Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! I am very thankful for my family and friends and spending quality time with them all. Our Thanksgiving was full of fun. The day before we spent the day making 4 pies to take along with us. We loaded up the car and drove to Belton to celebrate at my Aunts and Uncles house. The whole Blanton crew was there. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving lunch and ate way to much. That is what you are supposed to do on Thanksgiving. All the kids ran around crazy and wore themselves out. After lunch settled we moved right into dessert. Everyone said they loved the pies, hopefully they weren't just trying to be nice. That evening we headed down to the plaza to visit with some friends and watch the lights and firework show. It was great Josh and Lindsey have an apartment right on the plaza so we ate and stayed inside for a while, then walked down stood there for about a minute and then the count down began, lights came on, and off goes fireworks. After all the fun was over we walked right back up to the apartment and visited some more. It was great timing. We were very Thankful for Josh and Lindsey to invite all of their friends down for the evening. We had a great time together. Payton and Kobi had a good time too. The girls with Aunt KK and Amanda

Nana and the girls

Daddy's girl

Jessica Kobi

Our Family

The girls

holding hands

Dress up

They are so much fun to watch. The other night I was putting away Payton's laundry and she pulled out a dancing outfit that one of our neighbors gave us for playing dress up. She insisted on wearing it. "Put on dress, Please". She asked over and over while I was putting other clothes away. When I was finished I got her all dressed in it and she had to wear the hat too. She had this outfit on for 3 hours running all around and spinning in circles to watch to skirt move. She would twirl around until she was dizzy and fell over. She had so much fun. She is such a girly girl, she loves dressing up. I tried to video tap but she wouldn't perform when I was holding up the video camera so a couple of pictures will have to do.

I love Lady Bugs

We had a great fun filled day of Halloween on Saturday. We all had pumpkin shaped apple cidar pancakes for breakfast. Then we spent the later morning carving our pumpkin. Payton sat paying very close attention to her daddy carving her pumpkin for her. She didn't want any part of touching the pumpkin but wanted to sit close. That afternoon after nap time we got dressed in her lady bug costume. We ate dinner at our neighbors house, we all brought halloween themed food and ate before going trick-or-treating. The kids had a great time and then it was finally getting a little dark so we can start heading out to fill up their buckets. We went mainly up our main street by our house. That was enough for Payton and then we went up to the church for trunk-or-treat. Mema, Poppop, Tyler and the girls.

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!!

Treats as far as the eye can see

I spent most of Friday along with Payton's help making Halloween treats. We had a great time, she loves trying to help you mix anything you put in bowls. I had found some fun looking witches and Dracula's to make. We also made some pumpkin-doodle cookies. Everything turned out good and we took them to our friends house Friday night and shared with the neighbors on Saturday night before trick-or-treating. What a great day

Indiana Trip

Last week Payton and I took a road trip. We picked up Nana and Mema and Poppop along the way. The five of us piled in the Tahoe and 7 hours later arrived in Indiana at Uncle Dave and Selena's house. My cousin Megan and her husband Chase along with their beautiful baby girls were there visiting from California. Megan and I last saw each other when we were pregnant so it was so great to catch up. The girls had so much fun together. We aren't friends with anyone that has a child so close to the same age as Payton. Layla is 3 months older than Payton and they got along so good together. We ate lunch at a girlie little cottage. There was even a little play inside for the little girls to play at.

The girls did everything together for the short time we were there. They played dress up, ring around the rosie, watched a couple of movies, and read books.

Payton learned how to saw Layla's name the first day and would chase her around trying to give her hugs. Layla wasn't real interested in hugging but it was entertaining to watch. It was great getting to visit and we had a great time together. Hopefully the whole family will get together again in May when one of my cousins graduates high school. I can't wait!

Love for a daughter

It still amazes me everyday how much you can love someone. I got my Christmas present early this year. We had family pictures and pictures of Payton taken by a friend of ours that Mitch and I went to high school with. She is amazing, instead of getting anything for Christmas I really wanted get her pictures taken along with a couple family shoots. It was so much fun and she captured great expressions on her. You will all get to see a couple when we send out our Christmas cards. Once you are a mother it is funny how what is more important to you changes. I used to look at clothes and items for my self that I might want. Now when I am out and about I usually see cute things and toys that I know Payton would love and hardly anything for myself. It is so much more fun to give your little one something new to play with or dressing them up in a new outfit. I wish I could do it everyday but love the days that I am able to. Thank you God for allowing me to be a mother because it is the greatest gift ever. I love you Payton.

Big Girl Payton

Yesterday was big day. Payton became and even bigger big girl. She used the potty chair twice all on her own. She had told me that she had to poop, and she hadn't gone yet. She has been telling us lately that she has gone poop after she goes but never before she has gone. So then I asked her if she wanted to sit on her potty chair and she said YES. So we went and sat upstairs on her princess potty chair and she did both. Later that evening before bath time she sat down again and went potty before getting her bath. This will be awesome if she about trains herself to go potty. I am not holding my breath that it will be that easy but you never know. Amazing what you get so excitied about when you are mom.