Early Christmas at the Campbell's

I have NEVER and I mean NEVER I have I EVER put up a Christmas tree in November.  Before kiddo I think I only put a tree up once.  That was only because I was watching a couple of kiddos at the time and thought they would enjoy it.  Well I am all about the tree now.  I just couldn't wait any longer, so me and Jones put them up a week before Thanksgiving.  Yes, I said them!  I have one in Jones' room and one in the living room.  I loved them both so much and was a little jealous that I had to go get one for mine and Cody's room! Jones loves them as much as I do!

Since I have put the lights up early, every day seems like Christmas.  It's a warm, ooey, gooey feeling in our house right now and I am in Christmas Heaven!

We also decided to change Jones' bed into his big boy bed and do away with his toddler bed, well, transform his toddler bed into a big boy bed.  It was a pain in the "you know what."  We will have Cody's parents down, brother and girlfriend and my dad and step mom down for Thanksgiving so now we will have an extra bed!

I do not want to relive that day.  Cody was annoyed beyond belief for the rest of the day after messing with that bed and we stayed clear of him:)  Jones loves it!

It has been super super cold here lately too.  I am loving the fire place this year.  We have lived here for almost 5 years and last year was the first year we used the fire place, and we only used it because we got 3 ft of snow, it was 5 degrees and we had no electricity for 2 days!  It was so clean and I didn't want to get it dirty, but after having to use it............I say use away!!!!!!!!

Play Day

We try to have a fun day with Jones once a month.  This month we had to run to OKC one day to pick up some more tags, for the ranch, at the wildlife department so we decided to stay and make a day of it.  We went and had sushi for lunch.. It was SOOOOO good.  Jones was chowing down on some rice too.

We  went to celebration station and played putt-putt and rode the go-karts.  Whats funny is Jones beat us both at putt-putt......

Jones had a fun day, Cody had a break from the ranch, and I got to get away from the day to day hustle and bustle of life.  SCORE!

Uncle Josh so happened to be playing with his band in the city, so we made a pit stop to say hi!!!!

Jones' First Real Hunt!

We had a bunch of hunts lined up and Jones was so bummed he couldn't be a part of it this time so  Cody had promised Jones he would take him hunting after things slowed down and this was the perfect night to go!  Jones was beyond thrilled.  Cody gave him his BB gun and gave him the low down on gun safety and made him hold his BB gun like you would a powerful gun.  Cody kept sending me videos and pics all night and it brought a tear to my eye.........He is just so big.

Cody said he did GREAT!!!!

But he did get bored fast.........:)

Arggggg Mate'!!

This year for Halloween Jones wanted to be a pirate.  I had found a cute pirate costume at Crazy8 a few months back and picked it up.  I then found a Jake costume at target a few weeks before Halloween and almost bought it too.  Glad I didn't!  There were so many Jake's!  Jones stuck out with his pirate costume!  He got lots of compliments!

He wasn't much interested in the candy...well not as much as I thought he would at least.  He enjoyed walking downtown though and enjoyed doing Trunk or Treat at the church.

They had face painting, they had hot dogs and lots and lots of candy!  Cody even participated and put on a pirate hat!  We had a fun night!