Preparing For Christmas

We thought it would be fun to decorate the inside and outside of our house for Christmas because we can! I put up the lights on the outside which was a first for me and it made me appreciate my brother Loren's artistic ability that he used at home, his looked much better.
So you can see a little bit what it looks like at night.

Daddy's little girl.

Mama's little airplane. Dad, do you like the jacket? ;)

Great-Grandma Russell's wreath.

We bought a little tiny tree but discovered we had more ornaments than we thought (and heavier ones than we thought, our poor little tree). But we had fun listening to Christmas music and decorating our tree as a family.

The rest of our Christmas decorations (courtesy of Jennifer).

Busy Busy

Dad and Anne watching the very disappointing BYU vs U of U game. So sad, you can see it in Anne's expression :)
Our little doll.

Snuggling with her new teddy bear from Sheri.

We are very thankful we were able to spend Thanksgiving weekend with family. Both my sisters and parents and Zac's brother and sister-in-law were able to visit. We had a fun-packed house! Anne enjoyed meeting her uncles and aunts and Grandpa Hebe! :) Here's Anne with Auntie Jennifer.

Mam and her sleepy people.

Grandpa Hebe and Ona (as he likes to call Anne).

Auntie Michelley!

My bottle! Some new discoveries and milestones in the last couple weeks have been Anne's reaching abilities. She's starting to reach for objects and enjoys batting at her jungle gym. She also rolled over from her tummy to her back! She had a cheering audience for that one!

We don't have any pictures of Anne in her blessing dress and other fun pictures from the weekend, so if family could email us some of those we'll post them up here for everyone to see. Thanks!

Tagged

I guess this is a new found craze these days, but Emily tagged me and I love games, so here it is:

What is your husbands name? Zachary Edward Thatcher
How long have you been married? three years this last September and going strong!
How long did you date? about 2.5 years (which is a long time for provo time)
How old is he? eight years older than me! :)
Who eats sweets? more me (and I think I've passed that on to Anne) he likes more buttery foods
Who said I love you first? he said "I think I'm falling in love with you" just like in a movie, it was awesome
Who is taller? he is by about 11 inches, we think Anne is taking after her daddy (she's in the 97th percentile for heigth!)
Who can sing best? i think he would say me, but i love hearing him sing when a song comes on the radio that he likes, or when we're dancing and he sings to me
Who is smarter? we both have our strenghts, he does much better with the math and i do better with the english, we both like science and history
Who does laundry? me and Anne, up until we went to visit Zac's mom (about a year after we were married) I thought Zac really didn't know how to fold clothes, his Mom gave him away, but I still do it
Who pays the bills? i make sure they get paid, but he earns the money
Who sleeps on the right side? looking at the bed he does, it's the side with the alarm clock, i have a different kind of alarm clock, mine is much cuter
Who mows the lawn? I did the very first time and a couple times since, but then I got VERY pregnant, so Zac finished out the summer
Who cooks dinner? That's definitely both of us, Zac is an awesome cook and helps me out whenever I need it (it seems like Anne always needs to eat whever we do)
Who drives? when it's the three of us, Zac, i sit in the back seat with Anne helping her to realize her car seat is not the enemy
Who is first to admit they are wrong? both of us, i should more often though
Who kissed who first? he kissed me :)
Who asked who out first? we got set up on a blind date from our friends
Who wears the pants? we each contribute and have certain things we are more passionate about

Grandma Thatcher!

We had a great time last weekend with Grandma Thatcher! We stopped in the mall and took these pictures in one of those booths. Zac and I had never done that before, but it was a lot of fun! I'm sure we'll go back for more in the future. By the way if you're wondering what the heck Anne is wearing, it's her Green Bay Packers t-shirt because they were playing that day.

Anne had a relaxing time hanging out with her Grandma.

Anne is sporting her Carribean (sp?) dress from her Aunt Rhonda.

Anne discovered that she could make this cute sound while I was making this blog entry. She loved the attention that she got or just the cool new sound she could make that she kept making it for about 5 minutes straight.

Halloween and Other Fun Stuff

We had a fun Halloween and birthday weekend! Here's Zac doing the obvious. And Anne (top right corner of the picture) doing what she does best.When I tried to get Anne to hold a spoon to help carve the pumpkins she kept giving me the "What the heck are you doing Mom?" look that she's giving me in this picture. :)

Yes, I love Halloween, so we had a family theme in our costumes this year. Zac was Reeses Pieces, I was milk, and Anne was a little Hershey kiss. I had a lot of fun making the costumes.
At Zac's work they invited the families to come and go trick-or-treating around the office and Anne was all tuckered out from looking so dang cute in her little costume.
Our house on Halloween night. We were all decked out, even though we only had three sets of trick-or-treaters :( sad. But we had fun with the Ross's and watched Charlie Brown's Halloween movie.
Can you guess out of the following pumpkins, which one I carved and which one Zac carved. Funny how they show our personalities.

Multi-tasking.
Just some cute pics. This one is for all of you who gave me a hard time about not dressing her in pink. I actually like this shade of pink, just in moderation.

You kind of have to turn up the volume on your computers to enjoy this video, but it is of Anne making some cute noises while she is completely asleep. She carried on with this for about five minutes straight. This one is of Anne talking (well her version of it at this point anyways). This is one of our favorite things right now. She stares straight at us and talks when we talk to her. She also has a cute little giggle now, but I doubt we'd be able to catch that on film.

Auntie Rhonda!

We were lucky to have Aunt Rhonda come visit us for the weekend! We had great time!

A new fun development has been her being able to flip on her side. Strong girl!

Anne and I had a fun time this week going out with her new jogging stroller thanks to Grandma Thatcher! She was happy as long as I was jogging, not walking, so it looks like I have new trainer!

And this is what Mom and Dad have been up to when Anne falls asleep. And just a cool picture Zac took of a little critter in our front yard.

Happy Birthday Dad and Annie!

Sorry for the blurriness, but here's one of Zac's birthday presents from Annie. We had a fun night of watching football, eating pizza and celebrating one very cool person's birthday! :)

Because the labor took a litttttle longer than we thought, Anne was born on the 16th instead of the 15th, so Zac had a bithday buddy! Anne turned one month, I can't believe it's already been a month! This was one of her birthday presents, getting ready for the cold weather soon to come.

She's starting to fit into some of her bigger clothes, like this cute outfit from her Auntie Dawn.

We thought this outfit was pretty fun too :) (And very true)

We caught her in some cute poses.

More!

Goooooo cougars! Anne partakes in all of our football watching and is also an avid BYU and Packers fan. :)

Just a cutie.

We all went to the pumpkin patch to pick out this years' pumpkins. Anne wasn't too thrilled and slept through it all, but Mom and Dad had a fun time. Mom had never been to a pumpkin patch before which baffled Dad cause Halloween is one of Mom's favorite holidays.

She's definitely a smiler. She flashes us smiles all the time and has even laughed (we think) a couple times.