It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

Happy Holidays!  I just love the Christmas Season, and having two cute kids and one handsome husband makes it about one million times better.  Logan is so excited this year, and wakes me up every morning wanting to open up another little door of his advent calendar.  This year he wants Santa to bring him "Talkie Talkies" and Mia just loves staring at the Christmas tree. :)  The next two weeks will be packed with cookie making, gift giving, and serving.  And then it's family time!  Woohoo!  No medical school for three. whole. weeks.  I don't know what I will do!  Here is some of what we have been up to so far:

In her free time, Mia works on her snake charming skills...

Logan copied his name all by himself.  I am one proud momma!

Beautiful, happy girl.

This is what happens when I ask Logan to wash his hands before dinner....

He told me that he just wanted to be Santa Clause.

It snowed!  And hasn't since.  Which I am totally fine with.  But, we did have lots of fun sledding and building snowmen.

Mia slept through our snow adventure.

Giving Frosty kisses

After she woke up I took her outside to get some snow shots.  She wasn't quite sure what to think. :)

I wanted a shot of her beautiful flowing hair, so I took off her beanie.  This is the look she gave me. :)

Logan pretending to be Iron Man.  If you look closely you can see the cheerio he stuck to the palm of his hand.  

Just because she's cute

Logan was playing in the dress up box, and came dancing into the living room like this.  I asked him what he was doing, and he told me that he was, " a mommy lizard" and that he needed to "exercise his five senses."  Then he shot me with his spiderwebs and ran out.  I guess I should just be glad he wasn't pretending to be a princess?

Logan helping make apple pie for Thanksgiving.  This is his castle.

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Logan's turkey apple.

Great Grandpa Poulsen and Mia

Logan and Aunt Kassi in the back of Grandpa's truck getting our Christmas Tree.  Grandma gave him a candy cane...

Our cute mini Christmas tree!

Mia helping decorate...

Logan decorating

One corner, about Logan height, was very decorated. :)

We checked out the ZCMI candy windows.  So glad they are back!

Daddy got to come with us!

Then we walked on over to temple square to check out the lights.

Mia and the lights

Us :)

She won't technically be 5 months for two more days, but Ryley was home to control the boy the other day, so I took some pictures then.  

Love this lady

Mia rolls over!  A lot.  I have it on video somewhere... 

Logan playing the fishing game at the Festival of Trees

No one can make this little girl laugh like her brother can.

Mia's first kind of solid-food dinner.  She did so well!  

A Birthday, Halloween, and Family Fun

Oh October.  My favorite time of year, but also my most exhausting. :)  I taught Preschool, threw two different parties, Logan turned three, Ry finished up his Pediatrics rotation, and Mia had her very first Halloween!  Here comes a picture overload...

Logan got invited to another little boy's birthday at Kangaroo Zoo.  It is basically a giant gym filled with giant blow up toys.  Logan was in heaven. :)

I had Logan write Thank You cards to all his friends for the gifts they gave him at his party.  He drew his very first person!  I loved it so much, I claimed this card for myself, and made him draw another. :)

The Logan drew a raindrop, and loved it so much, he claimed it for himself.  We drew a lot of Thank You cards that afternoon....

Logan's Birthday Cake

Thank you Uncle Chad, Aunt Chelsey, and Mable for the awesome Camo sleeping bag!  Logan has been sleeping in it since he opened it. :)

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Enz for the fun animal magnets!   Logan loves making up stories with them.

This was taken right as he opened it... Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Poulsen, Kassi, Cammi, and Aydan for the way cool Lightning McQueen helmet and bell!

And "Squishies" of course!

Happy Birthday to my big 3 year old!  I can't believe it! 

Boo at the Zoo

Mia wasn't impressed. :) 

This kid loves his Doritos...

Little sick kiddos

They are pretty cute though!

Logan was very nervous about any sort of downhill at all.  

Such a cute bike rider.

And pumpkin carver!

Mia liked playing with the goop

We never did get these lit....

Logan's Halloween Party at Preschool.  We forgot his costume, so he borrowed a skeleton costume from a friend.  

Please forgive the nakedness.  It's just too cute.

This chunky little girl thinks her brother is hilarious

How many dimples can you count? ;)

Halloween Dinner.  A watermelon brain and a calzone snake.   Logan was so grossed out he refused to eat any of it.   Even though he helped me make it. 

I asked Logan if he was my knight in shining armor.  He told me no.  Apparently, he is Lira's knight in shining armor.  I've already been replaced.  

Mia trick or treating.  She wasn't a fan of her beautiful blonde wig.

King, Queen, Knight, and Princess

Handsome Knight

Trying out her wig

Beautiful Princess

Love that Face

I love these guys

On our walk tonight we stopped in a cute little field.

I love how Mia gets this look every time we place her in Logan's arms.  She has good reason to.  Right after this picture was taken, Logan dumped her onto the ground and took off.