O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

It's December!  Let's just say I am excited about that!  I love this time of year!  Plus with the addition of Pinterest in my life, I am really enjoying implementing some of my pinned decorating ideas/crafts and recipes. :-)

Anyways, we kicked off the Christmas season by heading up to Maggie Valley yesterday to pick out our Christmas tree! This is our third year going to Boyd Mountain Farm to get our tree.  I LOVE doing this each year. Artificial trees were the standard in the Mayfield house growing up, and while Kenny's family always got a real frasier fir each year, they never went and actually had it cut down. 

It was extra special this year because of Tripp.  We knew last year that we were pregnant with Tripp and I remember talking about how next year he would be with us.   He was the size of a bean last year and now is a whopping 15lbs! It is completely mind blowing how much babies grow.

Checking out what the tree felt like.

Really studying this thing. 

Our tree

First of many awkward Santa pictures

Happy boy!



Really Happy!



We are partial...but such a cutie!

We all woke up with colds this AM, so we have spent the day in our pjs, watched TV, and decorated the house some more.  Hope everyone has a great week!

Very Thankful

We hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving this past week with their friends and family.  We certainly had plenty to be thankful for this year.  God has so richly blessed us, and we continue to be blown away by his love for us.  Tripp is an answer to prayer and we cannot imagine our lives without him. 

We spent the holiday up in Shelby with family.  It was the first time that my oldest brother Craig and his family were able to meet Tripp.  It was so sweet to see the cousin's interact with him. They fed him bottles, played peek-a-boo, made sure he had his paci, drug him around in his play seat.  You name it, they probably did it.  Tripp definitely did not miss out on any play time. It was great. 

We also got to introduce Tripp to some of our friends from medical school.  It was so sad to realize that a year and half had gone by since we had been able to see our friends Chase and Kelly.  Even with them only two hours away, residency schedule keep everyone busy and the time has just flown by.  We were excited to learn that they were going to be in Shelby for the holiday, so we brought Tripp over to meet them, watch the Blindside (great movie), and catch up.  Wish that we still lived in the same city!

First time in a high chair.

Yum!

Family shot.

Sweet Arden feeding the 'baby'

Chase helping us make Tripp laugh.

Papaw and BG with the grandkids.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Proof that our child DOES have melt downs.

We wrapped up the weekend with some football. I think that is all that needs to be said, considering the outcome was not good for either of our teams. It was an ugly weekend for the ACC. The upside of the day was that it was our first time leaving Tripp with a sitter. By sitter I mean grandparents. It was great. We sure did miss the little guy, but it was nice to enjoy some beers and hang out just the two of us + 80,000 friends.