Thanksgiving

I have so many things to be thankful for... but I was most thankful to get to see my family for a few days. I don't mean to brag (well...maybe just a little bit) but I pretty much have the most awesome family. Trust.
Thanksgiving was at our house this year which means ALL of my cousins and aunts and uncles came. There was a lot!

I truly have THE cutest grandparents ever. Try and tell me this picture doesn't make you smile?! 

Rachel and Diane. My beautiful seesters!

Con Bon, giving the stink eye. 

Dale and Babo (pronounced babe-o). 

Jas and I! True love at its best. 

The infamous teeter-totter. Countless children have been injured on this thing. I believe my great grandpa made it probably close to a hundred years ago and it somehow ended up in our backyard. This thing is the wonkavator of teeter-totters. It doesn't just go up and down it can pretty much go any way you like. And if you get someone in the middle to spin you around, you can get going pretty darn fast. And if you're in the devious mood you can drop to the ground mid super spin and get the other person to fly off! How do I know this...? I don't know. My cousin tried to see how many little kids it would take to balance him out. I think it took  like 5 or 6. Haha! 

This picture captures the beautiful weather that is Arizona Fall/Winter. Clear skies, green trees...perfect for a little joy ride! Oh how I miss it!

I love times together like this with the fam. And I love this car. 

Harry Potter Love

I realized I never posted about Halloween! Let me just preface by saying, I thought our costumes turned out pretty awesome! I was pretty humble about it too. We were Luna Lovegood and Neville Longbottom from Harry Potter. By the end of HP 7.2 Neville Longbottom was pretty high up there on the awesome-HP-character list! So I only figured it was appropriate that Jason get to be Neville since he's number one on my just-down-right-awesome list! Here's what we looked like:

Our attempts at a self portrait before the wards Halloween party in our usual pose of me trying to be taller and Jason trying to pretend he's shorter. 

At the party we ran into some fellow Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws!

Jason's wand that we picked up at Ollivander's. (aka, he pulled it off a tree on our way to the church. Haha!)

Mug Shot

A few weeks ago Jason and I went to one of those paint-your-own-pottery places and made Christmas mugs! This was such a fun date. You get to sit and paint and talk for like 4 hours. It's simple and such a blast!

Jason's mug was amazing! A cute little snowman giving a gift to his cute little snow woman. What a thoughtful little snowman. 

I was proud of how his snowflakes and icicles turned out. 

I chose to go the ornament route. 

My two favorite ornaments. I replicated the ornament that Jason and I made for our first Christmas last year. We mod podged a wedding picture to the back of a canning jar lid. It's definitely my favorite ornament! And I was pretty proud of how it and my snowflake turned out. 

I love Christmas time. It's so fun to make your own Christmas traditions.