Christmas Fun

For those of you that don't know us very well, Christmas is our favorite time of year! We've been watching Christmas movies & listening to Christmas music since November. We try to do something "Christmas" at least twice a week. Here are pictures of a few of our outings.


Fashion Island with Robby, Andy & Allison

Fun times at Greg & Krystal's Ugly Christmas Sweater Party.

While we were decorating the Christmas tree, Cosmo found a box lid to squeeze is rolls into!

Decorating the Christmas Tree

Christmas tree lot - we loaded the tree up onto the car, tied it down and headed home. We had a little scare when we looked out the sunroof & didn't see the tree! Luckily it had only slid further back on the top of the car & hadn't fallen off completely!

Thanksgiving

The Stumps graciously hosted Thanksgiving at their house this year. Jake the kids & I spent the night Thanksgiving eve. The girls spent the day cooking and as you can see from the picture below - reading :) Andy & Allison joined us around lunch time to help prepare the food and enjoy the day! We had such a great couple of days & look forward to having a Stump / Brown Thanksgiving again!

Mark & Mackenzie prepared eggs for breakfast :)

Sacramento

In November we went to stay with my sister Kris and her family in Sacramento. We had such a fun time with my family & look forward to going again next year!

Picture to the right is of my nieces & nephew, my brother & his wife Karla and my sister & her husband Kevin.

My sister & I took the kids bowling, while the guys were at a UFC fight.

Cosmo joined us on the trip & had fun with my sister's new puppy.

Movie Nights

October Movie Night: We watched "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Sleepy Hollow".

November Movie Night: We watched "Christmas Vacation" and "Elf". We had a great turn out with over 20 people!

We love hosting these movie nights & hope to have more soon!

Krystal Garza brought these great cupcakes!

We decorated the yard with spiderwebs for our October movie night.

I failed to take very many pictures at our November movie night - but we decorated an outdoor Christmas tree with old fashioned rainbow lights, Jake put up a strand of white lights around the bushes in the back and of course we had to break out the leg lamp as well! We enjoyed hot cocoa, egg nog & brandy, apple cider and other goodies :)

Pumpkin Patch - ok so I'm VERY behind!

In October we went to a local farm to pick out our pumpkins. The kids had a great time... they raced through the corn maze and in addition to picking their pumpkins - they were able to pick some fresh veggies that we roasted when we got home. It was a fun day!