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More pictures

Here are some more pictures of our Christmas in Flagstaff with my family. Sorry for the unorganized posts. I am just trying to get them on here asap.

The family at the Grand Canyon (Mason is hiding behind Emma Kate)The boys in their matching pajamas that I made for them. All the ladies had matching pajama bottoms that I made as well.

Smackers at the Grand Canyon

Christmas pictures

We are loving Flagstaff and the snow. I had a little down time and so I wanted to post some pictures. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!

Mason loves sledding!

Well, we are on our way to Flagstaff and so excited! Smackers, Gigi and Nelson are with us and we are headed to snow. Abbey, Baxter and Sarah are going to be here on Wednesday. I LOVE my family and am so blessed. Today was almost perfect as we had both sets of grandparents at church this morning to watch us dedicate our son to the Lord. We are surrounded with love and it is amazing to feel this much happiness and peace. Thank you God. I am also reminded of what this time of year is all about and how much my God loves me to send his only son to earth for me. Thank you God.

We will be in Flagstaff for a week and I am sure you will be able to hear us laughing wherever you are. I will try and get some pictures up ASAP. I hope everyone has a merry Christmas. By the way, iPhones are really useful when it comes to this sort of thing! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Well, posting on the blog has fallen off. We had a busy November and it looks like it is going to be a busy December. I am sure everyone is feeling that as well. We had a great Thanksgiving here in Yuma. We were with the Yuma Alexanders(we missed you Deborah!) and had a wonderful dinner in Gran Gran and Daddy Steve's backyard. Since Thanksgiving we have been active with playgroup and then Matt and I were able to get away for a few days to Phoenix for some Christmas parties. We are so grateful to Kay and Steve for keeping the kids so we could get away for a few days/nights. We stayed at a resort in Phoenix and we were able to finish all of our Christmas shopping. We were also able to relax, sleep in and enjoy having thoughts that I can HEAR!

Now, we are getting ready for my family to come to Arizona for Christmas. We are so excited to see everyone and looking forward to having some time to relax and LAUGH....A LOT!!!! We also recently got a camera! Yay! Finally, I can take some pictures so that I can post some updated pictures! Hope all is well and everyone is remembering the reason for the season.

Pumpkins

It is finally feeling like fall around here. We are excited to pull out our long sleeves and pants! This week we went to the pumpkin patch and we also had our playgroup Halloween party. I don't have great pictures of the kids in their costumes but I will get some at the church festival tomorrow night. Hope everyone has a safe and fun weekend!
The petting zoo at the pumpkin patch

Cool Weather, Sewing and Giggles

We have been having a stretch of nice weather and it has been WONDERFUL! We have been able to open the doors and windows and turn the air conditioning off. Awesome. The kids especially love standing at the back door and wishing they could go swim (pool is closed for the season...hot tub to be fired up soon!)

On Friday I invited some ladies from the playgroup over to have a sewing party. It was a lot of fun and I think the ladies enjoyed making something for their little ones. They are all coming back in the morning to hopefully complete their garments. There was definitely a love of the turkey applique but we also did acorns, applique letters and pumpkins. I will try to get some pictures of the completed projects up here soon.

.Lauren (above) and Kaitlyn (below) were the only kids allowed in the sewing room ...they can't crawl yet. I wanted to take a picture of the rest of the house after the sewing because there were a total of 9 kids in the house for 3-5 hours. It looked like a toy bomb went off. Fortunately there were no injuries and no damage.

I also took some pictures of the kids and what they were up to during the Auburn game this weekend. If you watched the game then you will understand why Emma Kate was hiding under the sofa. hahaha. We will hope for better next time around. Hope every one's fall is going well and that you are settling into the cooler weather wherever you are.