Birthdays, Holidays, Weddings, and Crafts

Holy Moly there's a lot I have to post about. Instead of going into great detail about everything and making this real borng, Im just gonna post lots of pictures. Because pictures say a thousand words right?! ok cool!! we'll start from October and then move on.

October
CONNOR'S BIRTHDAY

 

   

He got the cool duck shirt that he wanted!

Connor had a great 25th Birthday!! We spent his birthday playing games with some friends and ate some yummy food.  Then we celebrated it again with our siblings at Karissa and Toby's where Zeke helped Connor blow out the candles. 

 HALLOWEEN:
Every Halloween Karissa and Toby throw a Pumpkin Party!!! The party usually includes, eating lots of yummy pumpkin food, and then a game that involves pumpkins and theennn the party ends by carving a pumpkin!!!

 

 

This year the game Toby made was pumpkin shuffle board!

Connor's awesome Mario pumpkin!

Zeke's favorite Holiday is Halloween. You've never seen a kid so happy

This year for Halloween I ended up working until 8pm so we didn't do anything too exciting.  Connor came to work with me and since we knew it was going to be dead, he stayed and played games with me all night in between the few haircuts I had to do. 

November

THANKSGIVING:

This year we spent Thanksgiving at the Willises.  This meant I got to be with this goofy lady for a few days!

The cute couple!!! It was fun to spend some time with them and get to know Karoline a little better before she joined the fam!

Connor was in charge of the place tags and he went allll out.  I was sad I didn't get a picture of all of them.  But each person had a thanksgiving type picture drawn into their name. He's pretty talented huh?

Since we were all together, we took some family pictures!!

This is my other family, they're pretty awesome huh?

YUMMMMY food and GREAT company!!!

CHRISTMAS!!!

Christmas at the Limbs!!!!! Oh man, I LOVE being with my family!! It just makes me so happy!! While we were there we went bowling, played gym games, decorated Christmas cookies, played lots of games, and had an unforgettable Christmas Eve and Christmas!!

 During the gym games this year, Jess and Trent brought a couple of big jump ropes, and we all brushed up on our jump roping skills.  MAN! My siblings ROOOCK at jump rope. Especially the girls.  Me, on the other hand, I could run in and out, and jump like everyone else, but I never was able to conquer the double dutch! That's when TWO big ropes are swinging opposite and you have to run in and jump with both!! I couldn't ever accomplish the entering part of that one.

After jump rope, we played some volleyball with a really big ball.  My momma was being as awesome as ever, diving for the ball and then ended up hurting her wrist.  We think she hit the ball as the same time it hit the wall and it hit back at her.  It allowed us the opportunity to help her make the big Christmas eve dinner and learn some of her skills.  

 

Kendra and Tyleen were in charge of decorating the table for the fancy Christmas Eve dinner.  They made each plate look like a snowman and hung balloons from the ceiling to look like it was snowing :) 

Every year this picture is redone. Sometimes the people change, but the posing are pretty much the same. 

Our awesome mom made us these cool aprons and gave us a cool cook book!!! She's the BEST

AND my dad MADE these SUPER cool salt and pepper shakers!

Karissa was in charge of the big Christmas Eve game and she did SUCH a good job!!!! We would compete for a present we knew, or a mystery present! It was TONS of fun!!

Toby was so proud of himself for betting Connor in a sporty competetion

But, Devin ended up beating them both! 

INTENSE musical chairs!

The mystery gift I ended up getting was two framed pictures drawn by Zeke and Porter!!! TOTALLY AWESOME!

CHRISTMAS MORNING!:

I got more spoiled then I ever have in my ENTIRE life this year!! I couldn't believe it! Every gift I opened I almost fainted with excitement!

Believe it or not, in this picture Tyleen is the one that got the Cricut. I was just SO happy for her! 

THEN I GOT ONE!!!! 

I should have taken more cool pictures of Connor during Christmas.  He got spoiled too!! Here's one of him and his awesome new back pack! Something I was excited about giving him was a scooter!! yes, I am in fact talking about those little razor kick scooters.  On Sunday afternoons when it isn't freeezing outside, we have had many occasions when we wanted to go on a scooter ride! Welllll, NOW WE CAN!!!!!

I also got a REALLY nice sewing machine from my parents!! Can you believe how spoiled I am!!?!?!? Gosh I can't wait to make a million things with my two awesome crafty toys!!!

 Christmas afternoons usually include us playing with our new toys, eating yummy food, and being lazy.  This is what happened that night. We all gathered around with our ipads and exchanged our favorite apps. hahah this picture cracks me up. 

January
MORGAN AND KAROLINE"S WEDDING

From our hotel windows it over looked a big field full of snow.  Connor decided he had better make it obvious to all what the theme of the weekend was so he went and stomped out Morgan and Karoline's initials in the snow for all to see! 

I got the opportunity to do Karoline's hair for her big day!!

The newest Mr. and Mrs. Willis!!

It was a really fun weekend celebrating Morgan and Karoline's wedding.  After the reception, we kept the tradition where, after you say goodbye to the newly weds and get the reception all cleaned up, then you spend the rest of the night relaxing in the hot tub with the fam.  I just love weddings, they're so much fun! And I'm so happy to get another awesome sister in law! Congratulations Morgan and Karoline!

MORE CRAFTS:

I made another table runner!!! This is actually the same table runner, but it's reversable!!!! Pretty cool huh? It's a good fall and halloween one!!! WAY fun to make and I felt pretty accomplished because I figured out the quilting all on my own!!! 

Well folks, thats all I have for ya.  I told you there'd be LOTS of pictures!!! Hopefully I'm better and keeping you updated this time!!