24th of July

We had a really fun 24th this year. At my work they let us dress in western wear the day before, which means we could wear jeans. I jumped right on that found my best button up shirt and a red bandanna and threw my jeans on. Also on the day before we went to the drive in it was so much fun! We saw Despicable Me 2 and RIPD. Despicable Me was so cute, RIPD was alright but not the greatest movie we've ever seen. Then on the 24th we went to the Bees game, they won so that made it more fun and after the game they had a firework show. I was really impressed by it, we had great seats. We love baseball games! Then on that Friday we went to my Mom's house for a BBQ, my sister's family was there too. It's always nice to see everyone. And then Paul did the most awesome home firework show I have ever seen. So our 24th was great this year.

Let freedom ring

Like I've said before The 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays. We had so many fun traditions that we did when I was growing up. And new traditions that David and I are starting as well.
A few night before the 4th we went with my mom and her husband to see the Taylorsville fireworks. It was a lot of fun. And then on the 4th we went to the Magna parade. Madie's dance studio was in the parade so she got to be in the parade this year. Stockton loved getting all the candy that they would throw to the crowd, and he got a lot of candy. Little Ainsley looked so cute in her little 4th of July outfit. But she didn't like the big cars that would go by and honk their horns, poor little girl. After the parade we hung out with my dad, my sister and her kids for a little while. David wasn't feeling very good though so we went home pretty early and went right to bed so we didn't go to fireworks that night. I did see some out of our front window but it wasn't quite the same. We'll just wait for next year.

Madie waved right as I took the picture.

My fun Christmas gift

David gave me the greatest gift for Christmas, a jewelry armoire. Before I had it in four different places cause I couldn't fit it all in my old jewelry box. Now I can get all my jewelry to fit in one place it's so nice. It's much better because it's all on display and I can see everything I have. When i was filling it up I found all this stuff I had forgotten about I'm so excited to wear it all. I love accessories jewelry, shoes, purses you name it, so this was a perfect gift for me. Thanks Babe.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

This is mine and David's 3rd Christmas together, and they just keep getting better and better. I love this time of year we get to see our families, we get to give gifts to the ones we love, everyone is so much happier, the music, the lights, the decorations. (I could go on and on about the things I love about Christmas). Christmas day is usually a hectic but fun day. We start out by going to the traditional Bona family Christmas Eve party, then on Christmas day we go to South Jordan to visit my mom, then to my sister's to see my dad and our nieces and nephew, then to Layton to see the Taggart's, then we usually go to David's grandma's house in Ogden. A fun tradition David and I have started is collecting ornaments we get a new one each year I really like this little tradition of ours.

Here are some of the ornaments we've collected over the past 3 years.

I forgot to take the picture of these while they were still on the tree

October recap

Our October was pretty fun. "My Little Willis" turned 8. We got a new little niece Ainsley (who is adorable). Plus it was Halloween, unfortunately we weren't too fun that night. I had to have a procedure the next day so we had to stick around at home. The sad thing is we only had 4 trick-or-treaters. Well I guess it's not that bad, more candy for us right? I got some cute decorations from Gra Mr. Bones, a coffin, a witch and a ghost. Pa always loved Halloween so they had the greatest decorations. I loved Mr. Bones when I was little so Gra saved him and the coffin for me.

I took lots of pictures of everything as always, so here you go. 

She is such a poser, its so cute!

Little Baby A, she is such a little sweetheart

This is my surprise I made for Ainsley. It turned out pretty good if I do say so myself.

We found this candle at the witch festival. I had to get a picture of it.

I came out of the shower one night and found a surprise in the bed. The covers were up over his head, I really thought David was under there.

Witch Festival

We went this past week with David's sister and her kids to Gardner Village for the Witches Festival. It's so fun to go each year and see how they've decorated everything for Halloween. The kids seemed to really enjoy it, especially after when we went to Arctic Circle and let them play (they probably liked that more to be honest). I'm super bummed though,because a bunch of my cousins are getting together and are going to witches night out, but I have to work that night so I won't be able to join in on the fun. Oh well hopefully they go again next year and I can go with them then. As always I took pictures of our little outing, enjoy.

Proud to be an American

The 4th of July is my favorite Holiday. I love every thing about it the parades, the fire works, the BBQ's and spending time with family. This was our year to be with David's family so we went to the Layton parade on the 4th. And his sister Ashley had us over the day before for a barbecue. David's mom bought cute little hats for the kids to wear at the parade, the adults enjoyed them more though than the kids. David and his brother wore them the whole time it was pretty funny. It was a lot of fun to go to a new parade since every year I go to Magna's. The really cool thing about it was they had a fly over. I guess since they are so close to Hill Air Force Base it happens every year. Another fun thing was that they had bagpipes and not just one group of bagpipers but two. It was pretty impressive. Overall it was a very fun day, here are some pictures I took enjoy! (I always tend to go overboard on the pictures)

David in his cowboy hat. He told me he isn't smiling cause cowboys don't smile for pictures

This was when they did the fly over. I was too busy trying to get a picture of this though, so no picture of that.

Carter loved the parade, he kept trying to walk in with all the people