The First Snow of the Season

In November we got our first taste of snow for the year! The trees were so pretty with their light dusting of white!

Carter was still too new to take out in the cold, but Tristan took Ethan out and I watched from Ethan's bedroom window. Tristan taught Ethan about smelling the snow:
Since we didn't have a sled, Tristan got creative and took Ethan sledding down the small slopes in our parking lot on a garbage bag! Ethan had a blast!
They built Ethan's first-ever snowman. He talked about it for days afterward!
And, of course, we had to get out the beach toys to play with! Can you tell we just moved back from the South?

Ethan and Tristan both had a great time. The only downside was that it went away quickly and Ethan asked every day for at least a week for me to "get the snow" and to "play in the snow". I had a hard time getting him to understand that I wasn't in control of it! I was glad that he got a chance to enjoy it and got to get outside and burn off some of that 2-year-old-boy-energy!

November Pics

Carter turned 2 months old in November! We took some pics, of course!

Such a happy little man (most of the time)!
Since Tristan was going to be gone for Thanksgiving, we did an early Thanksgiving dinner with his family before he left. Here are the boys after dinner and baths and Grandma Bernard's.
Kisses for baby brother
Tristan took Ethan by to see my parents one day and Ethan had to play with the dump truck. One thing is for sure...he is ALL boy!
We also put up our tree before Thanksgiving since Tristan wasn't going to be back until the middle of December. We took our picture for our Christmas card then, too. So if you didn't get one this year, this is what it looked like. Sorry for those of you we missed. I just got too far behind and didn't update my addresses and well, had a 2 month old and a 2 year old that took up a lot of time. I hope to do better next year!
Although we waited to decorate the tree until Tristan got back, we decided to teach Ethan about putting ornaments on it that night.
Ethan trying it on his own
It's amazing how fast November flew by! We love the holiday season in our family and enjoy it even more now that we have children to share traditions with. We hope everyone else had a wonderful Thanksgiving and holiday season, too!

Carter's Blessing

With Tristan's work schedule we ended up blessing Carter the weekend of Ward Conference, so things were kind of crazy. The Stake President was there and ended up asking if we minded if he joined in, as well as our Bishop, so there was a rather large group. The blessing was beautiful and it was a wonderful day.

President Price, Rich Marlatt, Brother Meinke, Tristan & Carter, President Moss, Brother Brown (Bishop Mitchell couldn't make it for a pic)

Kelly came and was such a huge help with Ethan and Carter...we even ended up matching without planning it!
Tristan's family: Tennille, Desiree, Annette, Ethan, Tristan, Me & Carter
My family
Grandma & Grandpa Walker
We were so glad that Rich and Allisha could come as well (apparently Allisha got the pink memo, too!)
Grandma Bernard

Our sweet little man on his blessing day

All worn out!
It was a busy, great day. We are so blessed to have another sweet boy in our family!