Mr. and Mrs. Powell

So, Ryan has a SEVERE case of Stranger Danger.

Started when he was about 7 months old and has only gotten worse with age HA

I knew Santa could be rough given last years experience.

However, lately he has started to think Santa is pretty cool.

I was pleasantly surprised in our conversations this week with his response to these 3 questions I asked him each day,

"Are you excited to see Santa!?

Are you going to sit on his lap?

Are you going to tell him what you want for Christmas??"

He excitingly would say "YES!" to every question followed by "Santa nice, mommy"

( HAHA I clearly engrained in his head how "nice" Santa is )

He even woke up one morning and asked "Mommy, Santa lap today??"

I was beginning to think he had turned a new leaf.

We headed to "Kringles Corner" last Saturday night with high hopes of a happy 2 year old.

While we waited in line, Ryan couldn't get enough of the reindeer, trains, and Christmas Trees.

He watched as each child sat with Santa.
Aaron and I did our best to distract him when the screaming children got on board. HA

Santa even caught his eye and waved at him, Ryan waved back.

So many times he asked for a treat and I told him,

"If your a happy boy, as soon as you get off Santa's lap you can have a treat"

( Bribing at it's finest )

But the happiness faded fast when we stuck him on Santa's lap.
Oh the horror. ^
Poor Santa.
Such a sweet old man just taking our child's screaming like a champ.

Oh well. There's always next year.

As soon as Aaron took him off Santa's lap,
Ryan was as happy as a clam.

"Treat" was the first thing he asked for.
Awesome. Child.

^^ He even told Santa what he wanted for Christmas and left with a high five. ^^

At our ourdoor mall there is a "dancing tree" or so Ryan calls it.
The lights change to music and it's pretty incredible.
I felt like belting out "Oh Christmas Tree" while watching it.

^^ December nights are oh so magical! ^^

And what's a Saturday night without ice cream!?
Ryan ordered all by himself and said "chocat, ice cream, pleeese"
( Chocolate - which by the way is totally from his dad, I'm Vanilla through and through )

Happy Tuesday! XO

Thanksgiving weekend is the best.

Besides Thanksgiving day with really good food, my birthday usually falls somewhere inbetween.

Which makes for the best weekend ever.

In the past, Thanksgiving weekend has meant that Aaron is piled high with stress for final studying and homework.

This was the first year without one notecard or book carried around all day.

So I was completely SPOILED having him all to myself.

My birthday fell on Black Friday.
If you knew me, you would know that a 'Black Friday birthday' is a dream birthday for me!

Shop all. day. long.

And that's just what my mother - in - law and I did.
Good deals make me so happy!

I know some people hate the crowds of people on Black Friday, but I love the hustle and bustle.

Thanksgiving night, Ryan spent the night at my in-laws house and Aaron and I went out at 11 PM to shop ToysRUS for Ryan.

It was heaven for us.

Ry semi - understands what's going on for the first time so picking out what we wanted to get him for Christmas, was a dream.

Aaron and I even splurged this year ( first time ever ) ha and bought a new TV at Best Buy for our 'soon to be' first home!
We will taking movie night to the next level and you are all welcome to come watch movies with us.
I'm kind of excited about it.

On my birthday, my mother - in - law and I were up at 5:45 AM.
Don't do the math - I think I got 1 hour of sleep that night HA

We shopped every store possible and then spent 6 hours at the outlets.
I was on pure adrenaline.
My boys were right by my side all day ( TOTAL troopers ) and it was so wonderful!

My birthday ended with my favorite birthday cake from my sweet in-laws -

Birthday cake ice cream cake with sprinkles.

My child got a little excited and was caught red handed sneaking whipped cream. ^^

24 is going to be a good year.

(( Thank you for all the sweet birthday wishes - seriously made my day! ))

And now for my favorite moments of Thanksgiving weekend in pictures...

Ryan acquainting himself with the Sting Rays.

We spent an afternoon at the Houston Downtown Aquarium.

We rode a train, saw every fish imaginable and Ryan was on cloud nine.

He kept saying, "LOOK! Mommy! HUGE fish!"

"LOOK! Mommy! Baby Fish!"

Ryan's favorite part was the white tigers.

My in-laws got him two white tiger Souvenirs to take home - a baby tiger and a mommy tiger.

Or so Ryan calls them.

He will not go anywhere without them now.

Say Hello to Baby Tiger.^^

Ended the weekend by spending Saturday in Canton with my turkey leg and roasted corn.
( Aaron laughs every time he watches me carry my 5 pound turkey leg around town )

Canton, Texas is about a 3 hour drive from Houston and it's incredible.

We made it a day trip to meet Aaron's grandparents there - a lot of driving for a day but it's pretty amazing.
I can't even describe it, you will just have to see it for yourself one day.
It's a HUGE market on multiple acres, with vendors of every kind and everything "Christmas" you can imagine.

Ryan's favorite part of Canton was petting random strangers dogs.
Awesome, child who knows where those have been.

We packed so much into four days that I'm convinced my body is still trying to catch up on sleep.

The best part of Thanksgiving weekend is spending time with the people you love most.
So grateful for this season.
For my Savior,
my sweet husband,
for family, friends,
and for the chance I have to be a mother.

Hope everyone had the most wonderful 4 day weekend!

Oh heyyyyy....

It's been awhile since I have poked in on here.

I'm 27 months now and kind of a big deal around here.
But I guess, I have always been a big deal around my house.

Mommy says I'm pretty smart now.
I know my ABC's and I can count to 20 ALL by myself!

Life has been pretty sweet lately.

Did my mommy tell you we are building a new house?

I call it "Yayan's new house".

I'm pretty "happpyyyy" about it.

Mommy says once we finally get into my new room I can have a big boy bed.

They still keep me in that dang crib.

Mommy's convinced I'm going to be her baby forever.

I decided to keep my cool in Nursery at church the last couple weeks

and not completely freak out when mommy left me there.

I finally figured out that she's always going to come back and get me.

Come on mom. I got this.

Mommy and Daddy took me to pick out my very own tree for my room.

It was a hard choice.

They even let me choose my first ornament.

There was so many to choose from.

I licked an "ice cream cone" ornament because it looked so good, and mommy got mad at me.

"aht the heck!" I said. = "What the heck" ( My new favorite phrase )

How was I supposed to know it was fake!???

I chose Thomas the Train for my ornament. What else is new?!?

Check these dudes out.

What a bore!

I had to sit through this Law thing for my daddy.

Good thing I had snacks.

Saturday night is the coolest.

Mommy and Daddy let me stay up an hour past my bedtime and we have movie night.

All I ever ask to watch is "Cars" or "Mater's Tall Tales".

This is me eating my popcorn.

I decided to start calling mommy "honey" because that's what my daddy calls her.

And I think everything daddy does is cool.

Every morning she comes in to get me from my crib and I say "hi Honey!"

She likes it but, let's be honest, she likes everything I say.

Mom and I like to chill on the driveway and play cars.

We have races down the hill to see which of my hot wheels are the fastest.

Lightening Mcqueen wins every time.

He's the coolest.

Speaking of Lightening Mcqueen, all I want for Christmas is Mater.
Mom says I have to be a really good boy.

What else....hmmmm

Oh ya!

The other day I made quite the scene when I threw a chunk of dog poop.

I thought it was a rock and mommy saw me chucking it across the road.

It was sticky and pretty dirty and mommy told me "it aint no rock!"

Mommy made me wash my hands 5 times and put on clean clothes.

She says the dog poop episode wasn't as bad as me soaking my toothbrush in the toilet and then sucking off the water episode.

That may go down in history as my biggest dirty trick yet.

P.S. I really like this whole Christmas thing.

Santa is one cool dude and mommy says we are going to sit on his lap soon.

I don't know if I want to touch him but maybe I will give in if he has a treat.

Either way I pray at night in my prayers that he can bring me Mater for Christmas.

Well, that's all for now! BYYYYYEE!!

@kmpowell

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