Happy Thanksgiving!

We had such a great Thanksgiving. My mom came down last Saturday and then my dad and Emily came on Wednesday. We cooked all day Wednesday and Thursday and enjoyed the fruits of our labors.


Kirsten enjoying her "pie". We stole this idea from Family Fun for the kids.


And I was so proud that my pie actually looked like the picture (because usually when I try to copy something I see in a magazine or a blog it looks nothing like it and I get really frustrated and want to cry because I've wasted all my time making something that's supposed to look cute and just looks ridiculous...).


Colton has been waking up lately at like 2 o'clock in the morning and playing in his room for a couple of hours. So he fell asleep during Thanksgiving dinner.


And here's an updated picture of Max. He has gotten so big and chubby.


We loved being able to spend Thanksgiving with family and wished they all could have been there with us.

Catch Up

Before Max came along we had a really busy week that I didn't have the chance to blog about.
The Saturday before Max was born my friends, Danie and Michelle, threw a baby shower for me. I didn't get any pictures of the actual event, but it was so much fun and so nice of them to do it for me!
Here is a picture of the M for Max Michelle made for me, the baby clothes "bouquet", and the adorable diaper cake Danie made.


We decided we better go to at least one West Texas football game so we went to the Midland Lee vs. Abilene game which was on ESPN2 because Abilene is ranked in the top 10 in the nation. While that was fun, it also meant that by halftime Midland Lee was losing 49 to 7. At least we can say we've been.






The next night we went over to some of Jonathan's coworker's house for dinner. They are Venezuelan so they made us an authentic Venezuelan meal. It was delicious and so fun.


The next night Jonathan's work had an event at the race track in town.
We ate dinner.


And then tried to watch the racing...


but it was so loud we didn't last very long.


until we were sitting in the car watching.


The primary president in our ward (i'm the secretary so we talk often) is from Ohio. She moved here about 30 years ago and has never left. One day when I was complaining about how ugly it is here she told me you learn to find different kinds of beauty here in West Texas. I will say this is one thing I have come to appreciate, the West Texas sky.


That night I went into labor. So I guess it's a good thing we fit that all in before he came.

Halloween

We carved pumpkins...




Napped


Ate candy




And tried to scare our friends

Some friends came over on Halloween night and so Jonathan was going to run around the house and scare them when they got here. Kirsten's response to that was, "They're already going to be scared because I put boo on the door."