'Tis the Season.... to be a Terrible Blogger

Brace yourself... due to the tremendous amount of time between this blog and my last there will be a ton of pictures in this post! I will try to keep them as organized as I can, but no promises! Hope you are all having a fabulous holiday season filled with Family and Love! Don't forget the reason for the season!

While my dad was here visiting we went downtown one evening so he could get some photos! Here are a few of those...

 Here are some pictures from our Thanksgiving Day and the decorations I put up shortly after :)

Brooke, Me, and Blake

In early December I was so blessed to be able to take a trip to Oregon to visit some of my family! It was so much fun! I was absolutely thrilled to be able to spend a week with my family! Here are some pictures from that week...

Picture of Mt Hood from the plane

Picture of the Mts over the clouds

My mom's dog Houdini

Do you see the kitten in the tree?

Christmas tree that me, mom, and Dannah decorated

Peppermint Brownies!!

Sleepy puppy

Dannah's new kitten Paisley

Me and Dannah

At Dannah's Winter Concert

Dini with his new Christmas toy

Christmas Cookies!

While I was visiting we had a baking day! So much fun!

Frosty morning

More Christmas Cookies

Cameron and Dannah decorating cookies!

Cute Kitten

A tray we took to a Christmas party!

Me and Mom! Love her!

Blake and I decided to send out Christmas cards this year! Thanks to an awesome website and and awesome photographer (my dad) they turned out pretty good!

Ok, you all knew this was coming... Here are some new pictures of Chinook! :)

With his penguin! Lol

With Santa!

With his Christmas toys!

At 5 months!

So this is Chinook's new thing.... he'll walk by the couch and just plop his butt on it. Just his butt. The other day he did it and ended up sitting on Blake's arm! Haha. He's so weird sometimes!

Every year in East Peoria there is was is known as "The Festival of Lights." Dawn (MIL) and Brooke (SIL) took me with them this year and it was so cool! I really enjoyed it!

Me and one of my friends had a Christmas Baking "Extravaganza!" It was so much fun and we made some pretty delicious desserts!

My Mom and Sister sent me flowers for my birthday! :)

Out for my Birthday!

Brooke and Nick

The after-party. Lol

December has been a crazy month so far! I can't wait to see what the rest of it will hold!