{weekend}

We had a very fun weekend around here! Friday night Mark and I got to go out on what will probably be our last date before the baby arrives! We went out to dinner at Lime and to see the Broadway production of "The Lion King" downtown with our good friends Rick and Mandy. The show was great and it was very nice to have a relaxing night out together! Thanks Oma & Opa for watching the boys! They had just as much fun as we did just hanging out at your house!

On Saturday, we spent some time raking up the last of the leaves and had a little fun playing in them too!

Nolan sportin' his new Winter jacket!

Daddy fell in!

Running through the leaves and destroying Daddy's neatly raked piles! Look at the joy on his face! (He's carrying a train bubble blowing whistle necklace! He always has to have some sort of treasure in his hands! Funny boy!)

Throwing leaves at Daddy is so much fun!

And both boys even tried to help out a little, raking and sitting on the bag to squish the leaves down!

What a good lookin' guy!

Later that evening, we headed out to one of our favorite annual events: The Southlands Mall Tree Lighting Ceremony! We've gone for the past couple of years and really enjoyed the parade and Christmas spirit! 2 years ago, I actually went into labor with Heath the next morning after the tree lighting, so we were a little hesitant to go again this year, thinking it might trigger this little guy to enter the world as well! Ha!

Brad, Jayne, and Cohen joined us this year! Isn't this family photo of them just adorable! We didn't even get one of our family because it was so cold and we were so busy keeping the boys warm the whole time! But I'm glad I got this one of them...so cute!

Cohen's dance moves!

Watching the parade all bundled up!

Oh, the Grinch! He loved posing for me! Too bad he completely freaked Heath out and the rest of the parade was pretty much down hill from here...

Heath was FREEZING and so over the holiday cheer!

He didn't even care to see Santa arrive on the fire truck! But of course Nolan LOVED this part!

After Santa came, he lit the Christmas Tree. Nolan said this was actually his favorite part of the night, "the blue Christmas tree"! It is a real Colorado tree, very tall and scraggly! We stayed just a few more minutes, but couldn't take the cold much longer and headed home! By the time we made it to the car, both boys were frozen and crying! Not exactly the evening we had hoped for, but still a fun night to kick off the Christmas season!

When we got home we put the kids straight to bed and Mark and I cuddled up by the fire to watch some shows!

Sunday morning we went to early church, and relaxed at home watching football and cleaning. It was the perfect way to end the weekend, just chillin' at home! We have some busy weeks coming up with Heath's birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas fun, and of course the baby being born! So, we really enjoyed one of the few "family of four" weekends that we have left!