Jack's Christmas Presents!

Well, every year Jack gets his Christmas presents as soon as I get home from the store with them. I don't want to distract him with boxes, bows and wrapping paper because then he wouldn't notice the gifts I actually spent money on. So this year Jack got a new hanging feather toy, a clear rubber mat to put his food dishes on and.........a cute little Christmas costume!!

He seemed to like the toy!!

And the costume....... not so much!

The reindeer hat is so adorable but as you can see from Jack's expression it was torture!!

He didn't really care for the red coat either!

After we put the custume together and set him on the ground he acted as though he was dead. He didn't move at all!! It was hilarious!! Bryce and I were laughing so hard we were crying! Maybe Jack thought that if he played dead it would go away.

What a good sport! Merry Christmas Jack!!

Love, Mom and Dad :)

Our 3rd Thanksgiving in Omaha

We had a great Thanksgiving this year! I woke up early to start making stuffing and pea salad. I had never made homeade stuffing but it turned out pretty good. I'll have to thank my grandma for the recipe and my mom for telling me just how to do it. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. My mom and I have a tradition of watching the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade every year so I watched it while I was cooking. Bryce really, really loved the music (i.e The Jonas brothers, Dolly Parton, Sesame Street) and all the musicals.:) Yeah right.... he complained and "made fun" the whole 2 hours that he was forced to watch it. I enjoyed it anyway! It was also pretty cold outside which made it feel much more like the holidays even though I don't really enjoy the cold. We ate Thanksgiving dinner at a friends house with 2 other couples and their children. All 4 of the men are LDS Creighton Law students. There are a lot of "us" out here!

It is nice to hang out and spend holidays with people that are in our same situation. All of our families are either in Utah or Arizona so we become eachother's families out here!

For the past 3 years Kristin and I have ventured out on "black friday" to catch some sales, spend some money and fight the crowds. We spend every Thanksgiving evening "plotting" and maping out our route! We have so much fun! This year we were at Kohls at 4:30AM and then stood in line at Target for the doors to open at 6:00AM. By the time I got home around 3:00 PM I was exhaused, hungry and had a pounding headache......but I look forward to it every year! Chances are Kristin and I will not live close enough next year to "black friday" shop together. I can't even bare the thought!

I am officially a "Blogger"!

Well, I have had a few friends (you know who you are) trying to get me to set-up a blog for the past few months and I finally gave in. Cori left me with no choice when she tagged me and wrote "it's time to make your blog now". So, thanks again Cori!:) I really enjoy looking at my friends blogs and love how it lets me into what's going on in their lives even when I don't see them too often....or ever! The best thing about blogs are the pictures so I will warn you all that mine might be a little boring until Christmas when I get a new camera. Well.....it will probably continue to be boring even after then because not much goes on in the life of Bryce and Brittany. I'm sure there will be plenty of pictures of Jack (the cat) to add to the blog.:) Well, thanks girls for the push to make a blog. Awwww...it feels great to be a "Blogger".