Christmas Time!!

I am so so so so excited that it is Christmas time!! (Yes I know that Thanksgiving isn't even here yet but in my mind it's already Christmas time.) This is the first year that Adam and I will really be able to enjoy Christmas in our own home. We have been college students for the last 5 years and we had a whole month of Christmas vacation. After finals were over, we usually left home and went to spent the holidays with our families. That was really nice and I liked the month vacation we got but we never got to enjoy Christmas in our home. I always decorated for Christmas but it seemed like such a huge effort to only enjoy until the second week in December. This year I'm also having major Christmas decorating withdrawals because I didn't get to do ANY last year. Adam graduated last December and we were in the middle of moving. Our whole house was in boxes and that included the Christmas stuff! I was very sad because that's just not me. Christmas is my favorite time of the year. I love decorating, baking cookies, wrapping presents, listening to the music. My list could go on and on. I'm also super excited for this year because Asher is at the age when Christmas is really going to be fun. He loves going to the stores with me to look at Christmas stuff. He loves all the huge lawn decorations. (Adam will be forced to Clark Griswold the outside I'm sure.) He also loves anything that has music to it, like all the dancing Santas. Any time he sees a Santa figurine he says, "Kissmas!" However, I am a little sad because I don't think that the whole "sit in Santa's lap for a picture" thing will be happening this year. We already tried and he ran as fast as he could and hid behind Adam's leg. Santa even tried to give him candy and he wasn't falling for it. He loves Santa Clause, just from a distance. I am also buying new decorations this year. I told Adam that I have never done this before. Most of my decorations are hand me downs. I do have some stuff that my Grandmas have bought me but I'm just in the mood for some new ones! I just bought new ornaments for the tree because my old ones are all red and silver and since we don't live in Lubbock anymore, I dont want a Texas Tech tree. (Don't worry Red Raiders, I still love you just don't want you overtaking my Christmas tree anymore!) I am planning on decking the halls this coming week. My husband doesn't know it yet so either he'll read this or he'll just come home to a big surprise. Needless to say, I'm so excited for this Christmas season. I wish it could last forever!!!

Halloween

Last year Asher was Nemo for Halloween. He was the cutest Nemo I have ever seen! (I'm not biased right?!) So I had my hands full this year trying to top Nemo. I love little kid costumes. They are all so cute. It's hard to decided what to get but Asher is obsessed with pirates right now. His favorite movie is "Pan" and he walks around all day singing, "Yo-ho Yo-ho a pirate's life for me!" So it seemed liked the only logical choice was for Asher to be a pirate. We bought the costume a month early and I absolutely refused to let Asher wear it before Halloween. There's just something about two year olds - food, dirt, juice, crayon, etc. - always finds a way to attack their clothes. I did not want to ruin the costume and have to buy another one! So it set in the closet and when I finally put it on him, he was so excited! It came with a sword so of course we all got stabbed in the leg at least once. Now he was all dressed and we had to decide where to go. Well, lucky us! The aquarium here had a huge pirate themed indoor trick-or-treat. Asher loved it! He was a little scared of all the pirates at first. Guess he was surprised at what a real life pirate might look like but by the end of the night he was taking pictures with them. My parents came with us and we all followed Asher back and forth through the aquarium. To top the night off, my parents took Asher back to Oklahoma City with them and Adam and I had a weekend to ourselves. So relaxing!!!! Thanks mom and dad!

Beautiful Fall!

I know that I have complained a lot about the weather here in Tulsa but I have absolutely no complaints about fall! The weather is beautiful! The trees are beautiful! I love it! I think the one thing I love most is all the excitement that comes with the fall. It means that holiday season has started. I have already decorated for Thanksgiving and I'm on edge waiting to break out the Christmas stuff!

Since the weather has been so beautiful, Asher and I have been spending a lot of time outside. His favorite thing to do is play football. We play a lot of football! We also decorated pumpkins. Asher was interested in painting about two pumpkins and then he was done. So much for that idea! Our small group at church went to a pumpkin patch the other week. It was so much fun. We all got pumpkins and they had a lot of animals there to pet. Asher loved feeding the camels. They slobbered all over him. It was so gross but he loved it! We also went for a hay ride with all the kids. It moved really slow but I think they liked it. This is just some of the fun fall stuff we have been doing!

Adam's surprise party!

Gosh I'm so far behind! It is going to take forever to update everything we have done but I'll start with this story first. Adam's birthday and my birthday are 8 days apart and Halloween is one day after my birthday. This has been like two long weeks of parties. Asher is still singing "Happy Birthday Momma" and "Happy Birthday Daddy!" He also thinks we must always have a "party cake" at our house so I've tried my best to make sure that happens with some cookies and cupcakes. But on to Adam's birthday... Adam didn't want to tell anyone at his work that it was his birthday. He said that he didn't want it to be a big deal. That was not a good thing to tell me. I started emailing his co-workers to tell them it was his birthday and that we needed to do something funny to embarrass him at work. But after a lot of thought, we just couldn't come up with anything. So around 3:30 my friend Amy emailed me and said "Hey let's throw a surprise party tonight at my house!" Yeah!!! Adam never wants to do anything fun for his birthday. I was really excited. Adam works with some awesome people and we have made some really good friends but it was so last minute I was afraid no one would show up. But they did! And I think Adam was really surprised. I kept having to delay him because people weren't supposed to show up until 7. We went to dinner and Adam was ready to go home at 6:30. I told him that we had to go over to Amy and David's house before we went home because I needed to pay her for some pictures. I had to buy time by begging to go to Starbucks. I had to hide inside Starbucks for 15 minutes so we didn't get there early and ruin the surprise. This really annoyed Adam. When I walked out of Starbucks he was pretty mad. But we finally made our way to their house and he noticed everyone's cars outside. His mood changed pretty fast after that! It was a fun birthday and I'm really thankful for all of our new friends!

I KNOW!!!!!

Ok so I am sooo far behind on my blogging. October is a very busy month for our family. We have had a lot of fun and I definitely will be making some new blogs soon. I have a lot of catching up to do. Check back!!