Early.

Yep. That's right. Thanksgiving is still a few days away, but our tree is up and I am in love! (Justin doesn't usually let me put our Christmas stuff up until after Thanksgiving, but I think he realized how happy it would make me to just be able to put them up a little bit earlier than usual. :) )

 We let Keaton stay up late this past Friday night so that he could see the tree and help decorate it. :)

Do you see Justin laying on the couch? He is asleep. I guess I took too long putting up all the rest of our Christmas decorations after Keaton went to bed.

"For unto us a child is born." 

"Gobble!"

If you ask Keaton what a turkey says he says, "Gobble!" And it is just about the cutest thing ever!

Last night for family night, we helped Keaton to make this "I am Thankful for..." turkey. It was a lot of fun. And very funny to let Keaton put it together all on his own. (Don't ya just love the placement of this poor turkey's eye and beak? Ha, ha!)

It was a perfect family night. :)

27...plus, a visit from my mom.

My 27th birthday was last Thursday, November 8th. And I woke up to these beautiful flowers from my wonderful husband! :) Such a wonderful surprise!

My mom came to visit us for a couple of days (my birthday included) and on my birthday we went to Daylight Donuts in downtown Columbus for breakfast. YUM!

And then we went shopping! (Ha, ha, if you can call going to Walmart and Dollar Tree shopping?)

While Keaton was napping we made these SUPER DELICIOUS caramel and chocolate covered pretzels! (My birthday present from my aunt Suzanne! Thanks again- they were amazing!!!)

I had such a great birthday. :)

As you can see, Keaton loves his new "hat." He wore it all that day and night. Even when we went to the movies to see Wreck it Ralph- which is such a super cute movie, by the way. :) (Justin left in the afternoon on my birthday to go hunting for the weekend, so me, my mom, and Keaton spent the rest of my mom's time with us eating yummy snacks and food, shopping, and watching Christmas movies! It was such a blast having her here! I missed Justin a lot while he was gone, but not as much as I would have if my mom wasn't here. :) )

On Saturday, before dropping my mom off at the airport, we went to Olive Garden for lunch and I managed to take this cute picture of Keaton and Grandma Melanie together. :) We love and miss you already! Thanks again so much for coming to visit us!

"Cheese!"

Keaton saw me grab my camera this morning while he was eating his oatmeal for breakfast and said "Cheese!" So, I snapped a quick picture of him and was surprised after uploading it to the computer how much of a big boy my baby is becoming!

Happy Halloween!

Our Halloween was pretty low key. We had the missionaries and the Spicer's over for dinner. And, after the missionaries left the Spicer's joined us to take Keaton to do a little bit of Trick or Treating... But boy did we have one sad puppy on our hands! Ha, ha. Needless to say Keaton didn't really love his costume.

But, we knew he would like going out to get some candy and once he was distracted he ended up really enjoying himself. :)

Ben and Kari. :) We always have such a blast hanging out with them!

Keaton enjoying all his candy. :) I don't think he has ever eaten so much candy at one time in his life! We only went to about 6 houses, but he didn't care he got plenty of candy to make him happy.

Us and our cute puppy. :)

Happy Halloween everyone!

Disneyland *Day 5 And coming home... *Day 6

Exploring Minnie's house.

The dishwasher could have kept them entertained all day!

 Maccoy shooting an arrow after meeting Merida from Brave!

On the train again. (Excuse the cute little girl in the picture... Ha, ha.)

Yep, he really loves the Carousel!

Me, Keaton, and Maccoy rode the teacups 3 times!!!

Riding the Haunted Mansion for the 2nd time. :)

BreAnne's pineapple frozen yogurt. Yum!

(Uh sorry, was too lazy to fix this picture...)

 Watching the parade.

Bug's life eyes. :)

 We love Disneyland!

But, like all great things, this trip had to come to an end, and before we knew it we were on our flight back to Nebraska. We were sad our trip was over, but we missed Justin/Daddy so much and couldn't wait to get back to him!!!

Thanks again to my wonderful sister, BreAnne, and her family for letting us come along! It was an amazingly fun trip!