Breakfast with Santa

Saturday morning me and Chantell took the boys to
"Breakfast with Santa" at Dear Lizzies. Anyone who has been there knows it is the cutest place ever, and this event was no exception.

Of course Bridger was extremely nervous around Santa, and wanted me to hold him while he told Santa that he wanted a dump truck and tractor.

They had it all set up so Santa would call them by name up to his lap. I asked Dakota how he knew everyone's name???? He said that he was just looking at the list that lady next to him had.
Dakota is certain that the real Santa is at the North Pole working on all of his toys.

Dakota is basically not capable of a normal smile....

Bridger spent the majority of the time feeding his cow and baby Tiger!

Karate

I decided to sign Dakota up for Karate.
He is always saying that he wants to do it and
I thought that it would be something fun to keep him busy.
Dakota absolutely loves it and asks everyday if it is a Karate Day.

On his second day he was tested and earned his white belt. After that he was given the chance to break a board. They showed him how to do it with the palm of his hand.... he decided to go all out and punched it with his fist!!! His poor little knuckles were sore,
but he could not have been prouder!

Santa

Bridger refused to sit or stand anywhere near Santa....
so we all had to join in this year!

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving this year.
Scott's family came over and we had dinner at our house!!!
Normally this would be something that would stress me out to the max, but Scott's mom did the turkey which is the most stressful part. I was really excited to get to try out a big crowd at our new house, and everything turned out really nice. I was also really excited about setting up a super fancy table for the occasion. I had to mix a few different place settings to make enough for 12, but I think that it turned out really cute.

Scott and I started the morning out running the Turkey Trot 5K in American Fork, and then drove to about 4 different places to find some where to eat breakfast.
Seriously, no where was open!!!
We spent the rest of the day cooking and working on Christmas lights.

After dinner we just hung out and waited for the Black Friday/ Thursday to begin!!!
I was not at all excited to stay up all night, but it ended up being a lot of fun. Me and my mom started at Walmart at 10 pm and didn't return home until about 3:30 am. We tried to stay up so we could leave again at 5, but ended up sleeping in until 7:30 and hit the stores again.
Did we get any real great deals and were worth the lack of sleep???
Probably not, but we had a lot of fun!

These were some cute activity/ treats that I saw on a blog.
Dakota loved making them!

Scott and Bridger resting after the big meal!

Happy 6th Birthday Dakota...

6 years ago today a little boy entered our lives and things were never the same!!!
Dakota is getting old, just ask him :-)

This year Dakota had a "Trash Pack" themed birthday....
Trashies are little rubber guys that are each based on a piece of trash. Dakota's favorite is named "Broken Bottle". He saw them on TV and has been obsessed ever since.

Sunday we had everyone over to celebrate. We made Dakota's favorite dinner... Cafe Rio. Dakota was in heaven with all of the presents, he of course was crazy spoiled by everyone.

Today I took him to Toys R Us so he couls spend the money that Scott's mom gave him.
What did he get???? Of course more Trash Packs.
We then went to Cafe Rio and stood in a huge line with Bridger running every where just so Dakota could get a side of Ranch and a side of tortillas.
Dakota thought that it was a perfect day!!!

Happy Birthday Dakota, love you!!!

Dinosaur Birthday !!!

Last Thursday Me, Chantell and Autumn took Dakota and a few of his friends
to the dinosaur museum for his birthday.

Thanksgivng Point does an awesome job with their parties.
It was so nice to have them do everything and we just showed up!
The kids got to go on a tour of the museum,
make fossils and then have cake in their cute party room.
It seemed like everyone had a great time... especially Dakota :-)

Dakota's Turkey...

For Dakota's Birthday he got an art easel (more birthday pictures to come).
He loves it and has been drawing non-stop. Today he insisted that I take a picture of his turkey, and "blog" it to his kindergarten teacher :-)
I am assuming that he wants me to email it to her... so cute!