Time for Tea

Thanksgiving to Christmas

Thanksgiving was a great little break. We headed to Washington with the Brinton's to stay with Seth's Aunt Melinda & Uncle Craig. We've spent the last five Thanksgivings away from family, so it was a nice change this year. Melinda made an amazing feast and I learned a lot while helping her prepare. But I have to admit that Raegan got the best helper award. I think she asked Melinda "how can I help?" about a hundred times. Shes the best. 

Portland Zoo lights...

Raegan had her Christmas dance recital on Friday. She cracks me up. The first thing she said when she finished her dance was "mom can I have a cookie now?" ...Uh sure honey, go grab a cookie:) Totally unfazed to being on stage in front of a bunch of people clapping and cheering.

Best weekend

I have been totally spoiled for the past week. It started last Wednesday with an awesome Feist concert with Seth. It was kind of last minute, but was so worth it. 

 On Saturday Raegan and I went to Pinkalicious the musical (unless you have a little girl you probably have know idea what this is ha)! It was darling. Raegan loved it. I've never seen so much pink in my life.

Then there was girls night. This was my first time leaving Seth and the girls over night. I have to admit, at first I was feeling a little homesick or something. It was weird not being able to tuck the girls in bed and check on them, but at the same time it was good. 

We started our evening eating at the most amazing restaurant called Departure. It was awesome. The food was so, so good.  

After dinner we made a little stop at Trader Jo's for some treats, then headed to Hotel Lucia where we had no end of polish and chocolate. We talked till about....mmmm 3am. Definitely the latest I've stayed up in years. It was so nice to be with friends and feel recharged again. I loved coming home to my family waiting to tell me all about their night and the fun they had with dad, which included Seth wining an ipad 2...yep that's right!

So basically I partied all weekend and woke up Sunday totally sick. Jane and I had sore throats, stuffy noses and hearty coughs. After all that, we've spent the last three days recovering at home. But it was worth it:)

Today's craft: Paper Crowns

Let the Christmas music begin...

Halloween is over. I'm trying not to over look Thanksgiving (or my b-day) but I just love Christmas so much! I need two months of Christmas music. One isn't quite enough.

Happy Halloween~

Two flower fairies...

and Maleficent!....

good job on the carving skillz sethro:) xo

Family Pics

Having family pictures done is seriously a lot of work. Keeping everyone dressed and clean and happy is almost impossible. The below picture was the best family pic we could get. Jane was all over the place & it  was randomly super hot that day so we were all sweating to death. But Katie (the photographer) was super up beat and helpful with keeping the girls happy and distracted. I guess its a good depiction of what our family is right now. Happy and busy:)

Our Saturday Outing

Halloween crafts

Feeling like fall~

camera happy

All of the following pictures were taken by little miss Rae. Most of the pictures she takes are of her own feet, furniture around the house or leaves on the front door step, but I have to give her credit because she has taken a few really good ones. 

After Raegan took this picture of Spencer she told him to check his blog! haha!

                            Her Papa and Uncle Garrett

First day

Today was Raegans first day of  preschool. It kind of breaks my heart just a little bit. Its mostly fun and exciting because she is so excited, but on the other hand there is something in my heart that doesn't want to believe my baby girl is old enough to do this.

Raegan ALWAYS wants to do a "silly" picture, and of course I wouldn't deny her that:)

 I sat her at her desk and the first thing she did was look over to the girl next to her and say "Hi friend whats your name?" Precious.