What we've been up to

So I have been really bad about blogging the last few months! I am ready to turn over a new leaf and try to be better so I can have documentation of our where-a-bouts and what-a-bouts (I just made that up). I am the same with my written journal. I use to write every week, then I had a baby and it became every few weeks, then I had another baby and it has become every other month. I love having my written journal, but I also love having this blog because I do not scrapbook and never plan to, so this is a great way for me to document our memories! I would love if my parents had something like this, so I know our kids will love it when they get older. So, this blog will consist of some of the happenings from the last couple weeks!! I will start with the most recent. Last weekend we were able to go to the symphony with Ben and Kara. Jason grew up going to the symphony so he loves it and introduced me when we got married. We have been able to go to a few over the last several years. We love it. It's fun to get dressed up and go downtown and listen to talented musicians! We had a great time!

It has been so fun the last couple weeks getting ready for Christmas. The weekend after Thanksgiving, we put up all of our Christmas decorations and went and got our Christmas tree. We had debated wether to put one up or not with busy little Isaac. I just knew that he would be pulling everything off of it all day and getting pine needles everywhere. But it made us so sad to think of not having a tree, so we found a spot that we could put it and when he's awake we can blockade it so he can't touch it. Perfect! This was the first year that we bought one at one of those little places off the side of the road. We were on our way to Lowes which is where we usually go, but we found a little place that was a lot closer for us so we stopped there. It was so fun. They had a little fire going, so the little boys and I stood around that while Jason loaded the tree on our car. The tree is the most perfect tree we have ever had! I love it. We brought it home and had fun watching Elf and putting all the decorations on the tree. It is especially fun this year because Bjorn is older and understands so much more. He really gets into everything. While we were decorating the tree, he was singing Christmas songs and drinking his hot chocolate. He was in heaven! We also got a cool gingerbread house kit from Costco for 10 bucks! Bjorn had so much fun putting it together with us. He also had fun eating it over the next several days. All thats left now is a little house with a few decorations. He ate all the trees and bushes:) It was way too tempting for him! Another fun thing was our Ward Christmas Party last weekend. Jason and I are in charge, along with our awesome committee. We had a yummy breakfast and then we had Santa join us. We had a place for him to sit and all the kids were able to take a turn sitting on his lap. Last year, Bjorn was still a little nervous around Santa, but this year he wasn't shy at all. Isaac wasn't sure what to think, but he didn't cry.