Christmas Gifts

This year for Christmas I decided to make most of the gifts.  I absolutely love crafting so I thought it would be easy.  As I started, more things kept getting added to the list.  Some of them I can't list until after  Christmas but the ones I can, I will start adding to my 'Creativity' page.  You or your child may be on the receiving end of this gifts so please act surprised if you do all of a sudden get one!

Now this has nothing to do with Christmas gifts but it is totally awesome!  We found this soother in the Bass Pro Shop and couldn't resist.  It is good for a laugh!

Football!!!

Dylan and I have always been Stampeders fans.  When Natalie was born she got a jersey from my parents.  I have to admit that I didn't watch as much this year a I normally would because a little someone had other plans for me!  Anyways I thought this was pretty cool, or nerdy I guess, depends on how you look at it, so I had to post it.

Natalie absolutely loves to go 'Rock, rock' with grandpa.  She is totally relaxed here!  This was on the same day as the picture above.

With A Moo Here

Nope this is not an advertisement just a little girl who absolutely loves cows.  She sits there and stares, usually at the back cover and very faintly you can hear a little 'mmmm'.  No that is not a 'mmmm' like it will taste good because we already all know that beef tastes delicious but it is a 'mmmm' sound that a cow makes.  It is absolutely adorable.  This photo and free advertisement (not saying it is) should earn a discount off of the next purchase!

Moose

This year my dad drew a moose tag.  This was exciting for all of us because he has been waiting for so long but most exciting for Dad.  I mean, he was the one that actually got to shoot the thing!!  We were not expecting him to get something the first day out or even that fast (morning still) so when I heard from mom that dad was home already, of course Natalie and I had to go check it out.  Dylan was working (ha ha)!  I bundled Natalie up and headed over.  Ya she doesn't understand but she definitely watched closely.  I didn't want to post any other of the pictures I had just because, well dad was skinning it while we were there!  :)  Your welcome!!

December 1st = Go Time

Dylan has a strict 'no decorating and no christmas lights until December 1st' policy.  I can put up the lights outside but I can't turn them on until December 1st.  So come the beginning of the month I was excited to decorate that day!  This event is almost countdown worthy.  But instead, Dylan came home early from work because he has been sick all week.  So I figured, he could watch Natalie for the 30 minutes before nap time and I took off into town for groceries.  By the time I got back it was too late to start and we all needed to eat yet.  So we postponed it for a day.  Here are a few pictures from decorating.  While we set up the tree Natalie watched Backyardigans and then joined us for the decorating part.  I am not sure she quite understood why there was this tree where she usually plays.  We gave her one 'Christmas ball' to play with and she held onto it the entire night.  Now it has been lost into the dark corners of somewhere.  She decided to share with the cat, now who knows where it may be!  You may be wondering if she plays with the tree.  Not yet!  But the cat has many various items thrown at her to get her away from the tree.  We can grab something and throw it faster than we can get up and chase it.  Eight out of ten times we miss the cat but it lands close enough to give her a good scare!  Don't worry, if Natalie starts playing with things, we are not going to throw things at her!!