What should he be when he grows up?

My 14 month old is trying to decide....

A tupperware consultant
A sock model

A kitchen organizer

A cook (a doctor on his days off)

A dishwasher (a doctor on his days off)

Or maybe he'll just stay a kid for a while

We are having a great December so far. The parties and get togethers have been enjoyable. Now we can relax for the rest of the month. We have had hardly any snow. Someone the other day said, "I wish we were having a white Christmas. I don't like green Christmases." GREEN??? That is a generous description of a southern Utah winter. he he he. We will spend Christmas with Kimball's family in Enterprise. I am excited for McKay to open presents, even though we should really just be getting him a cardboard box and that would keep him busy for a couple hours. :)

{MERRY CHRISTMAS}

Blissful Weekend

Definition of blissful weekend: having your husband home all day Saturday and all day Sunday.

Haircut

As I have mentioned before, I have trimmed McKay's hair in the front and back many times. His hair has been a lot of fun, but the length and thickness and all-over-the-place-ness was getting to me. So, that led to a REAL haircut.

{Before haircut. McKay is sitting with his cousin Sam. Side note: when we visited Sam & Lauren in Seattle, Lauren would refer to me as "Shelley" and Sam would refer to me as "McKay's mommy." Cute.}

{After haircut with the barber himself}

{Spiky hair McKay is sitting in front of the spiky tree- he figured that one out real quick}

Thanksgiving

We spent a day in downtown Seattle when we were there for Thanksgiving, and what a fun, cold day we had!

We saw the Nutcracker ballet with 15 extended family members (yearly tradition courtesy of grandma)

We rode the carousel

It was kind of chilly

We saw the gingerbread houses that various companies have commissioned to be made all out of different types of candy and food. Very cool!

Thankful for family

pictures taken by Melinda Bowler

I am thankful to have these boys a part of my life (even though McKay doesn't look very thankful). I just loved his little face on this picture, so I had to add it. We leave today to spend Thanksgiving in Seattle, my true HOME! I can't wait to be there again. That place holds so many memories for me, especially around Thanksgiving time as we have a lot of traditions as a family there for this holiday.

Free Babysitting Anyone?

(This picture doesn't really have anything to do with the post other than I was excited to have a couple hours of free time with no pots and pans on the ground. Ha ha)

Last night the young women of our ward offered free baby-sitting from 6-8pm at the church during their normal mutual activity. During the day yesterday, I kept thinking to myself, "I don't think I'll take McKay over there. Kimball will be at scouts and I don't really have anything I have to do." Then one of the YW came over to remind me, and I think I sensed a pleading in her voice to let her play with McKay that night, so I reconsidered, and I am SO glad.

Let's just say I felt a little funny driving to the church because I thought, "I'm going to be the only one bringing my kid and they're going to think that I am a crazy mom," but when I arrived, there were tons of kids already there!! (Yahoo) So I got to spend a couple hours alone at my house while the girls googly eyed over McKay. When I picked him up, they said, "he was the only baby that didn't cry. He is soooo good!" Sweet. Good ending to a great two hours alone.

Happy Fall

With fall comes BYU football for our family! This year hasn't been so great, but last Saturday's game was fantastic! We went with Brian and my parents.

McKay played with Blake & Heather (Kimball's brother) while we watched the game.