mouth. Defying Gravity: Keep 3 balloons in the air without touching the ground for one minute. (This one was so hard! Nobody could do it but we laughed pretty hard trying) Human Burrito: Wrap yourself in 5 blankets and then run to center stage and unwrap before the minute is up.

Thanks so much to everybody that came! We had a blast. :) 

Miss Independent again....

I thought I would share a couple of stories about Kambree. As most of you know she fell out of a cart at Costco a couple weeks ago. All because she always stands up in the cart and we are constantly telling her to sit down. It was a pretty bad fall and left some severe battle wounds. She still has black eyes about 3 weeks later.

Sort of weird how the pictures don't seem to show how black and blue she really was. So many people kept asking her what happened to her head. I love how last week at nursery the kids were asking what happened to her since she had a band aid on. Her teachers told them she had a boo boo, so the entire class kept saying they had one too and wanted a band aid as well. 

The other crazy thing that happened today was when we were at our neighborhood park for a Trunk or Treat. Jake and I suddenly had no idea where Kambree was. We were looking all over the place and told a bunch of friends that she was missing. Everyone was looking around and I started to fear the worst when she hadn't shown up after about 10 minutes. It was at that moment that I saw a lady from the area walking over with her. She told me that she had found Kambree on the other side of the neighborhood. Kambree told her that she had walked home but the door was locked so she then started to roam the streets! She wasn't crying and wasn't scared at all. When I told her how she always needed to tell me where she was going and to stay close by she replied with, "uh huh mom, I was naughty. " I tried not to smile so she would know how serious I was. :) 

We have had so much fun this week. Halloween is so exciting this year because Kambree just loves all the parties and candy. Everyday she tells me she is going to go Trick or Treating. I just love seeing how happy she is. She even likes all the spooky decorations and will grab my face and turn it when she sees something spooky saying, "Look mom, look! Mean Witch!" Who knew it could be this much fun to be a parent. I always dreamed of it, but didn't quite realize just how fun it could be. 

 Our GIANT carrots! We left them in the garden a little too long but luckily they still taste great.

 Asher had rice cereal for the first time this week. He really likes  the different texture to chew on.
Also, it's a little too soon to tell but it looks like he will have brown eyes just like Kambree. I love it because Jake and I both have blue eyes and my kids have brown eyes like my mom did. Every time I look at them I think of her.

 Our pumpkins we carved. The MEAN WITCH pumpkin and Snow White. I did the Snow White. It was a lot of fun but hard to be so detailed.

 Jake made the Mickey Mouse pumpkin. It looks fantastic.

 Kambree loved the pumpkins and loved taking pictures with them. She is so funny! I hope she always makes me laugh this much.

 After Jake and I finished she wanted to hang the pictures up that we had used to make the stencil.

Man, I love this girl! Tonight when we were done it was pretty late. 10:10 to be exact. I was trying to hurry and get her to bed. As I was leaving to shut the door she help up her hand like a stop sign and said. "No Mom, I need to tell you I lub you!" So I made sure to go give her a hug and kiss as she got to say, " I lub you so much mom!" I am such a lucky person to be given these precious children. Life is great! (Even on the crazy days when I want to rip my hair out :) )