It the Most wonderful Time of the Year

Hopefully everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We had a great day playing football and basketball, watching the parade, eating lots of turkey and mashed potatoes, and then going to the movie. What a fun day it was. The next morning as tradition my mom and I woke up early to do some shopping (we got some good deals) and that afternoon Jer and my dad went golfing. As if the weekend couldn't have been better all ready we watched BYU beat Utah on Saturday with a winning play by Oz (my cousin Austin Collie).

I really love Thanksgiving, but even more I love that when it's over it means it's Christmas time. The house is all decorated and the tree is up and we are half way done with the outside lights. How exciting is that I can put up outside lights. This is the first year I have had a house of my own to do that. I tried to get Jer to put lights on the top roof line last night. He got to the top of the ladder and told me that his life was worth more. So this year we will be going low with the lights.

Beck is getting so big. How big I am not sure because I still have not been to the Doctor for a well check. I called yesterday and gave them hell and they got me in on the 4th. Anyways, he is crawling and climbing and even stands for a whole two seconds on his own. He says mamama and dadadad and bababa, but mostly ahhh and eeeehhh in a squealing sort of way.

Corbin is hysterical. I am absolutely loving sharing all the Christmas traditions with him. He is especially fond of the Santa bringing toys tradition. He is very into his list for Santa and lets me know in every store which things he wants on his list. I made the mistake the first time putting some of those items in the cart and telling him that we were going to give them to lady and have here put them on his list and deliver the list to Santa. Now he thinks that every toy needs to be brought to the cashier to be put on his list. All I can say it that It was a rookie move and I am a rookie mom, so I have learned my lesson. The whole coal in the stocking thing is working wonderfully though. I have ended many temper tantrums with just the mere mention of Santa watching or just humming "Santa Claus is coming to town". I would say I can't wait for Christmas, but as always I am enjoying the build up to the day so much that I don't want to speed up. Hope everyone is enjoying the season too. Can't wait to see your cards and family pics.