Grampa Mark is Here to Play!!

Since my dad is a pilot he gets to visit us often, the downside is, the visits are short! This time it was a 1 day visit. He flew in late Friday, we played all day Saturday and he flew out early Sunday morning. But thats okay, because we'll take what we can get!!!!!

Mostly my dad wanted to fly out to buy the boys their Christmas presents!!! So we drive to Toys R Us and spent 2 hours looking and playing through all the isles!! Once my dad was satisfied with a FULLY loaded cart we made our way to the 30 minute line!!! My dad just loves spoiling his grandsons! The rest of the day, we played at home. Mostly the boys just wanted to wrestle him for hours! lol. It was a way fun, short little visit and we can't wait to have him visit us again soon!

On an off topic note, I'm now 30 weeks along this pregnancy and feeling pretty good!!! We are so excited to meet our beautiful baby "Emmie" in 2 months!!! I just know the next month will fly by and then January will draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag! It's gotta end soon though because I can't stop shopping for her!!! Thankfully Darren has been a great sport about it! He lets me sleep in practically every day he can and has done almost all the laundry since I became preggo! He is just the best! Not to mention all the late night PB&J sandwiches and candy runs!! He is so excited to be a daddy to a little princess!

Thanksgiving 2012

I've been so busy lately Ive fallen way behind on my blog! I'll try to post what I can rememebr from that way fun week!

Dena offered to have Thanksgiving at her house this year. I know she loves having so much family live so close, as do I! To be honest I remember Thanksgiving morning/ afternoon being kinda rough with the boys, they were both off and by the time we got to Grandma Dena's house they were crazy pants! So right after eating, Darren and I had to leave to put our kids down for naps, which they did oh so willingly! Poor tired boys! And we ventured out later that night with 2 much happier boys, had some Thanksgiving leftovers and desserts and played some fun family games!! The dinner was amazing, and the leftovers, as always, were even better! I'm so grateful she did all the work for us!

(Looks like these boys need a haircut!!!!! And Kaiden possibly needs a smile! lol)

Well, my mother had flown in with her sister to Des Moines to spend Christmas with my Grandma Nonie and Grandpa Jerry the week prior, and on Friday my lil family drove up to get our Grammy Carrie!

 It's less than a 2 hour drive and we spent about 3 hours visiting before we grabbed my mom and drove on home! We got home and put the kiddos to bed and then my mom suggested Darren and I go Black Friday shopping! How awesome!!! We didnt expect to find much but, surprisingly we did and it also turned into a really fun date night!!!

We were lucky to have my mom for about 5 days!! We took her to the Gingerbread Display at the Tabernacle, we baked lots of sweet goodies, we shopped our hearts out, my mom gave us a second date night (yay movies!!), she cut our hairs, and we spent lots of time just hanging out! lol. I'm pretty sure she had a great time and the boys really love it when their grandparents come to visit!!!

We are so beyond blessed and so very thankful for everything in our lives. It seems like everything has just fallen into place and we are so happy and comfortable where we are at. Family, Friends, our beautiful Home, our Crazy Happy Kids, Darren who works so hard in Law School, our Ward, our Health, just so much to think about! And although times can get stressful with our wonderfully busy/ messy kids, at least I can say we are all HAPPY! And that's definitley something to be thankful for!

(Blurry pics courtesy of a camera phone!!!)