Mia with Mrs. Claus

another pic with Santa

Ethel M. Chocolate Factory and cactus garden

Mia in front of the tree

Mia practicing for her Christmas sing along

opportunity village

my grandma Lil and mom at Opportunity Village. We got another

chance to spend time with my beautiful grandma!

grandma and I

Mia wanted to see Santa AGAIN, so we did and she loved

every second. She is really into Christmas this year. It is sooo much fun!

4 generations

Then we went to my mom's and got to make peanut

brittle, fudge, and popcorn cake with my grandma Lil!

and Aunt Brooke

As you can see, Mia really got into it. She loves to cook!

That's what she says she will be when she grows up, a chef.

We will see :)

After telling Rick she had "stage fright" when she saw Santa

in the mall last week and wouldn't go up to him, we made it

to Bass Pro Shop on Saturday so Mia could tell Santa what she

wanted and boy did she. She took about 5 minutes explaining all the

different car guys from the Disney Car movie, Chick Hicks, Carla Velosa, you name

it, he thought it was funny. He was also a very sarcastic Santa to Mrs. Claus but we

won't go into that since I print this out for Mia to read in the future. Let's just say Bass

Pro got a little phone call when we got home. Love this place, because they have fun stuff for

the kids, Santa letter station, games, and it's all FREE!!

Thanksgiving

We flew up to Buhl, Idaho to spend Thanksgiving at

my parent's house. It was quiet: just my parents and my grandma

Lil, but it was a great weekend away

Last year, there was a HUGE snow storm, but this year the

weather was beautiful, Mia was sad there wasn't any snow though :(

Grandpa drove and brought his razor, so Mia was very

excited to ride on it. She wanted my dad to go REALLY fast.

Thanksgiving Day- we put my grandma Lil on a shuttle bus from

Rexburg, Idaho so she could spend the weekend with us, Aunt

Debbie came to dinner too. We had a bee fly in right when we

were about to eat, it was funny, I wish we could have gotten it

on camera.

Day after Thanksgiving we drove to Sun Valley, Idaho to get the snow Mia

wanted.

It was fun until the wind came and then it was FREEZING!

Mia enjoyed throwing snowballs

and building a snowman

my grandma Lil and I- then we went downtown to the shops

and had lunch

We were very lucky to spend the time with Grandma Lil or

as Mia would call her, Grandma L, Mia had her trapped in the playroom

for hours, she LOVED playing with her grandma. We love her so much!

Rick and I even did some midnight Black Friday shopping in Twin which was

hard work, because we had to drive 30 minutes just to get there, but we ended

up finding what we wanted and besides a very large woman running into Rick's knee and then

saying some some explicit language, it wasn't too bad!! It was a quiet Thanksgiving without

all my sisters and cousins, but it was a relaxing one! Can't wait for Christmas :)