A trip to see Santa!

My girl was NOT happy about sitting on Santa's lap! Brandon was never afraid as a little boy so this was a whole new experience for me. Luckily she's even cute when she is crying! :)

She never sits for more than 3 seconds! 

I love Brandon's face. It explains how he feels so well! He loves his sissy but she is such a handful sometimes! 

Moving and Thanksgiving

We have been busy busy over here packing up our house! Moving is no fun but we are excited for our next adventure!!

 

 One of us loves moving though...she can't get enough of all the mess and boxes! It's heaven for her!!

 

Thanksgiving was so wonderful this year. We had a great time with both our families! Brighton just loves cousin Kelsee!

Brandon and Donovan are inseparable. They are such great friends!!

This year Brandon helped Nana to make her famous Orange Rolls! They turned out AMAZING! Way to go Brandon!!

Brighty thought it would be nice to share her celery with Holly. She's so sweet! Ha!

 Cousin love! I am so thankful we will be living 20 mins from our cousins!

 Adventures at Grandpa's four acres. The boys just love it there!

Bran had such a blast on the quad at Grandpas that now he wants one for Christmas. Yikes!!

Now, on to Christmas!!

New Baby!

We can hardly believe it, but we are expecting another baby June of next year! Brighton and the baby will be 21 months apart! 

 We told Brandon about the big news by getting him this special ice cream cake. He read it and figured it out right away. Then he started to cry with happiness. I just love my sweet boy!

He was happy, I promise! He was just having a hard time smiling because a few days prior he fell off his bike and got some major scrapes. Poor guy. 

We are all so excited about the big changes happening in our family! We are blessed! 

We are moving!

We can hardly believe that we are moving in a couple weeks! It is happy and sad all at the same time. We have had many chances so grow and learn while up here in Northern California. We have met some life long, wonderful friends. We will miss them and this home, and the incredible memories we have made here. That being said, we are so excited to be going back home to So Cal! Living close by both of our families is going to be amazing! John has not lived in Southern California for TEN years!!! What a blessing it is that he got a new job opportunity and that we can make this move. We have prayed for it every night for 2 years and 2 months, exactly! 

Brandon's 10 Halloweens!

Brandon has been around for TEN Halloweens now! Crazy! I love seeing how he changes each year. 

October fun and Halloween night!

 Brandon did a great job of carving his pumpkin this year. It is always MY job to clean it out...he gets too grossed out! :)

These "brain" cupcakes were SO fun to make! We "booed" a couple friends with these. Brandon would take them to the door and drop them off, ring the bell, then run. :) He loves doing this kind of thing!!

 I honestly LOVE making holiday treats. I'm actually a little obsessed with finding cute treats on pinterest! 

My little butterfly flying around the police station while brother had a tour with the cub scouts. 

I got a ton of pictures of Brighty looking in her pumpkin! She loves that thing!

Just before we left to go trick-or-treating! Brandon's hair was supposed to be yellow...not sure why it turned this color!

I am so grateful for our wonderful friends that kept an eye on Brandon (and even brought it home afterwards!) while John and I slowly walked the neighborhood with our little bee. 

Brandon stayed out till 8:30 with his buddies while John and I went home with Brighty after an hour of collecting candy. They both had a fantastic time! Brighty learned how to walk up and take candy from strangers...so glad we taught her that! Ha! Brandon came home with some major loot and the biggest smile on his face, EVER! What a great night!!