Our tree, Aisley, a surprise, and all wrapped up...

November 30th- "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!"

Aisley riding Grandma Shauna's dinosaur toy. Don't let her face fool you- she really was loving it!

During the month of November Justin's mom had this little Thanksgiving house up in their home and every time we came over I would tell Shauna how much I loved it! What a cute little pilgram and indian nesting doll set! The kids also both really loved playing with it- well, Shauna surprised me with my own little Thanksgiving house that she found for $5 at the DI! (I looked and looked for them online, but just couldn't find any that weren't really expensive!) I love my Thanksgiving house! Thanks Shauna for finding it for me!!!

24 Christmas books all wrapped up and ready for Keaton and Aisley to open- 1 a day till Christmas Eve! A new family tradition that I am so excited to start!

Our first REAL Christmas tree!

November 29th- I went out and bought a bunch of fun new Christmas decorations for our first ever REAL Christmas tree! I had such a fun time picking out the perfect ornaments for our family to enjoy for years to come. It made me so happy and excited for Christmastime! Then after putting the kids to bed Justin put the lights on the tree so that it would be all ready for us to decorate in the morning!

Christmas tree hunting!

November 28th-

Getting all ready to go and look for the perfect tree. 

Keaton and Grandma searching together.

Maddie and Keaton...

Finding the perfect tree and then singing, "We Wish You A Merry Christmas!" around it per Keaton's request! :)

Finding Grandma and Grandpa's perfect tree! (Yes, we sang around this tree too!!)

Our tree is HUGE. But, we all loved looking for it and so therefore we love our 1st ever real Christmas tree and look forward to tree hunting together as a family for years and years to come!

(In the end, it was quite the day! After finding our tree, eating lunch, and starting on the drive back home our truck gave out and my parents had to tow our truck a good distance into Corinne where we left our truck at Grandma Norman's house and borrowed her car for the night. Our $5 tree permit and trip tree hunting turned into a pretty expensive day $300 later after Justin replaced the fuel pump in our truck the next day. --- (Then on Sunday our Yukon battery died! Lots and lots of $$$ for car repairs lately! BOO!!!)

Aisley, my obsession, and feeling loved.

January 5th-

Santa found us in Utah!

What did we do the rest of the day on Christmas you may ask??? Well, lots and lots and lots... but sadly I have not a single picture to prove it. We spent the whole day back and forth between my family and Justin's and had so much fun with everyone just soaking in the spirit of the season.

A busy, wonderful, Christmas Eve

December 24th- Christmas Eve morning we left my parents house early so that we could meet our bestest of best friends Ben and Kari Spicer for breakfast! We hadn't seen then since we moved away from Nebraska so we were very excited to be able to spend some time with them! We sure miss these 2 and over breakfast we all made big plans of how we will some day very soon live not only in the same state together, but we just really need to be neighbors! We don't know how that will happen, but we are going to make it work somehow! Right guys?! :)

Shortly after breakfast we headed to Justin's parents house to go all together to deliver Christmas to a family in need. (One of my very most favorite Norman family traditions, and Justin's mom always makes it such an amazing experience for all of us!)

Keaton was really into all things Christmas this year, and for the first time really understood what Christmas is all about- the birth of our Savior- and after we told him why we would be taking Christmas presents and food to this family he was very excited and just loved holding this little box that Grandma gave for him to give the family. He held it so carefully the whole drive there. This little boy has a very tender heart and is such a gentle reminder to us each of every day of the important things in life.

Christmas Eve night we spent at the Adams family Christmas party! Where Talon and Kenzlie gave Miss Aisley lots of loves and attention. What more could a little girl ask for right?! She was in heaven the whole night!

The kids all got footie pajamas from Grandma Adams! Oh goodness! Ha, ha, I love that I got a picture of all of them together!

I even got a picture of Aisley and Maddie together- matching, in their footie pjs before going to bed so that Santa could visit us bright and early the next morning!