McKinley Jane and Grant Alan

It's so funny having them cook with me because they can actually be a pretty big help now! Picking out a REAL tree!! Warming his toes by the fire :) Warming her booty It snowed for about 5 minutes!  So fun to see the kids reaction

This Thanksgiving was far different than any other vacation we've ever done and I have to say it was one of my favorite!  We decided to celebrate with Thanksgiving dinner on Wednesday instead of Thursday and after having an early dinner we opened up our family "kick off Christmas" box which included new PJ's for everyone, a Christmas movie, and our new friend Berntau, The Elf on the Shelf!  What a fun, fun night.  On Thanksgiving we went to an indoor water park and since it was Thanksgiving there was only about 20 people in the whole building so we were able to do whatever rides we wanted.  Might be our new tradition!   Grant cutting butter for the sweet potatoes It was gorgeous outside so we had dinner on the deck Opening our Kick Off Christmas gift Trying to decide on a name Grant and Daddy decorating the special tree for Grant's room.  They picked out all their own ornaments, lights, etc. Getting ready to watch our sp...

I have so many funny quotes stored in my phone so this update is going to be a "Heard Around the Nuttle House" update with pics! Grant: I was doing a homeschool theme of "Farm" so we were turning cream into butter.  I asked the kids "Where does milk come from?" and Grant shouted "THE REFRIGERATOR!!"  Winner... Grant has an imaginary friend and while it makes playdates easy (haha!) I sometimes get worried about how "real" this friend is to him.  One day we were having lunch and he goes "Do you hear that?"  He took off running to the door, opened it up and said "Hey Choni! (the name of his friend).  Hi Choni's dad, how are you doing?  Come on in".  He then proceeded to have Choni sit by him and eat.  The downside to all this is that whenever something happens I will ask the kids who did it and immediately their reply is "Choni" :/ Grant has turned into such a big boy lately and we've been doing...

To celebrate my parents 50th Anniversary we took a trip to Branson and managed to get all of the family members except one which is a pretty big feat!  We went to a show, Silver Dollar City, miniature golfing and then hanging out with cousins.   Playing spoons...my new favorite game

For those of you from Arizona, Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders are rivals so wearing Raiders jerseys to church and then supporting the Raiders at the game was definately a risk haha!  We ended up sitting by some very fun Chiefs fans and had a great time!  And Raiders won :) This band was HILARIOUS!  They were called Almost Kiss.  So funny!

Halloween has always been my favorite time in Arizona so I was a little worried about whether or not we would have the fun activities in Kansas City and we weren't let down at all!  And bonus...it wasn't 100 degrees :)  We went to a pumpkin patch with our playgroup, Chad and I hit the big haunted houses downtown, we did a trunk or treat with another playgroup, we did the fall festival at my hospital and then we went trick or treating.  Whew!  The kids loved Halloween this year.  Definately got the concept of knocking on a door and getting candy!  As always we did our family tradition of homemade pizza and had our neighbors come and eat with us after trick or treating.  It was a lot of fun and the kids had a blast playing until about 10 p.m.! My pinterest costume taht McKinley then wouldn't wear b/c she preferred the $3 garage sale one Oh my goodness she was loving feeding the animals this year!  after they picked out ...