Merry Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve and Christmas. We spent Christmas Eve with my family. We had a wonderful meal followed by the tradition of reading in Luke. My younger brothers and sisters role played it. After listening to my father and watching the kids we got to open Christmas gifts from one another. We did this a day early because Elizabeth had an early flight to San Diego Christmas morning. Evan was spoiled of course.
Christmas morning was spent at our home. Evan is still a little too young to know what was going on but we were excited to see what he will do when he sees the presents under the tree. Before we opened any we had breakfast.

Evan loves pancakes
Here are some pictures from our morning.

This is Evan seeing his Elmo Chair from Santa for the first time.


The first gift that was opened was a camera so I could capture the rest of the day without using my phone.

Much better quality! Thank you sweetheart!
Evan was really excited for Christmas.

He loves his chair. Elmo talks and it turns.

One of Matt's presents was a new wedding ring from Mrs. Clause. He accidently lost his a month or two prior.

Evan next to his stocking

Last year he was the same size as his stocking (maybe even smaller). It's fun to see the difference just in one year.


We made our way over to our friends, Austin and Amy, for a gift exchange before we headed up to Spanish Fork to spend time with Matt's Family. Michael wasn't home yet from work so we went to my parents to see what they got and played some games with them. We gave my mom the old school Nintendo system with her favorite game, Mario 3.

She was in heaven.
When Michael came home we got to open more presents. Evan once again got spoiled. We're glad we didn't buy more than the chair and blocks because he is set for next Christmas! Thank you everyone!
Here are some more pictures of our day.






Merry Christmas!!!

Let it Snow!!

This isn't the first fallen snow of the season but I wanted to share how much has dumped just in a few hours and it's still falling! There's about 2 feet of freshly fallen snow and I attempted to shovel it all by myself. I got all the walk ways and half the driveway and gave up. That's the one thing I hate about snow.
I went in to see if Evan was up from his nap and once he was I got him all bundled up and took him out side to play. Here are a few pictures with him playing. I got an early Christmas present, a Blackberry so I was able to capture these memories. The first time he was playing in the snow was captured by a camera that has film. I have yet to develop them. I'm grateful for digital cameras and phones that have nice cameras. I'm also grateful that it decided to start snowing. For awhile there we thought it wouldn't.



That Branch in the background fell from the weight of the snow.


Evan making a snow angel



Our little snow bunny

November Adventures

It's basically been a month since I last blogged. November has come and gone in a whirl wind so I lost track of what day it was. We had so much going on so I have a few things that I will like to blog about.

I stepped out of my comfort zone and hosted a Baby Shower for my good friend Amy. I never hosted a baby shower before so this was a new experience for me. There was so much that I wanted to do and I realized I could get in trouble by spending so much money. I thought it was a great success and it was so much fun. I had it in my home and close to 40 people showed up! It had nothing to do with me but because Amy is such a great person and loved by so many people.


I cut Evan's hair for the first time. I thought he would be fine with it but I was shocked to find that Evan was scared to death. He was shaking so bad. We didn't get any pictures of him during the cut because Matt was busy comforting him while I was trying to hurry. I felt so bad. Once I was done he calmed down and went back to playing. He wouldn't hold still long enough for a really good after shot.


Thanksgiving was really special this year. Since Grandma Haymore has been having medical problems, Uncle David invited the whole family for Thanksgiving dinner. He planned it for the day after Thanksgiving so more people could show up. That let us have another Thanksgiving Dinner with Grandpa Thompson. We left Tuesday night so we could have more time with him. On Thanksgiving we offered to help make food but Grandpa declined. During dinner we understood why. He wanted to prove to himself that he could do it and oh my gosh! It was delicious!! We all couldn't get over how yummy it all was. I'm still craving his Turkey and homemade stuffing. It's making me hungry just thinking about it! I still felt bad for not helping prepare the food so I offered to help with the dishes after I put Evan down for his nap. Before we dug into pie and ice cream we drove to the cemetery to visit Grandma Thompson's grave. I never been there so I'm glad we went.


After the cemetery we went to a fun park. When I went to upload the photo's they were blurry. Our camera decided that it didn't want to work for us anymore so I'm really sad. I'm going through withdraw ls. I'm glad Laura took photos of the trip because I wouldn't have any so thanks Laura! They aren't super blurry but you can't see much of Evan's face. He was having so much fun chasing birds with Daddy.
The camera might be set to something that I can't figure out how to fix because we filmed him on this awesome swing and it turned out clear. I guess we need to fiddle with it more.

Thanks Grandpa for a great Thanksgiving and a fun stay!

For the Haymore Thanksgiving, we enjoyed being with Family and eating delicious food. Here are some pictures of our afternoon.
Preparing the food



Playing games before and after dinner

We invited the missionaries since they were in the building.

Most of the gang that was there


A picture of Evan


It was great seeing Grandma Haymore. She's looking great. Here she is with the Thompson Grandkids.


The plan was to go home the next day but Matt and I decided to stay an extra day and leave Sunday morning so we could have more time with Family. Laura stayed with us but before the rest of the family left, we joined our Hamblin cousins in the hunt for their two Christmas tree's. Aunt Gwen missed her flight home from Georgia so she couldn't be there was us. Another reason why we wanted to stay an extra day so we could see her. We went into the mountains and we were expecting it to be cold but it was really hot!





There were dogs there and the younger kids loved them especially Evan.



Before we left we had their yummy Apple Cider. We never had anything that tasted so good. Before we went home we stopped off at In and Out. A must have when we visit a place that has one. I miss not being able to go there whenever I want too.
Matt continued to help our cousins with the trees and he helped put up Christmas lights on the house when we got back.

Either Matt saw the fruit growing on their neighbors tree or Chris showed him. They brought them in to show us and they are huge! Can you guess what they are?

If you guessed a grapefruit you are wrong. They're lemons!

The guys had to try them hehe!




Here are some cute pictures of the kids. Faith was sitting on Alaina because she was in her chair lol.

That's better!

Evan playing with Faith

and just Evan.


We had a great time in California and we hope to visit again soon. We woke up bright and early for our drive home. Before we drove into Salt Lake we stopped to look at the Salt Flats. I never really saw them in the day time because we always drove through when it was dark. We also wanted Evan to run around.





Now we get to look forward to Christmas!