November

Cuties after church

Nolan's favorite part about going to the eye doctor is the coin they give him for the machine in the lobby. He's been collecting these little diamonds and hopes every time he'll get a color he doesn't already have.

My old manager, Ojae, made the boys these wooden lightsabers. How sweet and cool is that?!

The boys love working on puzzles! They've been loving the little 12 piece scripture ones from Deseret Book (although N is ready to upgrade to bigger ones).

Sooo...dad found a BYU stadium and animals of America 100 piece puzzles at Costco and Nolan has been doing so well with them! I'm thrilled with how long he'll sit and work on them. The only thing we need to work on is he keeps asking us for help when we know he can do it. Plus we want him to know that he can do hard things and get better if he just keeps trying. Same for Branson too!

DONE!

Our cute ward friend and babysitter, Lauren Osborne, was the lead in Jordan High Schools production of Guys and Dolls so I took a cute date to go see her! They had $1 snacks so I let Nolan pick out two things so he was pretty excited (he chose Pringles and Red Vines in case you're wondering). I thought for sure he'd only last maybe half the show, but at intermission he insisted he wanted to stay! I'm not sure if it was the play or just getting some one on one time with mom, but either way (and especially the latter) I was happy. He is such a cute and fun date! At one point in the show Lauren kissed the male lead and Nolan looked at me and went, "blech!!" haha.

Sometimes I can't get over how handsome this boy is, bed head and all.

I picked up a copy of the game Sleeping Queens because I saw it on a list of awesome games. It says it's for ages 8+ but Nolan plays it like a pro and LOVES it! He's hilarious with his smack talk. He always says things like, "ohhh, my cards are awwwweeesome!", "We have to beat grandpa!" (or whoever has the most queens), "I don't think so!" or "Nice try!" (whenever he blocks an attempt to steal one of his queens). He's not the best loser and insists on playing until he can end on a winning note. We're working on that.

Branson loves playing with this guys in the pantry. Not sure why, but it's pretty cute (until he swipes snacks before dinner that is).

I'm SO excited for Christmas in our new neighborhood! The previous owners of our house left up their Christmas lights and technically, per the HOA, we were supposed to take them down by May, but we didn't and it was pretty awesome to just have to plug them in and walla!

Giving our sitter Elli her birthday presents! Her birthday is Nov 29, one day after Branson's so that was fun.

My friend/coworker Dan got the boys these lightsaber popsicle makers and the boys love them (although we've never actually made popsicles with them haha, they just like to use them to fight). So kind of Dan!

We love having Aunt Mallory here in Utah for a few months!