Christmas Cookies

Rylie had a blast decorating Christmas cookies this year. She stuck with it until the entire batch was decorated!

Birthday Party for Jesus

My super creative aunt, Kathy, threw a birthday party for Jesus for all of the kids in our family. It was so cute! She told the Christmas story, had a craft for them to do, sang Christmas carols, had a live nativity to take photos with, and of course, had a birthday cake. Rylie was so little the last time she had one that she didn't really get to participate, but this year, she had a blast!

Intently listening to the Christmas story.

Singing Christmas carols.

Jingle Bells!

Craft time.

Rylie holding Baby Jesus. :)

The cute little nativity she made.

Christmas Tree

We are actually moving later this month, so we did not put any Christmas decorations at our house this year due to packing. Rylie got to go to my parents house to help them decorate their Christmas tree. She was into it for about 10 minutes and until a majority of the bottom of the tree was covered with ornaments, and then it was back to playing. :)

Opening her new ornament from Papa and Grandma.

Rylie went camping overnight with my parents this year and then Brandon and I joined them the next day, so she got a camping ornament. :)

How Grandma and Rylie ended the night...looking at the Christmas lights across the street and drinking their hot chocolate.

Go 'Lopes!

We have a good family friend that is one of the basketball coaches for Vanguard University in Southern California and they were in town to play Grand Canyon last night. If you don't already know, Brandon's undergrad was done at Grand Canyon and now he works for them as a full time faculty member. We decided it would be a fun time to take Rylie to her first college basketball game. And sorry, Boomer, we had to cheer for the 'Lopes... :)

Yes, she has popcorn in her mouth in every picture. I'm pretty sure this is why she likes sporting events...nothing wrong with a little bribery! :)

Showing off her future 'Lopes shirt.

Making the 'Lopes sign with her hand...

...and trying really hard to make it again. :)

This cheering stuff is exhausting!

Thanksgiving Weekend 2012

For Thanksgiving this year, we headed to Pinetop to my parents cabin. We actually celebrated Thanksgiving on Friday when more of our extended family was able to come up and join us. It's always nice to get out of Phoenix and into the cooler weather and just relax...and that's pretty much what our weekend consisted of!

Checking out everything with Papa Perkins. :)

One way to relax while the boys are watching golf. :)

Our Thanksgiving spread.

An adorable game of London Bridges. :)

How we spent the rest of Thanksgiving...I love this.

Daddy's girl!

Walking the fairway with Daddy and Papa.

Making taffy with Kylee.

So did you know that in order to pull taffy, you have to slather your hands in butter?! I'm pretty sure Rylie thought that was the coolest part of the whole process. Kylee and her went through an entire stick of butter!

Sampling the taffy...yeah it didn't take her long to figure out that it tasted pretty good. :)

Wrapping her taffy pieces.