Fairies and Football

At the beginning of November, I was excited to take down Halloween decorations.
I bought and made a few fall/ Thanksgiving decor this year.
I love decorating our home for the holidays.

A selfie of me and Sean.

November 2nd was Ty's half birthday. He turned 18 months old.

Although, I had been sneaking Ty in nursery for weeks, here's him on his first official day in nursery.

Sean took the kids up the canyon by our house for a walk one afternoon.

They found a play ground up the trail.

I bought a cell phone tripod with blue tooth remote.
So I started attempting to take more family pictures.
Here we are one Sunday before church.

Sean took the kids to the dollar theater one night.
He took these pictures on the walk from the car to the theather.

We saw this giant dinosaur statue while driving home one night.

We had several well check ups for the kids. I wish I could remember their stats.

Ever since Ruby started preschool,

I've taken a picture of her every time she has school, right before she leaves.

Here's a few of the ones I took in November.

Ty and Eli both love watching Mighty Machines and the Twenty Trucks YouTube channel.

Those boys love anything with wheels!

We officially enter hot chocolate season.

After I sprained my foot in October, we taught Ty how to go up and down the stairs.
He loves it!

Avery still continues to be Ty's second mother. She can't get enough of her baby brother.

Avery loves to be warm.
Here she is one night all wrapped up in fleece blankets and my dad's old fleece jacket.
She loves wearing her grandpa's clothes.

And here's Avery in one of my dad's old Hawaiian shirts.
She's coloring a picture of a dog in a Hawaiian shirt.
She said that if Grandpa were a dog, he'd be this one.

Here's the kids playing outside with friends one beautiful afternoon.

I miss those days. I love the times of year when we can be outside enjoying our yard.

A friend gave me a ton of old magazines and the girls were so excited to make collages.

Here's another day when the three Brady kids came over to play.

One night I took Lexi and Avery to get their hair cut.
Lexi got several inches cut off and Avery just barely got a trim.
Ruby tagged along and I took all the girls out for ice cream too.

Here's Lexi showing off her new hair cut.

Whenever my kitchen looks this clean, I like to document it.

Here's some pictures of Miss Ruby playing independently in the afternoons.

I love watching my kids use their imaginations.

My three older kids all wanted to participate in the Reflections Program.
This year's theme was Hero's Among Us.
They all wanted to paint canvas pictures.
Lexi painted her parents.

Avery painted herself with two of her friends.

And Eli painted his dad.

All three won awards and advanced onto regions.

Saturday morning snuggles.

One Saturday morning we headed down to Provo to watching the women's volleyball team.

Michelle and Justin met us there with their kids.

Every time our kids say goodbye they have what they call a "Huggie Hug."
Basically they hug each other for as long as possible while chanting "Huggie Hug" over and over.

On the way home we went to Costco and got lunch and a new Christmas tree.

I've been eyeballing the fake trees at Costco for years. I'm so excited to finally have a nice tree.

We set up our tree and made it a Gratitude Tree.

I cut out paper leaves and for Family Home Evening, we wrote on them things that we're grateful for.

We also bought the Christmas Village from Costco this year.
I've wanted one of those my whole life.
It fit perfectly on our bookshelf in our upstairs loft.

Here's some of Ruby's artwork. I love her people!

Here's a fairy that Lexi drew.

And a creative picture that Avery drew.

We got a dusting of snow.

My girls are great about unloading the dishwasher everyday.

But I finally decided to teach Lexi how to load it.

I got a Christmas present early. Sean got me this heat press and storage cart.

I got my hair cut and colored a little more red.

Morning snuggles with my boys.

And here's some post nap snuggles.

Avery got a pair of ear muffs and started wearing them nearly everyday.

We celebrated Sean's Half Birthday.

Here's Sean wearing one of the new pants that he got for his half birthday.

Ty continued to a little curious little man.
Here he discovered the dirt in the sliding glass door track.

He loves to sit on the back on the couch and play with the light switches and thermostat.

Ty fell off a chair and hit his nose on a hot wheel.
He cut his nose. At first I was worried that he'd need stitches. Thankfully he didn't.

Ty loves Eggos.

Ty loves sitting at the table playing with cars.

We finally gave Ty his first pickle. HE LOVED IT!
I don't think any of our babies have loved pickles as much as him.
He still asks for them all the time.

Ty discovered Avery's snow boots.

We got more snow.

Lexi made the first snowman of the season.

We bought a bunch of Christmas lights from Costco and put them up.

At the end of November, after Thanksgiving, we decorated our Christmas tree.
We only had one this year which made me sad. No fancy tree.
And we just did a tree in the front room. We figured it would be easier this way with Ty.

I got the weirdest package in the mail.
It was from China and I never ordered it and I had no clue what it was.
It turns out that my brother order this gag gift for me. It's supposed to go on the toilet.