November!

November was definitely an adventurous month for our family!
November 1st and 2nd was our official move to Boise! Here are some pics of our moving adventure!
Our home for a little over 3 years! I'm definitely going to miss this house!

We had to rent a 27ft UHaul for our move, and we still couldn't fit everything in it! 

So empty!

This is our new town home in Boise! It is quite a bit smaller, but we only plan on living here until August! One thing we have learned about Boise is that living/renting expenses cost a bit more! We were happy to have found this home! It is small, but it is NOT an apartment! Trying to keep all of our kiddos quiet in an apartment would have been impossible! Plus this place is 2 1/2 miles from Justin's work, and 4 blocks from Aydan's school! 

It took me/us all month of November to figure out how we wanted everything! It is such a small space that it was kind of tricky! We even had to store one of our sections of our couch in our garage because it couldn't fit in our living room!

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Something big in November was announcing to our family and friends that we were............ 

Some of you know the whole story, but basically it was a huge surprise for us! I say it was most surprised I've ever been, seeing how we were actively trying NOT to have more babies! Haha! We are super excited to be adding another "little pumpkin" and feel really blessed that God gave us another opportunity!

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The weekend of Traceon's 4th birthday my Dad, Jerri, and Step-Sister and her family came to visit for the weekend!

We went to the new Thor movie! The boy's were so excited!

During the weekend, we shopped, ate at PF Changs, played games, and celebrated our 4 year old!

Family on Traceon's birthday!

Audree's little girl, Maya!

Traceon was so excited for his birthday! He really wanted to have an Iron Man birthday, and went to the party store to help me pick out his decorations! 

Here he is opening his birthday presents!

Heck yeah! One of his presents was an Iron Man costume!

Trace even helped me with his cupcakes!

Our family on Traceon Parker's 4th birthday! 

He is such a special boy! We just love him, and can't wait to celebrate a life time of birthdays! 

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Aydan's new school put on a cute Thanksgiving Program! Aydan was so cute as a little Pilgrim!

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My sister Melanie (whom also lives in Boise) was gifted tickets to see the Zac Brown Band in concert at the Taco Bell Arena! I was super excited for her, until she invited ME to go with her, then I was ecstatic! 

We had such a fun girls night! We went out to eat at Barbacoa, then went off to the concert!

They did such a good job! It's always amazing to see all the different kids of musical talent! All these boy's played multiple instruments, and played them really well!

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We planned to go to Pinedale to my grandparents house for Thanksgiving/Christmas even before we new we were moving! Since our plans obviously changed, Justin couldn't come with us to Pinedale because of his new job! So the Sunday before Thanksgiving I decided to make a dinner for our family and some of our friends!

Here's Lincoln chowin on something in his high chair!

Here is Justin helping with the turkey!

I finally got to use my China dishes! They were handed down to me from my Great Grandmother, and I had never used them until this Thanksgiving! I was so excited, since they are, and always will be such a special heirloom! Plus they are gorgeous!

The food was delish, and I enjoyed preparing it all day!

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For the real Thanksgiving, we headed to Pinedale with Aunt Melanie! It is always so much fun going to my grandparents house! The boys always feel so special!

Grandma Rosemary had special treats for them to make!

Little Turkey cookies!

While we were there, we went and cut down Gma and Gpa a Christmas tree! 

Aydan was such a good helper!

We forgot snow boots, so we put plastic sacks over our shoes to protect them from getting all wet!

Gpa cutting the perfect tree down!

We brought it home, and immediately set it up to decorate!  Our plan while in Pinedale was to celebrate Christmas too!

Such a cute little face! Lincoln and his big beautiful blue eyes!

All ready for our "Christmas morning"!

Gpa is helping Lincoln with one of his new toys!

The boy's go cool new Superman hats!

And their very own sleeping bags!

I made my mom and grandma pretty wreaths!

We always have to go to the PAC while in Pinedale! All of the boys are fish!

We had a great weekend with our family, and enjoy are special memories together!

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Here are some cute pictures of Lincoln in the bath tub! Before we moved he was still taking baths up stairs in our kitchen sink, so having a "real bath" was really exciting for him!

Isn't he cute!?