Thanksgiving and Wiest Family Christmas

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I love the feeling of knowing that the holiday season has arrived, the food and the anticipation of Christmas... and the food. We spent Thanksgiving day with my family and had a great time seeing family that we don't get to see very often.
My mom and dad slaved away in the kitchen and helped prepare a wonderful meal- thanks parents!!

My mom has beautiful Xmas decorations up; 3 weeks before Thanksgiving :)

My cousins Caitlin, Daniel and the "black cousins." When my sister, McCall was little, she would ask my mom every year if our "black cousins" were coming to Thanksgiving- haha - to eliminate confusion, their dad is from Pakistan and married my dad's sister. We love that story about my sister b/c she got confused about their ethnicity and couldn't remember their names.. not because it's really innapropriate to call anyone your "black cousins....."

Grandma surprised us this year, inviting Santa to our party- I think the Santa idea was more for Grams than anyone else.... :)

Aubree didn't freak out while Santa held her- she loved his beard.

Saturday, we spent the day with the Wiest's. My mother-in-law and Ellie are going to be in Ohio for the holidays because Miss Jenny is going to have a baby in the next couple weeks (hurray for babies at Christmas haha), so Juli wanted to celebrate Christmas early since we were all in town. We had so much fun opening presents - I got my most favorite thing in the world.. Natural White Cheddar Puff Cheetos. Don't make fun of me, they're freaking amazing. We had more delicious food and had a great time with family.

I think that's what we love most about the holidays.. and Cheetos.

What's new...

So I did a post yesterday and low and behold, I did it wrong. And of course it took me forever to figure it out anyways... this one better work... and I tried to copy/paste what I already had and that didn't work either. Whatever. Anyways, here are a few pictures (still trying to figure out how to upload them where I want; I promise I'm not dumb...?) And I'm trying to figure out what kind of blogger I want to be haha- so until then, my posts will look more like office documents.

First picture is Matt on his sweet new bike. Obviously, after becoming new parents, buying a bike is a very logical thing to do. He sold his Honda and thought this was the greatest idea he has ever had. It is actually really fun to ride and after I married Matt I had to come to terms with the fact that I married his lifestyle as well! At least he's rad.

Aubree is doing so great! She has such a personality- she's so smiley but extremely dramatic and tempermental and does not like being inconvenienced (... totally got that from Matt...) She loves looking at herself in the mirror, looking at books, drinking out of straws, not crawling but scooting around just like her dad did, playing with everything she's not supposed too, and clapping her hands when she's excited. We can't get enough of her; she's our little buddy:)

We have a lot to be thankful for this season and are so excited to celebrate this time of year as new parents and with the little one! Happy Thanksgiving!

And so it begins...

It happened... I made a blog. I'm really good at eating my words, so obviously making a blog after I said I would never is only natural. It's going to be private, so leave me your e-mail if you want to view our rad life :)