365+1 Week 47

Last week was filled with birthday fun and holiday celebration!  Enjoy!!

Photo's #323-329:

"Stacked"  Olivia was so proud of the height she had achieved while stacking up the Jenga pieces with patience and precision.

Even though her birthday wasn't until Wednesday, with it being so close to the holiday we decided to have Eva's party on Monday.  We invited friends, had a donut tower (she doesn't like cake these days), opened many fun gifts, including this Cuddle-up-it Yellow dog from her Dad that she had been wanting for weeks!  Then we went over to the Kangaroo Zoo and jumped out every last ounce of energy left in them. I think this photo is classic- pure excitement over every detail of her day!!

The Eva celebration continued today by enjoying a lunch out at her favorite restaurant (Winger's, because of the popcorn) with Grandma and Grandpa.  Another perfect afternoon for our darling little girl! (Also, Abby has learned how to crochet and that is a scarf she made for Eva around her neck-it turned out really cute!)

"Fly"  We went with several of our cousins down to the Air Extreme in Provo.  The kids had sooo much fun!  At first Eva and Liv didn't think they were going to like it, but once they got over their nerves and gave jumping into the foam pits a try they were hooked :)  I took so many fun pictures of everyone flying through the air doing fun tricks, but decided on this series of Brooklyn teaching Abby how to do her very first forward flip!!  Yes, Abby now thinks she is qualified for the Olympics!!!

Thanksgiving started out bright and early at the Fleet Feet Turkey Trot 5K.  Abby and I had been training for several weeks and she was ready to set her personal best and place in the top three in her age group.  I made these fun ear warmer headbands for everyone that was running in our group and I have to say they turned out sooo cute!! We received comments all along the race route and it was perfect because we could easily find one another amid the crowd of near 1000 people.  It was by far the biggest race Abby had run in and I wish I had a camera on the route when she looked in front of her and then behind her and said "Holy Cow Mom, there are so many people running!"  She did run her best race yet, crossing the finish line in 30 minutes flat and took 2nd place- being edged out by a mere 30 seconds for the top spot!  But she didn't care because second place received a pumpkin pie and this girl loves her some pie!!  As usual, my family of runners cleaned up again with Kobe, Jill, and my Dad taking first place in their ages and bringing home THREE Turkey's!!

 As for the rest of the day it was relaxing and fun as my family gathered at my parents house for a traditional meal in which Jill and I were put in charge of carving the Turkey- a first for both of us and it had to be documented- much harder then it looks, even with an electric carving knife!

 And of course we had the table of pies, one to delight every set of taste buds!!

Friday we just lazed around ALL day.  Really, we didn't do anything but snuggle and cuddle together on the couch all day watching shows- it was FANTASTIC!  Oh, also a smidgen of time was spent getting all of these girly toes into the Christmas spirit- let the count down begin!!

Saturday we set up the tree as well as all the other Christmas decorations. That evening we turned on the lights outside- I do really love this time of year!!