Christmas 2011

This year, we decided to open all the presents under the tree on Christmas Eve. Conor had a blast opening all his presents and seemed totally overwhelmed with all the goodies he got.

Then we made the reindeer a snack-oatmeal with sprinkles!




Also had to leave out a snack for Santa-brownies and milk.

This is what Santa left at our house.





Going through Conor's stocking-he got a recorder, a coloring book, a couple of movies and candy.

Chris and I also were spoiled this year. I got him an iPhone and he is building me a dining room table. We had a great Christmas! We headed to Utah the next day to make the rounds. We didn't do a very good job getting pictures of the trip. We spent 2 nights at the Park City condo with the McGhee family, then went to Roosevelt to divide the time between the rest of the family. We all ended up with a horrible stomach flu that spread crazy-fast. Then we went back to Park City for New Years. It was tiring but good to be able to see everyone!

McCormick train park

The weekend before Christmas (I'm behind, I know...)we took Conor to the McCormick-Stillman Train park in Scottsdale. They have an awesome light display for Christmas, complete with train rides through the lights, hot chocolate and train displays galore. Conor loved it.

Zoolights!

Sunday night (12/18) we went to Zoolights- it was awesome and Conor seemed to love it. Especially the giraffes... :)

Another trip to the ER...

So, Monday night (12/19), as Conor was getting ready for his bath, we were playing hide and chase in his room. He was running full speed away from me and smacked his head into the wooden rocking chair arm. His head immediately started gushing blood. I ran him downstairs and had Chris get a towel to put to his head to stop the bleeding. Once the bleeding slowed down we got a good look at the huge, gaping wound on his head and knew that it would need stiches. We took him to the Urgent Care first, but they sent us to the ER at Phoenix Children's hospital. They took very good care of him, even though we were there for 3 hours. He did really well considering... He ended up with 3 stiches. Amazingly it hasn't seemed to bother him since. This picture is of Conor as we finally got home around midnight.

Meeting Santa

A couple of weeks ago we saw Santa at the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall - at first, Conor was not sure about him, but since we were the only ones there we were able to hang out for a minute for Conor to get comfortable with him - the girls working the photos were awesome and got a great picture-

Park fun, lunch dates and cuteness...

Sunday we met Evelyn and her mommy Adrianne at the park for snacks and fun. It took them a little time to play together but once they did it was stinking cute.

The other day we headed up to Imagination Avenue, but it was closed. So we headed up a little further and hung out at Desert Ridge. This is us at lunch - my handsome lunch date!

This is just cuteness overload - sitting at Zipps watching football and waiting for food.

Halloween

The night before Halloween Chris, Ryker and I carved our pumpkins, while Conor painted his.



To start out our Halloween, we took Conor up to his Granny and Papa'a house to trick-or-treat. They took him to a couple of their neighbor's houses to trick-or-treat too.


Then we dressed up again that night and walked around our neighborhood to trick-or-treat. Conor didn't understand it at first, but he quickly got the hang of it. He ended up with a bucket-full of candy that he now asks for constantly... :)

We got Conor home just before it got dark. Chris and Ryker decided to dress up to sit on the front porch and scare little kids. It worked...

We had a great Halloween! Hope everyone else did too!