Project Life...

I'm sure most of you have heard about Project Life. My sister-in-law, Leslie, started doing it this year and has inspired me to start. I love that I'm scrapbooking/journaling all at the same time! 

I'm trying to get in the habit of taking a picture everyday, once I do that I'll probably do 2 pages for every week. I'm so excited to get it started! :)

If any of you are interested in doing Project Life, you can find awesome kits to get you started at ggdigitaldesigns.com. 

Growing up!

I hate those moments when you realize that life it going by way too fast! Next month Jackson will be turning 2, and Lincoln will be turning 1 in March...I can't believe it! It's a bitter sweet thing, I love seeing them grow, I love seeing their different personalities get bigger as they get older, and I love watching  them learn and discover things for themselves. But I'm just afraid it's all going to pass me by and before I know it they will be all grown up. I've made a new goal to try oh so hard to enjoy EVERY moment.  I hope that a day will never go by in our children's life that they wonder whether they are loved.  The truth is....my children bring me more joy than anything else possibly could, I'm grateful to be their mom! :)

Jackson and I made some fake snow to play in. :) If we can't go to Idaho, we'll bring a little bit of Idaho to us....sort of! :)

He got some snow on his pants and thought it was pretty funny...

This was him saying "uh oh" because he dropped a bunch of snow on the floor! He has gotten really good at saying that word...he runs around all day saying it...as he's destroying the house! :)

Ahhh....Lincoln giving that sweet smile that melts everyone's heart! :) He is such a good baby! He is currently cutting three bottom teeth, so it's been a rough week for this guy. He is getting really good at holding himself up...soon he will be walking...then I will be chasing two very active boys! :)

haha...such a silly boy!

This week Jackson has discovered the food pantry!!!!!! And he's wondering where these cans have been his whole life! :) He is at a stage where he loves stacking things. Anything...blocks, soup cans, cheerios, anything that can be turned into a tower to be knocked down!

Admiring his handy work

He was pretty bummed when he couldn't stack anymore... but he tried so hard :)

Wrapping up Christmas time... :)

This time of year is always a little bitter sweet. I miss the excitement of Christmas, the Christmas music, and how everybody is in such a giving spirit. But Christmas is exhausting when you have your own family. Making goodies, making Christmas dinner, all the parties going on, getting Christmas morning ready for the kids....the list goes on.  But my appreciation for my amazing mother if possible has increased this holiday season. My mom is pretty much amazing, how she ever did what she did with all of 9 of us kids, will never cease to amaze me.

This Christmas was especially fun. Jackson didn't quite understand everything about Christmas, but he understood some. It made Christmas come to life again, like when we were little children. Anytime he would see a Santa ..in the mall, on a movie, in a book etc, he would run around saying "Ho, ho, ho."

He especially loved making his gingerbread house and making some cookies for Santa to eat....I'm not going to lie...Santa probably didn't eat his cookies after he saw these pictures :)

Dad made his cute little gingerbread house...

But unfortunately it didn't hold together very well....haha, this picture cracks me up! :)

All is well, he discovered he can still eat it....broken and all.

 Making cookies for Santa...

 Or so we thought.... :)

 My mom made all of us matching hats for Christmas...we love them, they are so cute!

New hat and glasses...

 All tuckered out after a fun and exciting day.... :)

Since Christmas Jackson has been really enjoying his tool set!  He is going to be just like his dad!

For Christmas Don and I really wanted to get a picture of Christ for the boys' room. So I found some things on pinterest and got busy planning what I wanted for their room. We are very pleased with the outcome. We love it, just what they needed in their room. It's a good thing I have such a talented husband he can make some really amazing picture frames! ;)

BEFORE: Their room is super boring nothing on the walls....but that's all changed! :)

 I love it!....Isn't Don so talented. Thanks for putting up with me during this project babe! :)

I guess this can count for the project for this month...it actually took a really long time to makes these, but they were so delicious and so pretty! :) Its probably a treat I'll make every Christmas...it was really fun!

Our Thanksgiving...

Our Thanksgiving day was a big success! We crammed a lot of fun into the 2 days Don had off from work.  I was so exhausted when the weekend hit though.  It really makes me appreciate my amazing mother and everything she does for our family now and especially what she did for us when we were little...its a LOT of work!

Well I'm proud to say that our dinner turned out perfect this year. We spent the day with our sweet family and with the missionaries from our area.  We sure missed being around our families though!

 The day before Thanksgiving we went and got our Christmas tree!

 Jackson was loving running up and down the rows checking out all the trees!

 So every year I make a chocolate pie for Thanksgiving...mostly because its delicious...but it's the easiest pie in the entire world to make! I had some left over chocolate pudding so I decided to let Jackson enjoy it! :)

 Yep...pudding on the camera. Thanks buddy! :)

 At the beginning I was super impressed at how clean he was staying....

 Until I looked 3 minutes later....haha

 He sure loved it though...he was pretty mad at me when I had to clean it up!

 Just in case he wasn't messy enough... :)

 Thankfully he loves getting cleaned up....IF he can play in the sink!

That evening we pulled out all the Christmas stuff.  Jackson loved all the lights and he loved playing with the "his" size santa.  He doesn't really understand Christmas this year, but he knows how to say ho, ho, ho!

 Helping decorate the tree

High fiving because he got the ball on the tree all by himself! :)

 Enjoying the lights with dad...

 The day after Thanksgiving we took Jackson to see his first movie in the theaters! We took him to Wreck- it Ralph.  He sat on Don's lap without moving for the first 45 minutes but then he wanted to play on the stairs... overall for the first movie outing we thought he did really good. And we thought Wreck-it Ralph was a pretty cute movie, we recommend it! :)

A couple weeks ago some of my friends and I got together to make Christmas wreaths they turned out so cute! I'm thinking of making some more for the different holidays because I just love how mine turned out!

 It was super easy to make...you just thread the balls through on a wire hanger. So fun!