November and December 2015

Life is slowly starting to slow down...kind of, it definitely is true that as you get older time goes by faster. I am way behind on my blog updates so this one will be a combination of the last couple of months.

Having two weeks off I was hoping to accomplish more,  but oh well, it will happen eventually right? =).  I hope everyone has a wonderful 2016. We are looking forward to working on our house more and enjoying our family and friends! Cheers!!!

The girls and I celebrated New Years Eve by making a fort, eating pizza, making banana chocolate chip cake, coloring our 2016 sign, and watching Inside Out =)

December was a crazy month filled with lots of holiday festivities including making cookies, taking the journey to the North Pole cruise in CDA, making our trek to Seattle to celebrate the Christmas the weekend before Christmas with my family and decorating gingerbread houses. While we were there it was great, however the drive there and back were crazy.....7 hours there and 11 1/2 hours home (hoping next year will be better, but if not we will wait and go when the weather is better).  Reese had so much fun this year with Christmas and was so excited to open everything that she got (she is truly a thankful child) so much fun to watch. Avery is still getting use to the whole opening present thing, but loves all of her new stuff.

Christmas Eve with Nates side of the family

Decorating Christmas cookies with cousins

My mom and Paul had all 7 grand kids spend the night

Reese loving her Frozen puzzles at my dad's house

My dad made Reese a mirror for her bedroom

Miley helping Avery open her presents

Exchanging gifts with Alaina

Cheers to sisters and holidays!

The Santa cruise with a coworker and her little girl, it was cold, but the girls had a blast

Breakfast with Santa and a movie, we watched the minions =)

Decorating Gingerbread houses with the cousins

Visit with Santa at the mall, Reese told Santa she wanted books and Avery wanted a baby doll

Christmas Jammies that Sparkle Girl the elf brought

Avery hanging out with grandpa the day after Thanksgiving he came over to work on our kitchen some more

We hosted Thanksgiving this year in our new house with 16 people!! It was great and so much fun, although of course I forgot to take pictures =(.

Thanksgiving Family Picture

I got to have a little girls trip away with family in Portland for a night, to shop and hang out. Always a great trip =).

PORTLAND TRIP!!!

Reese and I had a girls date with Nate's mom, sister, and our niece Mikayla. We took the girls to see Frozen Disney on Ice, even though Reese was sick she absolutely loved it.

Frozen Disney on Ice

Craziness!!

Fall in the Stultz household has been crazy, but we are making it work. My mom came to visit in the middle of October and we had a busy few days while she was here, we went to the pumpkin patch, showed her our new home, and went to the Chinese lantern festival that was being held in Spokane. We all had a great weekend!

Riding a dinosaur at the lantern festival

                                               

Sisterly Love

                                               

Me and the girls

Grammie and the girls

Pumpkin Patch

The girls and Nate waiting for our friend Jordan's wedding

Matching Halloween Jammies =)

Airplane

Avery also turned 18 months in the middle of October and she is NOT a fan of the doctors. As soon as I put her on the table she cries (the entire time). She is on her little curve for height 30 1/2 inches (25%) but dropped on her curve for her weight 19 lbs. 11 oz. (1%) so the doctor wants to go back in December for a weight check. In the mean time we have been forcing her to eat and giving her a lot of high calorie foods, hopefully that helps. The doctor estimates that she will be about 5'1" or 5'2", always going to be our little peanut. She loves her mom and is definitely a mamas girl. She is talking more and more (hi, bye, baby, owie, uh-oh, dad, orry (sorry), tink you (thank you), me (mine), I want), nac (snack). She loves to flirt and waves and says hi to everyone when we are out running errands. She enjoys singing with her sister and taking her sister's things and running away, oh sisterly love.

My dad came over for a week at the end of October to start our remodel on our kitchen so for a month we had a nonfunctional kitchen. Currently we are functional (as of Friday) and are just waiting on putting the rest of the hardware on the cabinets, framing in the window, putting in the hood vent and the backsplash. We can't wait!

Our Cabinets arrived

Hello Fairview Rd

Bye Bye N. Milton St.