Sanford Christmas

We spent Christmas Eve with the fam-- we played in the snow, ate lots of good food and opened presents. It really felt like Christmas.

The Living Nativity

We spent our Saturday afternoon at a
live version of the nativity.
It was amazing-- it really was put together so well. We got to walk around to different stations and see parts of the nativity story acted out. They had a Bethlehem market street set up, and lots of animals to see too (including camels! We had never seen camels before in real life.. they're huge!).
It was perfect for the kids to visualize the story. The girls were so excited to find baby Jesus.

I think this will become a family tradition.
It was so nice to focus on the true meaning of this Christmas season.

Pretty Princesses

Halloween

The cousins had a blast trick-or-treating together. 

It didn't take Belle and Bella long before they caught on to what it was all about.

 We went to some serious decked out houses. 

We also took the girls through a family friendly haunted house. It really wasn't scary, it was done well. I may have jumped at a couple parts though.. and Oakley screamed bloody murder in my ear the whole time. 

Trevor didn't want Bella to be scared of the big spiders, so he told her to say hi to them.. and so the whole time she was all nervous but would say "Hiii Spider" in a really timid voice. Then afterwards she just kept saying "I saw scary spider. Scary spider!" in a deep voice to everyone she saw.

It was such a fun Halloween!

Halloween Cruise

We went on the halloween cruise down the Provo River with the fam.

The cousins played ring-around-the-rosie (all snug in their life jackets) while we waited for our "boat".

The girls loved the canoe ride.. the pirate steering us, the pretty lights, and of course all the carved pumpkins along the river. They have hundreds of lit pumpkins to see.

The girls were so excited to meet a real pirate too! Our favorite part was when a pirate swung from a rope above our canoe. We had so much fun.