January must be the tired month. Alex likes to watch movies on the computer. He also likes to sneak things in to eat when he is watching. This kid has some stealth ninja skills. Usually I go in to check on him because we know he does this now. I came in to find crackers, cookies, and even the brown sugar. Despite all this sugar he had fallen asleep at the computer. I thought it was kind of cute so I took a picture. Little did we know that this would be a normal thing. He has been falling asleep at the computer hard at work watching his movies. We have tightened down the brown sugar stealing efforts though.   He is such a cute boy!

 Just a candid family photo opp of us us in front of our house. Alex is very loving and caring.  He can't get enough snuggling.  There is no lack of love at our house with him around.

 Sick day!  Nice picture that Alex took with his Vteck Innotab.  A little Who's The Boss, A gallon of Orange juice and day in our pajamas. Didn't know that Alex took this but I thought it was fun, because when do we ever take a picture of real life, especially when we are sick. Also made me realize how badly our little dusty needs a grooming!

 Thank you Texas Roadhouse. Spencer's work was invited to a free meal at the Texas Roadhouse for their training day.  It was lots of fun with some of his co-workers.

November and December

Things did not slow down after we moved into our house. We had Thanksgiving at our new house with Criscell's family.  Love that we have a lot of room to have all the family over. Of course we took NO PICS in November! I can't believe it.  I am sure that Spencer snapped something on his phone I will have to post later.  December, just as crazy as the rest, but loving it back here in Utah. 

We were invited by some good friends of ours to the Santa Claus parade. Luckily there was no snow. Alex had an ear ache in November so we made sure that even though it was not really cold, we covered those ears.  If you notice my lovely bangs, yes I tried to trim them myself and messed up big time. Sorry to my great friend Julie who does my hair. I should have called.

 Spencer kind of looks creepy in a few of these. He is like the crazy stalker man who just jumped into our picture. LOL!

 Christmas!!!! All AJ asked Santa to bring him for Christmas was a fishy. Santa delivered. AJ named his new beta fish, Pizza.  Of course the first two names he wanted we vetoed by mom and dad. The first was pee pee, and the second poo poo!  this kid cracks me up!  

 Alex also got a manly apron. He loves to cook with mom and paint and play with play dough, so we got him an apron to do all these fun things.

 Dad got some new basketball shorts! As if he didn't have enough. He loves them!

 Spencer surprised me with a new coat. I love it and it was a big surprise.  I needed it bad.  

You will have to ignore the our pathetic Christmas tree in the background. Didn't have time to go get one. We decided it was going to be too much work this year. Next year! 

 Alex is very good at helping all of us open our gifts!

October Halloween!!!

So October was a crazy month. We moved into our new house on September 27th. Yeah!!! We love our house. There was a lot of unpacking and trying to figure out where things were, and I of course forgot to take pictures on halloween of all of us.  Luckily my sister caught these adorable shots of Alex in his Batman costume.  

My sister and her boyfriend got AJ this cute Batman mask and cape.  So all he could talk about is being Batman for Halloween.  We were on a tight budget, due to the purchase of a new house and all, so I had to make the shirt with the muscles and the glow stick utility belt.  Got to love all a dollar. Spencer was so busy at work and trying to get the house in order he did not dress up this year. I went as the mother of a three year old. I put my hair in a messy pony tail and dressed in my sweats. Easy costume, I basically went as myself!!!

Even though our Halloween wasn't the normal big production, we managed to keep our tradition as the "Hot Chocolate house". We love to hand out candy and hot chocolate. We are always known as the "Hot Chocolate house". 

Watch out Hollywood, here is your new Batman!