More Lylah Time!!

Here are all of my new Lylah pictures.  

This is Lylah holding up her bottle all by herself.

Mommy and Grandma doing her hair.

Cute hats!

Grandma made this fuzzy hat.

Smiley Lylah.

Lylah in her Bumba, no wait, Rhumba, no that's not it.  What is that thing called again??

Cameron loves his niece!

Cameron and Lylah playing.

Lylah in her bouncer.

Lylah after bath time.

Bright eyes!

Oh The Humanities!

Cameron and I both had to do the same project for our Humanities class, several years apart of course!  I did mine in 2010 and Cameron did his this year.  I just thought it would be fun to post the pictures.

This picture was actually painted by a relative of a friend.  Kind of interesting.

This picture is seriously so huge!

This picture is interesting.  Cameron has a cute look on his face.

Cameron was attempting to take a picture of himself.

This is such a cool...Sculpture?  

The person who did this sculpture has quite a few different one around the area, including in front of the IF library.

The point of this project is to find five different types of artwork and take pictures of them.  Then you have to write up a report about them.  It really gives you an appreciation of the different mediums of art.  

Other than that, nothing new really going on over here.  

I love reading all of your blogs and hope that you are having a great week.  

Courtney

Christmas, Christmas Activities Etc.

So, since I'm super behind I am kind of combining several posts into one.  

Putting up the Christmas Tree

We lost one of the little prongs on our tree, so we had to jimmy-rig it to stand up.  

We lost one of the sticky-outy things (our tree only had 3).

We finally figured out the stand and Cameron started fluffing the branches.

Just sorting through the ornaments.

Our finished tree.  

Cameron and I were lucky enough to have two trees this year.  (Thanks to a clearance sale at Wal-Mart).

Cameron standing in front of our finished mini-tree.

The finished tree.

Cameron looks proud of his work.

 Decorating gingerbread houses at Heidi's house.

Cameron working very hard on his section of the house.  We watched the new Percy Jackson movie while decorating.  For some reason we thought that would be extra Christmass-y.  

 Christmas Day

We got to talk to Shane in Africa!  He had a bit of an accent, it was awesome!  

Everyone gathered around the laptop.

Later on, Jenni, Landon, Cameron and I played Just Dance.  

Landon chilling out after his turn.  

I felt like this Christmas season went way too fast, but it was still very nice.  I loved spending time with family and doing all of the Christmas activities.  I didn't take many pictures, but I also spent Christmas Eve over at Wendy's house.  It was a lot of fun.  I really need to try and take more pictures this next year.  Anyway, I hope that you had a great Christmas as well and that your new year has been amazing so far.  

Love,

Courtney

Thanksgiving

Needless to say, I am sohooooo behind on my blogging.  But, that's okay.  Here is my Thanksgiving post, for your reading pleasure.

This year we spent this holiday in Spokane and Coeur d'Alene with my parents.  First, we went to my Mom's house.  We had SO MUCH FUN!  Here are some of the fun things that we did:

Miranda and I gave Lylah a bath and decided to give ourselves all crazy hairdos.

Miranda multitasking.

Mom and I did a LOT of different crafts.  Here we are making snowflakes.

We also made these really cool bead ornaments.

This is our "gingerbread" house.

This shows pretty much all of the ornaments that we made.

Here are pictures of our actual Thanksgiving Dinner.

Cameron making cranberry sauce.

This is the yummy blueberry pie.  Cameron was responsible for the spill, in case you were wondering....

Yummy cranberry sauce.  

Happy Cameron 

Mom cooking away.

Jeremy setting the table.

Here is all of our food.  It was so yummy!!

I had such a fun time over there!  We also went Black Friday shopping together.  The Post Falls Wal-Mart wasn't very busy at all, so we made out like bandits.  Afterwards, we helped Mom set up her new TV.  Then we had to leave.  That is always the hardest part.

Then we headed over to Spokane to spend time with the Alder side of the family.

This is all of us helping to set up the tree.

Cameron and Jonathan helping out.

Putting the lights up.

Grandpa and Lylah.

Love that tree!

We had a great time!  Miranda and I made some wreaths together.  We also watched the new Hunger Games movie.  It was so much fun to see everyone and spend time with them.