Aden making his Grandma and Grandpa's Christmas Reindeer cards

I do it all for the presents!

Aden's shirt was given to him by his Aunt Chris. It says "I do it all for the presents!" He is so cute. He has been climbing in his toy box all the time but then wines because he doesn't know how to get out.

Merry Christmas!

One of my favorite things to do is decorate for Christmas. Well I am an interior designer/decorator and Christmas is my favorite holiday. If I ever go into the field to work I would like to be a commercial Christmas decorator in malls and for individual window displays. I think that would be so much fun!

Eric and I have been studying Christmas Tree decorating and this is my tree before...

And after.... I decided to do a more professional look then homemade look with family ornaments this year. I hung my ornaments around the house in other places to enjoy them. All the presents under the tree are for Aden.... ;) We didn't put in the bottom insert of the tree and placed it on the Armoire so Aden couldn't reach it.

I want to make Aden a stocking to match these. If anyone knows where I can get the best priced corduroy please let me know because it is hard to find.

MERRY CHRISTMAS- May we all feel and give our Saviors love a little more this month ;)

Thanksgiving

We had the stomach flu the week of Thanskgiving. Gratefully we were well enough to eat on Thanksgiving day but we were probably still contagious and didn't want to share the terrible flu with our Grandparents, nieces and nephews that were more prone to getting it. So we had our first Thanksgiving at home, just the three of us.

Eric baked our first bone-in ham and it was delicious and gone within in a couple days.

Aden loves spaghetti so he feasted on that and was full and content. :)
After naps we had a fun family game of basketball. Papa and Aden against Mama. Let's just say Aden made most the baskets and they won by a landslide. Later we played bowling with Aden's plastic pins and Mom beat the boys at that.
Aden was running back and forth laughing so hard. He would go throw the ball in and then clap and give high fives. It was awesome. For being sick we made the few moments of energy totally worth it and still had a great Thanksgiving. I'm glad my family had a great Thanksgiving even though we weren't able to come too.

Halloween

For Halloween Aden was Winnie the Pooh in a Honey pot and Eric and I were bumble bees. Since Eric didn't want to go full out this year I had shirts made that said Bee Costume...Eric forgot to wear his for the picture....oh well ;)
I carved Tiger for our pumpkin carving contest. Eric carved a pirate and a Tetris game.
We invited Aden's Cousins over for a little Halloween play group. Tayven, Kyla and Aden
Aden was afraid of the pumpkin guts. It was kind of funny but sad. He started crying when I tried to put his hand in the pumpkin.
Aden helped me decorate our front yard (so to speak)

Life has been so fun around the Kowallis home lately. Aden is just such a bundle of joy. He has recently learned how to climb. He climbs on his zebra toy he got for his birthday and the couch. He says "Mom Mom" all the time and it just melts my heart. His Dad has one on one with him every night and chases him around our little apartment barking and Aden runs into his little fort laughing smiling.

We had a fun Halloween with a ward party, pumpkin carving, trick or treating and the Symphony Halloween concert at BYU-Idaho. We feel so lucky!

Aden turned 13 months on OCT 23rd

More fun family pics

A few of these were edited by Miriam and the rest were by me. She took all the pics and did a great job;)