Happy Birthday Daddy!!!

We celebrated my sweethearts birthday just a couple days after Boston's. We gave him a knife he picked out at Cabella's and he got to get some bunnies as well. Ironic much?

I'm so thankful for this wonderful man in my life!! (Mush alert!) I truly can't put into words how thankful I am to get to be with this wonderful man forever. He really is the love of my life and I never knew I could still be so in love after almost 11 years of marriage. I'm so thankful for the great job my in-laws did of raising such a wonderful man! He is an amazing dad and his kids adore him! 

He is so incredibly ambitious and has taught me it's okay to dream big. He really does treat me like a queen. Happy Birthday Sweetheart!!!!!

This^^^^ kind of bunny was easier than wrapping the real thing.

Pres tagged along on Daddy's birthday date. She looks pretty happy about it, huh?

Birthday Selfie!

Happy 4th Birthday Boston

I can hardly believe my little guy is four already!! It seems like we just taught him to put up three fingers (which he had to do by using his other hand to help out. Can you say darling and so much like Grandma Paxman!) He is still my little Bossa-bossa!! He loves to snuggle and be sung to at night. His favorite songs are "Praise to the Man" and "We Thank Thee O God For a Prophet." He still loves lightening McQueen and Mack, but now loves to play with Legos and duplo and is quite good at creating different things. He pretty much likes to do whatever his big brother and sister are doing. He'll play "family" with Averie and "superheroes" with Easton. His favorite game to play is for me to say "ready set go" and for him to actually go when I say "set." He can play that over and over and gets such a kick out of it.

He still occasionally takes a nap and takes it as a personal insult is you don't snuggle him to sleep. He loves to make Preslie laugh and is super cute when he talks to her! He loves to be included in morning devotional and school, although he's going through a "I don't want to pray out loud" stage. When we recite the Articles if Faith, he always says the first and has it memorized perfectly.  

He's the ham of our family and always keeps us laughing. One night when we has the missionaries over there was a lull in the conversation.  He randomly declared "my mom hates bunnies." (I'm not the animal person like all the rest of the family is and was resistant to getting bunnies although I have since given in and we have two bunnies.) It was hilarious and we still laugh about it months later.
I love to hear him bear his testimony during family devotional. He's now able to say it all on his own. It's pretty darn cute when he gets the prophets mixed up and says that he knows President Monsen restored (although it usually sounds like destroyed) the church." I am so thankful to have this little guy as a part of our family and can't wait to see what kind of an amazing young man he will become. 

When I asked Boston who he wanted to have come to his party he said "Aunt Tiffany and her kids." So glad we have family close again to share fun times with!

Home for Christmas

We were blessed to be able to go "home" to Utah for Christmas this year. We had such a wonderful time. The drive was a loooong one, especially on the way back as the excitement of vacation and Christmas was gone. We hit snowy roads and storms both ways though the way home was by far worse. While we had a fantastic holiday, I must say that I think "traveling for the holidays" is overrated and sounds cooler than it really is. I told Landon that if we can help it, we're never traveling a long distance by car in the winter again. 

We spent half of our time in Utah with my in-laws and half with my parents. Unfortunately we all got sick so we did have to miss some of the fun parties and other things we had planned. Talk about not fair!! Certainly not what we expected our vacation to be, but we enjoyed lots of movies and snuggle time. 

It was fun to have Preslie meet aunts and uncles and great aunts and uncles and cousins and great grandparents that had yet to meet her. She was certainly plenty loved on and did really good giving everyone smiles. 

We tried to split our time evenly as best we could between our families. Each set of grandparents got to spend a part of Christmas Eve with them and watch the kids open presents on Christmas morning. They were well loved being the only grandkids!

These happy faces were at the beginning of the drive!

Stayed our first night in Hays, KS after a much late dinner at IHOP. Preslie even got a bath in the hotel room sink.

We were so thankful that Grandpa Watt was still with us and in good spirits and we were able to visit with him.

Castillo 4 Generations

It's a lot easier to do fun projects when there are less grand kids to help. The kids had a great time with Grandpa Paxman.

Our annual candy making with Grandma Paxman. 

Christmas morning right before we saw what Santa brought us.

Such a magical Christmas morning. Watching the fire while it's snowing outside!

My sleeping beauty. Had so much Christmas fun she couldn't even stay awake.

I got to see and visit with some friends from high school. It was so nice to catch up!

My hubby is HOT!!

Crazy Memphis Thanksgiving

My family, crazy as we are, thought it'd be a good idea to combine a house warming party and Thanksgiving.  Well Guess what!? We were right! (Not that I'm surprised! We ARE Paxmans after all.)

My sister and her family decided we made living in TN look soo fun that they just had to try it out too. The Mo-Mo's moved into their house the day before Thanksgiving and that also the day we (the Paxman and Castillo families) got there. Nathan and Jamie, my bro and sis-in-law drove from Texas and were there Thanskgiving morning. Annika and I did all the pies, started on the dressing and thawed the turkey a couple days before we went down to Memphis. It was chaotic, but oh so fun and a Thansgiving to be remembered for years to come. 

All the pies we made at my house and then transported to Memphis and the bread drying for dressing on my bed!

Black Friday!