LOVE the holidays!

We are very much enjoying the holidays and we are so excited Christmas is just around the corner. We have gotten Peyton lots of fun things, and this year is going to be so fun because she will actually be excited to open presents and see her new toys, not just play with the wrapping paper. :) We taught Peyton to say "HO HO HO Merry Christmas" because my mom told me how my little brother used to say that and how cute it was. When Peyton says it, it comes out as "HO HO HO Missmas!"

Saturday we had the annual Bingham Christmas Party (my dad's, mom's family). It is always fun to get to see all of our family that we don't see very much throughout the year. Ryan, my uncle Eric and a couple of my brothers went out a little earlier in the day to shoot birds.. and they did. Ryan expects me to cook dove for dinner... not happening!!! Then they went to the church were we have the party because all the guys get together before and play basketball. Peyton and I came with the rest of my family just in time to eat the yummy dinner and play bingo! The Binghams/Christensens/Johansens love their bingo! The Christensen family dominated bingo! We won every present except for one, and Ryan and I both won, which is strange because we never win! Peyton had a blast running through the church and playing in the nursery with the toys and other kids. She got into it over a toy with another little girl and she got her hair pulled. Now whenever we talk about church Peyton rubs her head and said "church owww" with a big pouty face! Poor girl! Hopefully this wont effect her going to nursery from now on!

 Of course, it took a few tries to get a good picture of Ryan :)

 Lately, when we ask Peyton to smile this is what she does. There are a few variations of her smile, one looks something like a kissy face. I think for a while we are going to have a lot of pictures that look like this :)

 Another Peyton smile...

 

Peyton was so nice to help uncle Spence put tables away :)

Happy Family :)

 

I cant believe how fast November flew by and now December too! Christmas is in 5 days.. crazy! We are so lucky to live so close to both of our wonderful families, it makes the holidays that much better. We are planning on spending Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with both families and we cant wait for some quality family time.

Our little Christmas tree was looking so sad with no presents under it so I wrapped a few of them up and put them under the tree. It was a bad move, Peyton has decided that they are all her baby seats and she drags them everywhere to stand and sit on. They were all so beautifully wrapped and now they are a bit mangled. I guess we will have to wait til Peyton is asleep on Christmas Eve to get the rest out.

Ryan is a big fan of real trees, but he was so nice this year to let me get a fake, pre-lit tree! Putting the tree together :)

 Our poor tree didn't get completely decorated this year. I was planning on making bows to put on it, and I have all the ribbon, I just haven't gotten around to making them yet. Maybe by Christmas I will get them made, or hopefully at least by next Christmas :)

 The three presents that I wrapped were already missing bows within seconds of me putting them under the tree.. definitely going to wait to wrap the rest!

Sitting on the presents.. I have been informed that they are her "baby seats".

Peyton is doing wonderfully these days. She is such a sweet little girl and we just love her so incredibly much! She is coming up on 20 months and she is still such a tall girl and has a head full of TONS of brown curls! These little Peyton bits are more for my personal use, so I can remember all the things she said and did when she was a baby how ever many years down the road, and for our parents, grandparents and other family who like to keep up on her life, so I know its long, but if you enjoy reading it, feel free :)

She is still busy as ever! She is talking like crazy, and it is so fun to be able to communicate with her so well! The things that she says and does get more hilarious everyday! I was driving with my mom the other day and Peyton yells "MOMMM WASSHHHH!" (mom watch!) from the backseat, so I turn around and she is balancing her sippy cup on top of her head, it was so funny and very impressive! Peyton is a major family lover! We have the hardest time getting her out of any Grama's and Grampa's houses, she just has so many people who love her and she has so much fun with all of her uncles, aunts, cousins, gramas, grampas, etc... She calls grandparents "Nama" and "Gampa" and she can easily pick any member of either mine or Ryan's family out of a picture and tell us who they are. Peyton kind of picks favorites, and each day it changes. If you aren't on the favorites list that day, you are going to get zero attention from Peyton and she shows no sympathy (unless you lay on the ground and start crying.. which sadly we all do even daddy and all the uncles, and then you will get a little bit of pity love). Peyton is a little bit bossy, and very sassy! We went to church with my family last week and my dad kept trying to share Peyton's crayons with my little brother Kaden and Peyton was not having any of that! So she kept taking her crayons away from Kaden as fast as my dad could give them to him. When she had about six crayons in each hand she put them down, got her pointer finger in my dads face and shouted in the middle of Sacrament meeting "GAMMMPAAAA NOOOO MORE!" And I mean shouted! The other day when Ryan's mom and sister were babysitting for us she did the same thing to them. I cant remember exactly what Ryan's mom was doing that Peyton did not approve of but she got right in Tammy's face and said "NAAMMMA NOOOOOOO!" Ryan and I get told on a daily basis "no more" or "stop it" to just about everything we do.

She loves wearing Ryan's hats and beanies. If we ask her if she is gangsta she says "uhhhh yaaaa!" and she holds up three or four of her fingers and says "peace!"

 She insisted that she be the one to feed herself pudding :)

 After I took a couple of pictures Peyton asked me if I would take more pictures, one with here folding her arms and one with her arms up.. so we did :)

Peyton pretended to be asleep when I asked her to look at me for a picture :)

 Peyton loves to lay on the couch with her bottle and get all snuggled up with her blanky in the mornings after she wakes up.

The many faces of Peyton Jo :)

Peyton loves her sleepy time. She loves naps and going to bed at night. During the day if I don't put her down soon enough she will get her bottle and her blanky and come to me, grab my hand and drag me into her bedroom, point to her crib and say "mom seeepy!" Once I lay her down she requests, "turty" which is a stuffed turkey Grampa Douglas gave to her, her moose that Grama Douglas and aunt Jessica gave her, and her baby. As soon as she has everything she needs she says "K! BYE! SEE YA!" and blows me as kiss as fast as she can. She wants me out of her room fast so she can sleep! It sure makes my days/nights easier not having to fight with her about going to sleep :)

One of Peyton's newest tricks is her air guitar. She closes her eyes, sticks her tongue out, dances around and gets her hands going like she is playing a guitar. It is the cutest/funniest thing I have ever seen.

Some Peyton favorites lately are the wiggles, sponge bob, and mikey mouse club house. She loves most disney movies, but really its mostly the wiggles right now. Ryan can barely watch a second of it without wanting to rip his hair out, but I am finding that I am starting to enjoy them. I often find myself singing wiggles songs throughout the day, it is such a sad thing to admit. I got on the computer the other day to see if a wiggles concert was coming to Boise soon but instead stumbled upon some old wiggles "news" about the blue wiggle and the affair he had with one of the wiggles dancers. The wiggles have scandals too! What?! What is this world coming to! Ryan expressed to me how truly sad he thought it was that I spent the day reading about the wiggles scandal. :) And I admit, it really was! But really.. a wiggles scandal.. c'mon!

Last week was finals week, hooray for that! Finally a much needed three week break! Only two more semesters and then the nursing program! I am so excited but a little bit terrified. Ryan is starting a new job in January. It is a marketing job and I think it is going to be an amazing change for our family. It is going to free up so much of Ryan's time and he will make so much more than he does now. We are so excited for this new change! In the spring Ryan is playing on a semi-pro football team, the spartans. It is going to be so fun to watch him play and Peyton sure loves football games!  Ryan is having a lot of fun playing on two city league teams this year and I am having fun watching!

 The Nampa team got new jerseys this year, and its pretty obvious Eric picked out the colors.. maroon and silver :) GO PATS!!! Ryan was not overly happy that he had to wear centennial colors being that he played for eagle and they are rival high schools and Eric thought it was pretty funny! And I will admit, it really was! I never thought I would see the day when Ryan would wear those colors!

 Ryan and Eric both got to be the numbers that they were in high school :)

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!