Jason's 1st Haircut

He's had a few trims, but we've never cut the whole thing before, and it was getting pretty long in the back and around the ears...
So on Saturday, we set Jason up in his high chair and gave him a much needed haircut.

We got him to sit still by putting in Finding Nemo...that's the only one we have so far that he'll sit and watch. And it did the trick.

It's much shorter, much cleaner, and much cuter.

Jazz v Magic

Brent and I went to my first NBA game this week. The Orlando Magic were playing the Utah Jazz here at the ES Arena. And our brother in law tipped us off on some really cheap tickets! $6 each...not bad...if you're ok with these seats.

You would think this picture was taken from the ceiling, but no, this was our veiw of the game.

And here we are on the very last row on the upper balcony - yes, that is the wall behind us. haha.

We went with my sister, Kristin and a bunch of her friends.
It was pretty fun.

Brent got to see some of his favorite players play...and loose, unfortunately.

It was a pretty good game during the 2nd half, though. And there were some pretty amazing plays!

After the game is when the fun started, although we didn't get any pictures of it. We got to our car and it wouldn't start. Our gas meter doesn't work too well, so we figured it was out of gas. We started walking around trying to find a gas station. The closest one was 4 blocks away. I was in heels, so Brent dropped me off at a hotel to stay in the lobby so he could walk a little faster. Well, he ended up going to 5 gas stations looking for one that was open and had a gas can he could borrow...He walked a total of 10 blocks. Poor guy! Luckily, we got a hold of Kristin and she and her friends were able to come pick him up and drive him back to our car so he didn't have to walk all the way back. On our way home, we saw that it was 5* outside!! I felt so bad!! But so thankful for my awesome husband!

Oh Christmas Tree

I love having a Christmas tree!! I love decorating it...you can read more about that {here} if you want...I love how it makes our house look. I love the lights! I love the colors!

And Jason's been surprisingly ok with it.

I was worried that he'd want to play with the "balls" and that I'd be constantly pulling him away from it. But he's hardly even interested in it.

And last year I was smart enough to by shatterproof ornaments after Christmas when they were super cheap, so even if he gets them, most of them just bounce. Shatterproof ornaments are amazing! I love them!!

Anyway, he does like to play around the tree, though. The other day I couldn't see him, but I could hear him... Do you see what I see?

Take a closer look:

He was just hangin out behind the tree.

Oh, I just love this little boy!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Setting Up Christmas

This year, Jason really enjoyed helping me take our nativity set out of the box.

I introduced him to every figure.
He only tried to eat a few of them...

Later as I was decorating the tree, Jason found some goodies.

"uh oh...you're not going to be mad at me, are ya mom?"

"these are so good!"

"I just can't get it out of the wrapper very well!"

"oh, there's a piece"

"yeay"

"I love Christmas!"

Merry Christmas everyone!

Our Thanksgiving

We went to visit the Viehwegs for Thanksgiving this year.

Before Thanksgiving, Natalie's school choir performed at the Festival of Trees downtown. They were very good and really cute!! Our favorite part was when they had to step back and forth to the beat....the 2nd graders had a really hard time singing and watching their director and trying to step all at the same time!! It was hilarious!! After the performance, we took Jason over to see Santa Clause for the very first time.

He didn't know what to think - just stared at him the whole time.

When Santa tried to give him a candy cane he looked at it like 'why would I want that?'

And then he just wanted to get down!

Since we were at the Festival of Trees, we went around looking at all the trees. They always have a great show!
These were my two favorites:

I love silver and gold - and those bells are so pretty!

And I love magnolias - isn't this tree beautiful!?! I might add a few flowers to my tree someday. Maybe gardenias, though, I love those ones!

And here were Brent's two favorite trees:

Topped with a glove and hat!

And this one was so awesome! The stepping tiles lit up one by one. It was really cool.

At home, we just hung out with family as usual. Deb brought out this rocking toy that used to be her grandma's and Jason loved playing in it.

Especially with Grandpa.

We had a big group for the Thanksgiving Feast.

And feast we did - it was delicious!! I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving as well!

We did a little bit of shopping on Friday and watched the big BSU game that night. Then we headed home Saturday morning to make it to the BYU v Utah game. It was cold, but Jason still managed to take a nap in the middle of it. I have no idea how he does that!
We really loved being there! It was a great way to end the season - it almost made it so everything else that happened this year didn't matter. Because we beat Utah!

At the end of the game, our fans rushed the field. It was really fun.

What a great Last BYU Football Game for us to go to!!

We're really going to miss them!

Jason's First Word

We are always telling Jason what things are called...and I guess one thing actually stuck. ,What you can't tell from this video is that we acutally didn't prompt Jason to say anything at first. We just showed it to him and he knew what it was.

I also think he might now what "yeah" means...because he says that a lot, too. Pretty exciting stuff!

Check This Out

It's worth watching, even though it's the day after Veteran's Day.
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