Happy Birthday

We had a little birthday party for Lexi with Nate's family. His sister and her kids were still in town from Christmas so they were able to come as well. Lexi loves anytime she can spend with her grandparents, aunts, uncles and her cousins.

Lexi was given some adorable clothes, books and toys from her Grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Lexi absolutely adores her older cousins and loves it anytime that they give her any attention. It was a lot of fun having Nate's sister Julia and her family in Colorado for a while.

Lexi didn't know what to think about the candle and everyone singing to her...
but really enjoyed the frosting and cup cake.

Christmas

We had a very fun Christmas. We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning as a family. We went over to Nate's parents house for a delicious Christmas dinner on Christmas night. I made a gingerbread house earlier in the week so we decorated that on Christmas Eve. On Christmas morning Lexi had a lot of fun with the toys she was given.

Good Times

Last night was the first Sunday night in a while that we didn't need to go anywhere or do anything and it was so fun! We had a quiet dinner and enjoyed each others company. We turned on the fire place and the Christmas tree lights and then I beat Nate in Disney Scene It.

Nate and my sister Natalie taught Lexi to pretend she finds food from the ground and eat it. She has taken this a step further and loves to pretend to feed the chair, the wall, and as in the picture above her baby.

Preparations for Christmas

Last Saturday our family headed over to Nate's sisters house to make Christmas cookies with some of his family members. We had so much fun. Lexi loves any minute she can spend with her cousins Riley and Conner. Lexi and Riley get a long really well and played most of the morning together; while Conner and I made chocolate covered pretzels, a first for both of us. While we were eating lunch Conner started falling asleep in his chair and asked if he could take a nap. While he was napping we finished up and headed out. We later found out as we were walking to our cars he was looking out his window crying and asked his mom if we were going to come back.