Thanksgiving and Christmas Pics!

These are very late coming, but at least I got them up right?

THANKSGIVING:

For Thanksgiving this past year, we went to Scott's sister, April, in Oregon.  They just moved there this past year, so we had not been to visit their new place yet.  It sure is pretty there.  We had so much fun.  Here are a few pictures from our stay...

Paige LOVED playing with her cousins and had a blast!
LOVE THIS PICTURE!!!!  
(Right to Left: Calvin, Paige, Jenna, & Quinton)

Snuggling with Daddy...

We went out to a park that is near their town... Didn't I say it was beautiful?!?

Looking at the ducks...

We found this fun store that was full of Christmas.
Paige thought that it was so neat and of course wanted to touch everything.
 

*Note to self:
Take stroller to strap child in so that they cannot touch anything that is breakable and expensive!

Jay and April took us to go see Crater Lake.
On our drive up,  we stopped by this hiking area and saw a few waterfalls.

So pretty!

Paige on our nature hike.

At the waterfall.
(Right to left: Ashley, Calvin, Paige, Jenna, Quinton, Jay, & Apil)

Crater Lake.  There was so much snow up there!

Holding hands with Daddy!

The kids found some snowmen in a field near the parking lot.
Paige thought that she was building a snowman and loved packing snow onto the side of the snowman that she was "building".  And the kids had fun playing in the snow...
Do you see Scott back there instigating the snowball fight?  Yep, the "kids" had a blast in the snow ;)  (Love you honey!!)

Paige just haggin' out at Aunt April's eating a snack and coloring with the kids.

She did pretty darn good.  I have never given her an entire apple before and she LOVED it!  Funny huh?

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner and we even went after Thanksgiving day shopping in the wee early hours and had so much fun with Jay and April and their family!  

Thanks for letting us come visit, WE HAD A BLAST!

CHRISTMAS:

When we got home from Jay and April's, it was time to put up the Christmas Decorations.

Paige loved helping put the balls on the tree...

There's my cute girl!

Can you tell which ones Paige hung?  ;)
Bless her heart she had them all hanging from the lower branches.

Paige helped mommy put together Christmas packages to send to Grandmas and Grandpas...
And got covered in glitter making a craft that mommy totally forgot to put in the packages.
Oh, well she had fun!

Here's a close up...

We built a gingerbread house this year as a Sunday night activity.

It was SO fun!!!

Paige loved dipping the candy in the frosting and decorating the house.

Showing off her candy...

Paige and Mommy!  And yes, as you can tell from most of these pictures, she wears her princess crown as much as we will let her.  She wears it ALL the time.  
OUR LITTLE PRINCESS!  
And by the way, that is all we can call her while she is dressed up like a princess.

Paige and Daddy!
Such a cute picture... What a cute little girl and handsome husband I have!

Daddy helping decorate the house.

Here is the completed project!  Pretty cute if you ask me :)
If you look really close inside the door of the house, you can see a pile of gum drops.  Paige would pick up the gum drops and have them bounce down the walk and throw them in through the door.

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS!

Normally for Christmas we go visit family.  But this year Scott had to work Christmas day so we were unable to go anywhere this year.  So we had our own family Christmas at home for the first time.  We missed family, but it was fun to do Christmas morning with our little family!  We have a tradition in our family that we do once a month.  We have a family pizza and movie night.  Paige and Daddy set-up in the family room a picnic on the floor while Mommy is getting the food ready and we watch a movie... Paige loves it and looks forward to her family picnic night.  So, for Christmas Eve, we thought it would be fun to do our family picnic night and make a pizza in the shape of a snowman! We also had special "Green Grinch Punch" and watched the Polar Express.  Paige thought it was so fun!

Paige wearing her new Christmas Jammies!  We made some Reindeer food to feed Santa's Reindeer, Paige was super excited to feed the reindeer
the special food that we made for them.  She could hardly wait!

Getting ready to go out to feed the reindeer...

Feeding the reindeer with daddy!

It was fun.  We put oats, sprinkles, and glitter in the reindeer food, but you can't really see anything but the oats. :)

Santa came!!!!  
Here's the Christmas tree with the presents from Grandmas & Grandpas, Mommy & Daddy and the ones that Santa brought.  

Paige sitting in front of the tree Christmas morning!

She thought that it was so fun to open all the presents.
She even helped mommy and daddy open theirs :)

Drinking hot cocoa after church.  (We had church at 9am so we let paige open a present from Santa before we left and then opened the rest after we got home.)

Paige and daddy opening presents.

Daddy made this tent for Paige for Christmas, Paige drug all of  her toys that she got for Christmas in there and played practically all day!  We had such a great Christmas!  And we are truly thankful for everything that we have!  Especially wonderful family, we missed you all!