In the Meadow we can Build a Snowman!!

Today it snowed, and snowed, and snowed some more! Mimi had off of work so I stayed with her while Mommy went to work! Then at around 12:30, Mommy came home! We sat and ate some lunch together and then Mommy said we would go outside and play in the SNOW!! Mimi, Mommy, and Me went upstairs to get dressed for the snow. I grabbed my new Thomas the Train boots and headed up the steps!

I thought we were all done dressing by then Mimi said I needed gloves on before we went outside.

MiMi bought me a sled a few weeks ago and I was so excited to see how it all worked! Mimi took me sledding down the hill in front of her house and it was so much fun!

Mommy and me had so much fun playing outside with MiMi!

Mommy took a few turns taking me on the sled down the hill!! We went super fast!

Then we walked across the street to see the nieghbor's "choo choo" blow up decoration they have in their yard. I love trains! The whole road and everything else was covered in snow!

All of a sudden while we were outside, Mommy got down on the ground and started making a big ball of snow. I didnt know what she was doing! She told me that it was a snowman she was making, just like Frosty!!

Today we had so much fun playing in the snow!! Even though Liam loved it, he only lasted about 15 minutes, but went down the hill on the sled lots of times! The nieghbor was joking with me that I was having more fun going sledding than Liam, I think he was right! And making a snowman?! How much fun is that! I havent made a snowman in years!! It was so much fun I recommend everyone do it when the snow is right!! :)

Meeting My Cousin Josh

On Sunday December 14th, My Mommy's cousin Josh came home for the first time in a long time to visit. He lives in sunny Arizona. My mommy said that Arizona is way out west! We all went to my great grammy's house for lunch on Sunday afternoon. My cousin Tanner was there and we have lots of toys that grammy keeps for us to play with. Whenever we come over she pulls out the basket and we make a BIG mess!!

I had fun showing Tanner my book. Even though I am not too good at sharing, I did better this time, and didnt even push Tanner (I pushed him a bit when we last played together and he was sad).

It was such a fun day with family. Aunt Cheryl made yummy lasagna and brought bread and salad. she cut a piece for mommy and I ended up eating all of mommy's piece and my own, and two whole pieces of bread!

Sitting: Cousin Kori, Liz and Liam. Standing from L to R Cousin Billy holding Kori's son Tanner, Grammy Todora, and Cousin Josh.
Liam had such a wonderful time with family this Sunday at Grammy's house. I have not seen my cousin Josh in about 10-15 years, and Liam had never met him. Kori, Josh, and Billy are all siblings. Their brother, my cousin Ryan is missing from the picture, he lives in CA, my brother Eliot is also missing from the photo. This is the first time so many of us have been in the same place at the same time. It is unfortunate that it probably wont happen again for a long time. Family is very important to me and I love when Liam gets a chance to spend time with his family!! Once again the only sad part of this day was it came to an end, and that Pop was not there. He always sat in the same chair at the head of the table, and every time I go there I find myself leaving that chair empty, as if he would walk up the steps at any moment and take a seat.

Leilah's Birthday Party

My friend Leilah turned 3 on December 6th and we were invited to her party!! It was alot of fun, and probably the last time I will see her for a while she is moving all the way to Chicago :(

We had lots of fun playing with balloons at her party.
We also played with her dollhouse together. It even had a front door bell!! Uncle Charly said I shouldnt play with a dollhouse because it was for a girl, but then .............

He sat down next to me and saw how much fun it could be to play with the house! Leilah didnt want to play anymore so Uncle Charly played with me instead, and he had fun!

Just me!! Leilah's mommy Taundra is in the left background. She is a very nice mommy. Leilah was starting to open her presents in this picture!

WHEN TISSUE PAPER ATTACKS!!!!!!! Leilah had fun playing with all the wrapping paper that wrapped up her presents!! We all laughed and watched her jump and throw the paper!

After presents it was time to sing Happy Birthday and eat cake!! Leilah's mommy made a yummy cake for her! Her daddy Josh held the cake while we all sang. Leilah even blew out her own candle! She is a big girl!

Taundra brought out Leilah's princess table and we both sat down to eat our cake together!! It was yellow cake with chocalate icing and pudding in the middle!! I dont like sweets too much but this cake was so yummy I wanted my very own piece!!

Liam has so much fun playing with his friend Leilah. We always joke that she is his future wife. She is such a beautiful little girl. They almost look like they could be siblings, both little blonde hair blue eyed babies!! The first few times they got together they wanted nothing to do with each other but everytime they saw each other again they got better. Now they are old friends! We are sad to be saying goodbye to Leilah soon as her family is moving to Chicago to be closer to her daddy's family! We will miss her and keep in touch, it will be a long distance romance LoL

Decorating for Christmas!!

Mommy put up the Christmas tree and she said we needed to clean up all my toys and put them in a better spot to decorate for christmas! I found toys I havent played with in a while, and my Halloween hat!

This is a picture of me wearing my Santa hat!

Here is a picture of my tree at home. It is really pretty. Mommy did a good job decorating it! Everytime we come home the first thing I do is ask her to turn the lights on!

I also got to help Mimi and Pappy decorate thier house for Christmas. I helped put the ornaments on the tree! Pappy said I took a little while longer than usual to put the ornaments on but I just wanted to make sure they were in the perfect spot!

While we decorated Mommy was in the kitchen baking cut out cookies. She rolled the dough and cut them out. Then before they went into the oven she let me put the sprinkles on!! Some cookies had lots of sprinkles on them, those are the ones I did!

Liam has had a wonderful time so far in all of our holiday festivities! We always make a big deal of decorating the tree(s) together! Making cookies is also a family tradition! We are going to Liam's great grandmothers this weekend to bake her famous chocolate cut outs! Christmas has always been a time for decorating, getting together with family, and watching movies together! We cherish the small things and are not so much into presents! We do exchange a few things and always have a stocking full of yummy goodies and some small gifts! Liams new favorite movie is the Polar Express which we have been watching every night (literally) since before Thanksgiving! We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season! Love and Best Wishes

Best Picture Place EVER Part II

I forgot to add this picture to the last post. On the eve of Thanksgiving, we went to Portrait Innovations to meet up with Liam's father's family. Liam's Grammy, PopPop, sister Haley, brother Cameron, Aunt Shannon, Uncle BJ, cousin Karis, Aunt Nicole, Uncle Bryan, and cousin Hayden were all there. Liam and I had not seen them in a long time, and had never meant Karis before. She is even more beautiful in person!! It was hard to get Liam to sit for the pictures, as usual, all he wanted to do was run around and jump! I wish I had half of his energy!! After the pictures we all went to Red Robin for dinner. It was an unexpected nice night with Liam's family. Liam had so much fun with his sister, brother, and cousins!

The Beautiful Burns Children Left to right: Hayden, Liam, Haley holding Karis, and Cameron

The Best Picture Place EVER

On November 21st Mommy took me to the best photo place in the world yes ladies and gentleman we are talking about Portrait Innovations!
This is a picture of me giving Mommy a big kiss!

This is one of the few pictures they got of me actually sitting still. Its because they sat me on a stool and had Mommy hold on to me!

This is my rock star Rolling Stones cover page photo. Mommy got me a cool shirt to wear for my pictures with a guitar on it and everyone at Portrait said I looked like a rock star. Wheres the mo hawk when you need it!

They had to call another person into the room besides the photographer to help me smile and look at the camera! I just wanted to run around and jump!!

The ladies tried the rocking chair, the block, a stuffed dog, anything they could to get me to sit still! I on the other hand had very different plans which made it very easy for Mommy to pick out picture in the end!

This is the picture Mommy picked to be one of the package. I got to stand on a block with the number two on it because I am 2 years old now!!!

The Christmas room was so much fun! It had a Christmas tree and lots of fun boxes underneath it. They also had a book that I could look at. I think they wanted me to look up at the photographer but I was to busy reading the fun book!

The only thing that could get me to look up and smile was when one of the girls hide a stuffed cat in the present box! It was lots of fun to open it up and find the kitty!

For anyone who does not already know, Portrait Innovations is the best ever! I should so be a spokesperson for them!! I have taken Liam there three times already and I refuse to go anywhere else!! They are awesome and really know how to work with children of all ages! The prices are awesome too!! We went on a Saturday near Christmas which is insane in itself. We waited about and hour and a half which I only did because it is so worth it! By the time they took Liam's pictures, he was done! He had waited long enough and didn't want anything to do with anything! Still they got some really cute pics out of the whole deal and in the end everyone was happy! :)

Thanksgiving and Black Friday

On Thanksgiving Day we went to Grammy Todora's house for dinner. Aunt Cheryl, Uncle John, and Billy came. Cousin Kori and baby Tanner also joined us for the yummy turkey. Grammy made stuffing just like Pop's mommy used to make. It was a wonderful day with family. We all miss Pop very much and wish he could be there. We know that he was watching over us.

This was my pilgrim hat I made at school. I wore it a little bit. After the big dinner and fun day with my family, I fell asleep before I could even get my coat off.

The next day we went to my Grammy and Pops house. Grammy is my Daddy's mom. Every year she has a party for her daycare and they light all the christmas lights at their house. It is a fun night.

This is my mommy with my new baby cousin Karis. She lives in Maine with my uncle BJ and aunt Shannon. She is very pretty and we were happy to finally get to meet her!

This is me and my sister Haley. She has a Bratz tour bus and I decided that I wanted to ride in it. Haley pushed me all around the house.

When I was done, Haley took a turn. Even though she is 6 years older than me, I was strong enough to push her too!

I have not seen her in a long time and we had fun playing together. I didnt want to go home!

This is Haley and my cousin Hayden. He is only a few months younger than me, and we played together too.

I played so hard at the party that Mommy didnt even make it up the road and I was sound asleep!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and hope everyone else did as well. We had a great day at our Grammy's house even though it was so sad to know that we would not hear my Pop coming up the steps to join us for dinner. He is missed everyday and it makes us even more thankful for the family we still have and for all those we have lost. We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!!