Christmas Portraits 2013

I managed to take nice photos this year for Christmas!  Having my iPhone means less and less photos with my nice cameras, but I'm working on it!  Here are our Christmas photos!

Christmas Season

Leading up to Christmas, we visited Santa, saw Christmas lights, visited Temple Square, kissed under the mistletoe, decorated our tree and house, performed in a preschool program and all sorts of other fun Christmas related activities.  Here are some photos of a few of those!

Rilo in her role as Mrs. Claus for preschool.  I've never seen her so serious.  Her singing was loud and proud!

 Our neighborhood puts on the most amazing reenactment of the Christmas story.  It started with a full market with animals and food and peddlers.  Then we followed Joseph and Mary on a donkey to a small stable.  An angel appeared (shown below) to the shepherds.  We all sang Silent Night, and you better believe I got too choked up to finish.  It was beautiful and was the perfect way to get into the true Spirit of Christmas.

Halloween 2013

I just love Rilo's little mind.  Months before Halloween she asked to be a coin.  I have NO idea where she came up with it or why she insisted on it every time I asked, but it really makes me happy.  I like to coordinate costumes, so after some brainstorming, I went with "good luck charms".  Rilo would be a penny, Collier a four leaf clover, and brand new Arden as a shooting star!

I'm a little disappointed that I didn't take a photo of the back of Rilo's costume, because I was pretty proud of it.  I ended up drawing the whole thing with my left hand (I'm a righty) while nursing!  :)

Easter Egg Hunt

Rilo loves her cousins!  She was so happy to have an Easter Egg hunt with them!

Valentine's Day 2013

Christmas 2012

Just a few days before Christmas we moved into our new house.  We furiously unpacked our Christmas decorations, bought a tree and celebrated together in our new place.  These two had a blast and Rilo was especially excited for some of the presents she had asked Santa for.  A fridgerator for her and train tracks for Collier.

Pumpkin Patch

I need to play a serious round of "catch up" around here.  I have tons of photos to post.  Hopefully I can sit down and get a bunch of posts scheduled at once.  These are from Monday at the Pumpkins Patch.  We love this little field because the old man is the nicest.  And we got all of our pumpkins for $12.50.  We tried to give him $15 and he wouldn't take it.