It's Christmas Time!

I just love Christmas! And every year it gets harder and harder to wait to decorate for Christmas especially now that I have a house!

I used to be one of those people that waited till after Thanksgiving, but the last few years we have done it the week of Thanksgiving since Dustin is off for the week. 

This year we started decorating the Monday before, and didn't finish till Wednesday, because we ran out of lights again while putting them on the tree, we do this every year! Also this year we decided to do two trees, but what probably took the longest was deciding what ornaments I want on which tree, and I have figured I actually have enough ornaments for three trees, ha. 

It was is so fun seeing the kids get all excited. Peter took a nap during part of it, so when he woke up and saw all the lights he was so excited, it was adorable I never seen a child get so excited. So far he's been pretty good about the ornaments, there is just this one that I made that has needles and anytime I put it back on the tree he is after it, but the other ones he leaves alone, just the one that can be dangerous. 

The boys playing in the tree box.

Thomas was so good helping with the lights.

For the toy room tree I used ornaments my mom made years ago. I just love this tree for the sentimental reasons, and the ornaments are adorable.

It's so fun having our house all Christmas-y

Peter @ 10 Months

It's crazy to think that Peter is 10 months! I didn't really get an official ten month picture so this will have to do.

Peter at 10 Months:

This kid is cruising around and has stood on his own a few times

He's first word is mom, at least it's the only one that we recognize at this time

He communicates by pointing

He loves being outside

He loves food especially now that we are feeding him what we are eating

He loves to wrestle and cuddle

He loves playing with balls

He loves being part of the party

He loves to get into everything and anything

Harry Potter Party

Last weekend we had a Harry Potter party.

I've been wanting to do a party FOREVER! Like I have had chocolate frog molds, Harry Potter items, a secret pinterest board for a long time. Why I haven't done it before? Because, one, we have never had the space and, two, I've been wanting to do it on Harry's birthday, July 31st, but every year something is going on that day. And plus, I knew it was very nerdy and I didn't know who would want to come.

But my brother just had a themed Harry Potter birthday with all of my family in Utah and I was so sad to miss it (it looked so fun Brianna)! And Dustin and I talking about throwing a little get together to get to know some of our new ward members that Dustin just told me to do it, so we did! And my in-laws were so nice to help and let us do it at their house. 

So we made official Harry Potter invites with a balloon owl and invited our guests.

 

Then we ordered some cool Harry Potter items, one including the sorting hat, I loved this thing, I was very excited to get it.

Then I made the boys' costumes, I thought they looked adorable. Both kids wanted to be Harry, since Dustin and I were the bad guys we were hoping the kids would want to be evil characters as well, but they were determined, well, Oliver wanted to be Batman for a while, I had to convince him that Batman didn't belong in Harry Potter.

We didn't get a chance to take every ones pictures, but we had some pretty awesome costumes!

So after everyone came, we sorted families in houses, Dustin did a great job doing that. Then we played quidditch, had a trivia game- and one of the kids knew almost every answer, and I came up with some HARD questions. Then we had soup, rolls, poly juice potion, butter beer, and butter beer ice cream. 

Yes, it was very nerdy, but very fun. 

To give you an idea what the party was like and you want a good laugh see this video. Ok, it wasn't that nerdy.