December

Our December in Pictures:

We got asked to be in charge of the Ward Christmas party. For some reason I only took a picture with the lights out. But the decorations looked pretty good. On the table we had Mason Jars that were painted white/glittery with Vinyl saying "Light the World" (this years Christmas theme). Then we had papers with ways they could light the world every day that month. We also had red and green M&Ms. Another ward had their Christmas party the night before and hung up a bunch of snowflakes. I was really happy they left them up. We heard the party went great! We ended up having a Christmas concert up at BYU-I that night. Kind of sad we missed the party, but the concert was AMAZING! We loved it. There were a a couple songs done with some of BYU-Choirs, they had dancers, the orchestra. They also had David Archuleta and another guest singer come. It was really good and I would love to go to it every year.

 Our Christmas decorations. I love Christmas time!!

 Kev's work had a Christmas party up at Fat Cats in Rexburg. It was a lot of fun. Ryker thought bowling was awesome. Althought we did try to run down the lane - he didn't make it very far since he landed on his back. We also played in the arcade which Ryker loved also. They had Santa come and give the children a gift (that we had picked out). Well Ryker was not a fan of this Santa either. But he got a shopping cart and I don't think you saw a happier kid there. He was running ALL over the place pushing it, laughing and having such a big smile. It was pretty dang cute.

 We didn't have much room in our bathroom. When the door was open you couldn't open any of the drawers. Well Kev made this barn door. It looks awesome and it gives us so much space in the bathroom. It is so nice! Now if we can only teach Ryker to stop playing with it.

He is obsessed with light switches.

 I had a gift card to Toys-R-Us, so I took Ryker. For some reason he kept going to the bikes. I don't even think he has seen anyone ride a bike, so I don't know how he knew what it was or why he wanted on so bad. He found his favorite white and pink car haha. The top right picture is of him dancing to the singing dogs. He had a lot of fun there.

 We ended up celebrating Christmas with my family a week early.

 Ryker enjoyed opening the presents, sometimes. He wasn't as into it as I thought/was hoping he would be.

We had our annual Widow's dinner.

 Our Christmas Eve didn't go quite as expected. Ryker ended up getting Pink eye. So we didn't want to spend it with the Albaughs and make them all get it. It was pretty sad. We ended up building a fort and watching The Santa Clause.

 Ryker was excited and into it - alot more than Christmas with my family. Which I was so happy about! It was so much fun! For some reason it felt like our first real Christmas together as a family too. It was a good Christmas!

 I got Kev an inversion table. He enjoys it! :)

One of my favorite things that Kev got me was this sign. I just love it. I actually got teary eyed when he gave it to me.

We ended up being able to go to the Albaughs for Christmas day. They gave us this fun game. Where you see who's top stays up the longest. Ryker loves watching them go. If Kev starts yelling, Ryker starts yelling haha

I was in my bedroom and Ryker left me to go to the living room. I just heard him talking away, so after a couple of minutes I had to find out what he was doing. He is so cute and so funny :) 

I'm not really sure when we took this, but I love it. Kev talks to Mozzie in a different voice and Ryker has learned how to talk to Mozzie from him. It's so funny. He gets all serious and puts his hands in front of him, I really can't explain it, but it's so cute.