Castles In The Air

We are really taking advantage of the AZ winter weather and getting outside.  This weekend we went to the Arizona Mystery Castle, it is an Arizona must see.  Super crazy place, its built out of cement and rock and everything else you can imagine.  This old lady actually lived here up until a year ago, which would gross me out to death.  Everything is dusty and she had a lot of stuffed animals my 2 least favorite things.....and my ultimate nightmare dusty stuffed animals.

I Still Want A Hula Hoop

Peter and I have a serious love of the holiday season, much to my families dismay.  We have been watching Christmas movies since Thanksgiving and upped our holiday movie collection to a solid 25 holiday films.  We love buying gifts and doing anything holiday related.  Scout had a blast picking out her gift for the cousins gift exchange, we figured this face meant she liked it.

We love having papa pete around, she just loves her dad.  4 weeks is just not a long enough break, and we are seriously dreading next Monday when life goes back to normal and everyone goes back to work and school.

 Merry Christmas Meat Man!  I hope you keep us all well fed through 2012 with smoked meat.

 Thanks to the Haught family we were able to spend a night in Greer and then hit the slopes for some light sledding.  It was so fun to get all bundled up and play around in the snow.  However, I am glad that I don't live in the snow anymore, getting Scout all bundled up was miserable, mittens should not be part of a babies wardrobe.  

We had a great Christmas and New Years, looking forward to lots of changes this next year.  Hopefully they will all be good.


New Years Resolution:
 

Decide what I need to do to be happy everyday!

Hoop-de Doop, Dickory Dock

holidays = fun!

parades, candy, bike rides, Santa, sleep, fires, food, hats, family and a deep fried frenzy.  

unable to contain ourselves waiting for the abc family 25 days of Christmas, we have watched most of our Christmas movies already, and im sure we will watch them another 3 times before Christmas.

looking forward to temple lights, tamales and gift giving.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

 

Sugar Baby

 Peters family is really big on dressing up together for Halloween.  This year was Star Wars.  Darth Vader, a Jedi and a baby ewok what a family.  Having a baby is a holiday dream come true.  I can finally trick or treat again.  I made sure to grab the good candy too.  If you hand me a bucket of candy I'm taking the Reeses, Snickers or 100 Grand.  Dont think that just cause im holding the bag of a 5 month old that im going to take a dumdum.  

 Our little ewoks; Scout, Caroline, and Claire.  

After trick or treating Scout got her second wind and was cracking me up.  Im not sure what it is about other babies but Scout just loves them.

Spooky Scary

Scout "finch" Dangerford, our girl in overalls.  I always have great ideas and think things like going to the pumpkin patch will be so much fun and that Scout will have a blast.  But without fail every time we have something planned she decides to not nap and be fussy.  So going to the local pumpkin patch to pick out pumpkins and hangout in overalls ends up being a chore to keep our girl awake.  Also, I was very disappointed with the pumpkin selection and we walked away empty handed. 

But she looks so cute, right?

 

Before Scout was even born for some reason I really wanted her to be a cub Scout for Halloween, I'm not sure why.  I just want her to be comfortable and warm. 

 This is what Scouts face looks like most of the time these days.  You would guess that with all the drool she would be teething but you would be wrong she is just really gross that way.

After collecting all her candy loot she was sacked out and fell asleep in Dads arms on the walk home. 

*is it wrong to collect candy for baby who wont actually be eating it, i was getting some comments about it while trunk or treating. first baby first halloween we are trick or treating folks. am i right? 

You're My Best Friend

i love how much scout loves her dad.
peter just walks in the room or gives her a look and she giggles and
he knows how to hold her just right to make her fall asleep.

who wouldn't love those smiley faces....twins right?