Brynn's First Thanksgiving!

This years Thanksgiving was one for the books. It was Brynn's first Thanksgiving! We had a smaller crowd this year. Usually we have about 20 people and this year we were missing my sister, Connor, Jeff, and my cousin Brad. Thanksgiving Day started out like it usually does with football and family... We had an amazing meal that concluded of the usual, turkey, mashed potatoes, corn, stuffing, rolls... and I made my first ever Pumpkin Pie & Chocolate Banana Cream Pie! They were a huge hit and even my dad who doesn't like coconut, loved that pie! I am sure I will be the pie maker for Thanksgiving going forward. They are really not hard at all to make and SO much better than store bought or frozen. As the day went on... the beer was flowing in the family, and for me, so was the bottle of wine! My mom, aunt, cousin and I maybe had one too many cocktails and ended up Christmas caroling to some of my mom's neighbors... yeah, people probably thought we were NUTS. (Which we kind of are!) but we had so much fun just walking my moms neighborhood, practicing our song and singing to random neighbors.

As far as Brynlee goes, she LOVED mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes. And I think the sweet potatoes gave her a little sugar rush... haha!

This year, I am SO extremely thankful for my baby girl, my amazing husband, my family the things we were able to do this year, like go on vacations, build a house and much more! And my amazing friends. You know who you are!

Here are some pictures of our fun holiday! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Yummm, someone liked their sweet potatoes!!!

Thanksgiving 2011... Brynlee noshing on some mashed potatoes!

Gorgeous baby girl in her cute sweater dress!

Love her!

Thankful for you baby girl, you make my world GO ROUND!

Brynlee meets Santa...

This weekend we got together with a mommy group that I started on Facebook to meet Santa. I started this group about 5 months ago with just 15 girlfriends, I told them to invite people they knew with kids and it has somehow grown to over 185 members! Crazy, right?!

Well anyways, one of the girls on there put together this amazing event. She knew somebody who was a retired vet that dressed up as Santa! She decided $10 was a fair amount to take your OWN pictures with Santa, at a lovely park here in Gilbert. It was an amazing idea, we raised over $340 for an Angel family, and also had tons of canned goods and clothes donated. Thanks again Karen, for putting this together!

As for Brynlee meeting Santa... she did surprisingly, GREAT! She didnt cry at all. Just had a very serious look on her face then entire time and would just stare at him like who the heck is this guy?! She really did good! I was proud of my lil munchkin. She was one of the few, who didnt happen to scream her head off. Most babies do though, so I get it :) My little one on the other hand, is just as curious as ever! Here are my favorite outtakes!

Trying to figure him out :)

She loved the teddy bear that Santa gave her!

So cute. She liked him!

Waiting in line to meet Santa

Family Pictures

We had such a great time taking our family pictures! Our photographer was Mary Lessig and you can check out her blog at http://marylessigphoto1.blogspot.com. She is an amazing photographer. We took our pictures at The Groves. It was actually a pistachio grove! So neat and totally not Arizona! I had one friend ask if we went up north because it looked like we were in the woods... totally the look we were going for, success! 

Enjoy :)