MERRY CHRISTMAS! I know I know its only the day after Thanksgiving and we are so ready for Christmas this year. I don't think I've ever wanted to get through Thanksgiving as fast as I did this year. Its Taden's fault! He talks about Christmas and Santa non-stop. He is so excited for the Christmas tree, Santa, presents and everything else that comes with it! We had to have a FHE on Christmas cause he just couldn't seem to remember anything about Christ. So now he is fully aware why we have Christmas and is so excited him and Jesus share the same birthday month!! This year was probably the hardest year we've had so far while decorating the tree. Damian broke an ornament within the first 5 seconds of pulling them out. Then he busted the video camera while we were trying to film, and just constantly getting into everything we didn't want him to. It's true when kids hit 2 it's really hard and crazy all the time!!! Taden did pretty good trying to block Damian from breaking everything!!! We did make it through as soon as Damian pulled all the cushions off of the couch and starting jumping on them. That occupied him for the remainder of the Christmas tree decorating!! Gotta LOVE that kid! Hope you like our tree. We were so excited to decorate it cause we got all new stuff from a garage sale! So we put our tree together this year with all new stuff for about 8 bucks! We love good deals!!

The boys posing with us in front of the tree! Taden kept telling us how beautiful the tree was!

The boys were trying my hat on! What fun kids we have and yes I am fully aware that its the end of Nov and my boys still have no clothes on!!! Its not worth the fight!!!

We had an awesome Thanksgiving this year. Floyd and Bobbi(Zane's parents) came out to be with us. We also had another family over that are also from Morgan Utah! Small world! But we ended up making so much food! And the best part was we didn't even have to cook the turkey! One of the guys that works with Zane made us a smoked turkey! It was delicious! The guys enjoyed playing in the turkey bowl while we cooked the rest of the meal. The boys were having fun in front of the camera. We are so grateful for our family and friends and hope that everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving.

My sweet mother in-law helping me prepare the Thanksgiving dinner.

The boys licking the yummy fruit dip off of the beaters while we are slaving in the kitchen!!

Can you believe that we had some HAIL here in sunny California! Its true. It was raining really hard one morning and then it started to hail. It didn't last long at all though. Kind of fun and my boys loved eating it!

Christmas is coming once again and its such a wonderful time of year. One of my favorite things about Christmas is when we can send and receive Christmas cards. Zane and I have made it a tradition each year to write a family Christmas letter attached with a photo to update everyone on where we are in life! Not only is it fun to do but its a great way to scrapbook or blog what has happened in that year. So this year we got our family pictures taken already and I've been trying to figure out what kind of cards we should send. I was reading some of my other friend's blogs and one of them had this awesome deal from Shutterfly(http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery). Anyone who blogs can get 50 free holiday cards!! I was so excited when I read this and had to check it out for myself. Shutterfly has so many great things to offer. Not only do they have amazing and fun holiday cards, they also offer personalized calendars, wall art and so much more. The website is also extremely easy to use which for me was a big plus! Here is one of my favorite cards that Shutterfly has to offer. Don't forget you can change the color on any of the cards and personalized it to make it your own. Follow this link http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/holiday-cards or http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery to see their selection of Holiday cards and Holiday photo cards. You won't be disappointed :)Enjoy!

Here it is, the one, the only VITAMIX! Thats right we finally broke down and bought one after many years of wanting one. We saw it on an infomercial and did it! I think we were caller number 10 or so!! It truly is AMAZING and its changed our lives! And thanks to the super hot models who are modeling the vitamix for us! (Zane and my little bro Cale).

There was a praying mantis in our backyard the other day and Damian was in ahh of it! He kept getting so close it was cracking me up. I just thought he was being really cute so I took a ton of pics of him!

We borrowed these costumes from Paige(Zane's sister) and they were such a big hit at our ward Halloween party. It was so much fun and we were so happy when Taden decided to be the incredibles with us instead of spiderman! We did win best family costumes, even though it really wasn't a category at the party!!!