All White

Better a week and a half late, than never! We had a super duper fun All White White Elephant Party December 10th. Fun friends, fun outfits, and fun gifts. It was a whole lotta fun dipped in a whole lotta white.

Party prep. The transformation our house took...

So Ty and I got ourselves a nice new camera for Christmas and we set up a little photo op for our guests when they got there. Ty had set everything up and was practicing when a very willing model came down to help him...

Misfit loves having his picture taken. Isn't he the best?

He was a little perturbed when Rocco came to join the shoot.

But then they both decided to go ahead and take the cutest picture ever taken. To die for right?

And now for the guests! (Unfortunately neither Rocco or Misfit were invited)

Ty & Staci

Brett & Jill Bell

Marc & Ashley Bell (some of the most creative outfits of the night!!!)

Jordan & Rachel Williams

Jay & Haley Davis

Eric & Natalie Mealey

Kevin & Rachel Radebaugh (Kev's mom supplied his outfit. Ha)

Cory & Kelsey Sistrunk

Dustin & Lisa Vohs

Rich & Randi Patch

Brady & Lauren Jones

Eric & Megan Woodley

Jason & Amy Vonk

Casey & Chelsea Baugh

This is how Ty hosted the party. Very useful!

We had some great gifts show up for the exchange...some of which included--

A toy urinal (which was a hot commodity and switched between quite a few potty training parents)

The great shirt Ty found...and of course the recipients wife is pregnant :)

YES! A Chicken!

Jordan supplied this beauty...and in the corner of the below picture is Ashley's reaction when Marc opened it :)

Jason showing the hen some love! Don't worry the Mealey's gave it to a neighbor who was happy to add it to his selection of farm animals

And, my favorite, an exact replica of my house (to scale) made from graham crackers. Amazing. Must have taken Eric at least 3 months to make. If you have ever seen my house you'll notice all kinds of amazing details. (It got it's own photo shoot)

The backyard, complete with our firepit, seating, back deck, and trees. Awesome

And a few out takes...

Host boy

Host boy and girl

Thanks to everyone who came! We had a blast! Till next year...

In the Spirit...

Ready for Christmas!

We had a great Thanksgiving. Documented by absolutely no pictures. But great all the same. Now getting ready for a great and BUSY Christmas!

More to come...

H*WEEN

Costumes, Parties, Rocco-Monster

We had a great Halloween!

We had a Halloween party at our house for my side of the family a couple weeks early while one of my brothers and his family were in town. My parents took most of the pictures, so the only one I have is of Marc and Ashley and their Wonderland Family :)

The Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, Syd as Alice, and Krew as Tweedle Dee :)

A couple days before Halloween Ty and I went to a Halloween party at our friends house, and were able to put the Wonderland costumes to good use!!

All the girls at the party:

L-R Blakely, Jordan, Lisa, me, Lauren, Kylee

Brooke, Holly, Amy, Nat, Chelsey, Nicole

If only I had a picture of us with our Best Overall Costume trophy :)

Check out more fabulous costumes from the party here

The next night we went to another party at the Stevenson's. Rocco came to this one :)

Our little monster fam

Rocco-Monster

Misfit also had a matching costume that I'm so bummed I didn't get any pics of :(

Finally, on actual Halloween day, we went up and got some pics of the cousins on Ty's side in their costumes!

Rocco was so funny in his costume because he didn't mind at all he was wearing it! Hehe

On the other hand, Lola did mind that she was wearing hers. Rocco is trying to console her, but to no avail. And Haley had made her the cutest chicken costume ever!!!

Asher the Tiger! He didn't mind wearing his costume much either :)

All the Williams cousins! L-R Makayla the baby bee, Chloe the ladybug, Rocco-Monster, Asher the Tiger, and Lola the ANGRY chicken!! So cute :)

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!!!

Fall Attitude...

Is Grateful. I'm way behind on blogging, but here are a few things I'm so grateful for...among many this beautiful Fall.

Family Time

It's been so great spending time with Ty and Rocco. Walks, Playing, and even a trip to Lake Powell for Ty and me.

Friend Time

Rocco and his cute besties (Devro, Asher & Krew). Yay for little boys.

Baby Time

I love this little boy so much. I can't believe how lucky I am to spend every single day with him. He's the absolute best. And how cute is that little pumpkin that's just his size??

Home Time

I would be perfectly content never ever leaving my house--which come to think of it, is exactly what I did for pretty much 3 months after Rocco was born... Anyways. I absolutely love my house. Love love love it. Someday I'll actually post some good pictures of it, but this picture cracks me up every single time. At least three of our windows have these perfect shaped bird crash marks on them. Poor little birdies. They need to watch where they're going!

And...Congratulations to Landon, Alli, and Chloe on the arrival of precious little baby Makayla!

More pictures and events to come...