major christmas catchup

We have been so busy lately, just like everyone this time of year. So here are some pictures of what we have been up to.
This has become a Halloween and Christmas tradition of ours (even though Wes hates the halloween version). Some people in Lindon put this on every year. It's a free train ride with all sorts of decorations and music.


waiting for the train

This is Wes' first letter to Santa, he wants a lizard mask (from Spider-man) if you can't tell what that is.

This is our barricade, Natty is still obsessed with touching the tree.

a little trip to Krispy Kreme for being good while running errands.

We took the front runner up to Salt Lake to look at lights one night. It pretty much was the worst night ever. The train was packed, so we had to stand the whole way there and Wes was a complete beast. We probably wont be doing that again any time soon.

What? that barricade didn't work

Lets have some sprinkles with a little french toast for breakfast

We went to Thanksgiving Pointe to see the reindeer and have a gigantic brownie sundae! That was a fun family night (unlike the train ride)

I got to help out in Wes' class for his Christmas party. It was so fun to see him in that environment. They were also celebrating his birthday that day so I got to see what they do for that too.

I think this is his best friend in his class, Aiden. I'm pretty sure Wes is only friends with him because his name is Aiden (and he likes superheroes)

My handsom boy at his Christmas program

Next up pictures from his birthday party!

Merry Christmas

In case we don't get Christmas cards out, here is wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Love, The Browns

 

 

 

A Happy Birthday

Seriously, am I 31? I remember thinking that people in their 30s were so old when I was a kid, I definitely don't feel old. Well I had a great weekend Josh and I got to go on a date and we went to festival of trees as a family. Natalie was sick on Saturday and slept most of the day so we didn't get to do anything else, but I just love hanging out with my family.


Did I get a decent picture of Josh? I can not believe it

I can't say the same for my Wessy

how on earth they got Justin Bieber to sign my cake I will never know

look at my cake all ablaze. Now that's a lot of candles, when we took all of them off Josh said it looked like someone shot the cake with a bb gun. What a jerk :)

so shocking that this was Wes' favorite tree, in fact he said he didn't even like any of the other ones just the "revengers" one.

Buddy stole some birthday cake while we were in bed

 

This and That

I've taken a bunch of random pictures over the last couple weeks so here is what we have been up to.
First of all we have started having family game night once a week. It is so fun (even though it's either Candyland or Chutes and Ladders) and we always have a yummy treat. Last week it was ice cream cookie sandwiches with homemade chocolate chip cookies. Yummm



One of our friends got a suite at the Jazz game and a bunch of us went. We even took the kids since it was a suite. Super fun time, we haven't been to a Jazz game in forever.

 

Poor Ailee got her head cut off. I love my friends!

An elf came to live with us, we named him Buddy. I know probably every other elf on the shelf out there is named Buddy but that is what Wes wanted. He has done some silly things and shown up in some silly places.

getting his shave on

drinking some hot chocolate

Thanksgiving this year was very uneventful. It was actually a pretty boring day, but that's ok I was thankful Josh was home to spend time with us the whole weekend.
we did go bowling on Thanksgiving before dinner. I actually didn't take any pictures of our dinner. Josh's parents came over to eat, the food was pretty yummy.

Natty bug was asleep while we all ate, so this is her eating by herself. Turkey and corn casserole were her favorites.

playing at Artic Circle

and getting our Christmas tree, Natalie was asleep until the chain saw woke her up...

she was not happy about that.

My little cuties!

and this has pretty much been my life since we put the tree up.  "no natty, no no. hey no no. Natalie NO. NO touching" etc etc etc.

And here is our tree. I absolutely love it, I love all the colors and all the different ornaments. I love getting out all my ornaments and remembering where I got them and the story behind them. It is such a meaningful thing for us.

Here are a couple more pictures that I thought were cute.

 

I hope everyone has a good week!

Christmas Lights and a Date

On Friday night we went as a family (even though Josh isn't in any pics) to Riverwoods for the lighting of their lights. It is one of the most beautiful places to look at lights, but I would not recommend going on the first night. There were about 35 million people there. We did get a waffle out of the deal though!!

 

 

see, Waffle Love, me and Wes' favorite

Then on Saturday Wes and I went on a date (please excuse how disgusting I look). First we saw Wreck It Ralph

Then got pizza at Pier 49

Then cookies at Smart Cookie. Yes we did a lot of eating, but who cares it was yummy. I also wanted to just keep hanging out with Wes. He's pretty funny

On a separate not, Natalie got a new coat. How freaking cute is this!