Pre-Christmas

I love this time of year! It is even more fun with kids around to make it special. Since Brady is almost 4, he is very much into all of the "Christmasy" things this year. We have been recording every holiday special and watching them over and over again. He loves "Home Alone 2" this year along with all of the other usual cartoons (Frosty, Rudolph, the Grinch, Charlie Brown). Here's a couple other things we've been up to:

Brady had a preschool Christmas party and here's a couple pics from that.

Decorating a cupcake

Swinging at the pinata

Brady swung at it really hard. Some of the other kids were just swinging the bat around. If they knew that there was candy inside of it I think they would have been swinging at it a little harder to begin with!

My favorite present this year-a handprint ornament that Brady made for me at school. It even matches my tree perfectly!

Pictures of my little cuties for Christmas

And I couldn't resist this one......Bo has always reminded me of Max the dog from the Grinch

Man crush...I mean BYU b-ball

The BYU basketball team was playing at Creighton here in Omaha. We got Aaron tickets for his birthday for all of us to go to the game. We were sitting so far up so I didn't take any pictures of the game itself. But afterwards, all the BYU fans were congregating near the visiting team entrance and the coach and a couple players spoke briefly. I took some pictures, at Aaron's request, of one of the greatest college basketball players he's ever seen-Jimmer Fredette. He later admitted to me that he had a man crush on him....creepy! He would totally have a bromance with him if he actually knew him! :)

Here's Jimmer signing autographs

And here's the creepy one-"I'm in a picture with Jimmer Fredette but he doesn't even know it!"

Here's a Youtube video someone took and posted in which Collin and I make an appearance around second 6 or 7.

We all had a good time and I'm glad that Aaron had a good time and got to meet his man crush. He he he....

Note: I would have never accused him of having a man crush-he admitted it all on his own and now I like to exploit that fact! :)

Thanksgiving at our house!

So I am finally getting some of the pictures up from Thanksgiving. My mother took 450 pictures (not exaggerating) I had a lot to go through!

We had quite a full house for the Thanksgiving holiday. We had our first visitors arrive on Tuesday night and then the rest on Wednesday. Here's a count:
-4 of us

-Aaron's parents, grandma, brother and sister - 5

-My parents, sister, brother-in-law and 2 nieces -6

We had a total of 15 people in our house and we had places for everyone to fit! It was great and I loved every minute of our full house! We have never had Thanksgiving with our family in all the years Aaron and I have been married and have never gotten to host a holiday of any kind at our house so it was so much fun to have everyone closer and able to come to us this year!

Sorry, there are lots of pics!

Lots of fun time with all Grandmas, Grandpa and Pop Pop

Trying to trick this Diet Coke snob by doing a taste test to see if she can pick the "good stuff"

Had to put this one in here!

Thanksgiving dinner-Hadley carving it up for us

All of the Grays....why didn't we get one with all the Purcells too? Not sure-probably too hungry!

Pass around the "thankful" turkey and say what we are thankful for

Apparently something was really funny while someone was talking and my mom snapped a picture of us. Have no clue what it was!

Doing a little holiday craft. Hadley joined the ladies-notice how one of these things is not like the others?? :)

The kids did their own little project

We also played Just Dance on the Wii - way fun!

Brady played the guitar while we danced. We were playing some Guitar Hero too.

I think this is my favorite picture! Aaron's Mom and Dad dancing to "It's Raining Men" Hilarious!!! Brady and Ava sword fighting with pool noodles in the background. We had such a good time with everyone here. Staying up late, playing games, talking, drinking a lot of Diet Coke, playing Wii, Black Friday Shopping, good food, fun times with cousins.......it was all very fun and we loved having everyone here. And as always, the weekend went by way too fast! Can we do it again next year?? :)