The Bradshaw Tree

We have been loving all the decorating, Christmas songs, treats and magic that make the Christmas season special holiday. We ventured out on Thursday night to find the perfect tree.

First we had to make sure it was snug in the tree stand...

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Then the lights came next, I have to say Trevor did a wonderful job!

Next, the kids had at decorating the tree!!

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All decorated and ready for presents...

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Gone Fishing

No morning would be complete without a little elf magic in the Bradshaw Nook! Olaf landed in the boy's bathroom after his long trek from the North Pole. Ethan was very distraught to find goldfish in the toilet and was even more disturbed to see that Olaf was sitting in a floaty ring with a fishing pole! Then he decided Olaf must miss fishing in the North Pole and then it seemed to all make sense to him!!

This little elf has brought so much fun and magic into our house in just 5 short days!!! I can't wait to see where he'll land and what he'll be doing tomorrow!

Dear Santa...We Have Been Awfully Good This Year

Dear Santa,

When you make your list and check it twice Ethan and Carter have been awfully nice!! These boys worked super hard on making their letters special to you...

Here is what they asked for:

(Translation of Ethan's letter to Santa: Dear Santa, I have been good. I want a turbo set and turtles. I love you Santa. Love, Ethan Bradshaw)

These kids are the light of my life, so sweet and so precious. I loved watching them meticulously decide where the stamps and stickers were going to go!! I hope you remember how sweet they are Santa when you hurry down our chiminey this year!

xoxo - The Bradshaws

Deck the Halls

We've decked the halls with lots of lights, snowmen, reindeer and moose, a countdown to Christmas, red ribbons and all that glitters...Fa La La La La La La La La!!

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Las Vegas Fun

As you all know we celebrated Thanksgiving in Las Vegas with Trevor's family! In the 5.5 years Trevor and I have been together this was our FIRST Thanksgiving in Vegas. We agreed last year that it was time to start rotating the holidays between our two families. I got to cook with my mother-in-law and sister-in-law which was so much fun. We mulled over fun things for the family to go do. We figured out some really fun things, starting with seeing Frozen!

We followed that up by racing over to the Las Vegas Speedway to drive through their Glittering Lights! Unfortunately we did not snap any photos of this as Ethan was driving on Yaya's lap through the obstical course of lights!

I think the kids' favorite thing during our trip was going to Opportunity Village where they rode on a train, went down an "icy" slide, rode a magical carosel, and met Mrs. Clause.

Then of course as I have talked about before we finished off our trip with the kids meeting their new friends...the Scout Elves.

I just love how everything fell into place and we had such a wonderful and magical trip!

Holiday Magic

The holidays are here!! Our lights are on our house; we are happily tree hunting; Christmas music is on full-blast; decorations are going up; and, most importantly, Santa brought us a Scout Elf...Olaf!!

Olaf has been bringing treats each day to the boys, I wanted to avoid giving them just candy and sweets. So far he has brought the boys a few new Christmas movies and some yummy breakfast treats. He will be bringing them different things throughout the month so you'll have to tune in for updates on what our sneaky little elf has been up to!

We kicked off December by having a fun breakfast with our cousins Madison and Bronson. They too received a Scout Elf from Santa on Sunday morning! Olaf brought the pipsqueaks two new Christmas movies for our long trip back to Reno, Scooby Doo a Winter Wonder Dog and Prancer (my favorite). The boys thought it was great fun!

Yesterday, Olaf had made the boys breakfast...which neither of them ate!!! But today, we had had a Snowy Breakfast complete with snow covered donuts and snowman poop (marshmallows) in our hot chocolate. The boys absolutely LOVED it, I think Carter just licked the powedered sugar off of each donut and didn't acutally eat them, but he's cute nonetheless!!

Tonight we are going to be decking the halls of the Bradshaw Nook with all of our non-tree decorations!! Olaf was found playing in the decoration box this morning!!! It's a good thing our boys are SO good...or rather that their parents are so forgiving!

I will post pictures of the elf and of our wonderful trip to Las Vegas in the next post...I have two more that will be popping up later this evening!!