Christmas Eve & Christmas Day

Where did Dillon go....I love this picture of him reading labels under the tree!
What a fun Christmas this year, I love how its so exciting and just plain joyful for the boys! Santa made a quick stop on Christmas Eve right before bedtime and brought the boys Spiderman and Superman sheets and blankets to sleep in that night before he came back around on Christmas morning :) We thought we heard sleigh bells while we were getting ready for bed.....?!! Carter kept saying "Santa was so, so sneaky!" Dillon just couldn't wait until it was time to wake up on Christmas morning that he was getting up every 15-30 minutes from 4:30am-on.....which meant that I was awake from 4:30 on too, but what a blast! And I must say, that it was so warming to have a truly white Chrsitmas.

We hope that each of you had a wonderful Christmas too! Send pictures if you have some to share :)

Its Winter!

Here is Dillon after his Christmas program at school last night the kids were all so cute! He is standing in front of his locker...Lucky kids, I didn't get a locker until I was in 6th grade!

I took this video this morning right before we left to take Dillon to the bus stop. Wow - listen to the wind! I had to stop walking with the boys down to the bus stop because its gotten too cold for Brayden and he just cries ALL the way home (poor guy!) so I drive a few blocks down there everyday. We have two of the sweetest girls who live next door and two more really great kids down the street and since we're sitting down there in the comfort of a nice warm car I invite all of them in while we wait for the bus. So I have two girls sitting in my front seat and 5 kids piled in the back of the minivan...its so funny when the bus comes and all the kids pour out of the van running to catch bus! I'm just glad they can all stay warm :)

Boys With Grandpa

This is a picture of the boys with my Dad before he left for Baja for the winter. He brought them matching "Blue Marlin Excavating" sweatshirts (Its his excavating company's name). I know that some of you, especially if we grew up together, have never even seen or met my Dad, so I thought this would be a good picture to share. He is a lucky guy to spend the winter in Baja, then he'll be off to stay at a ranch in Maui! Him and the boys adore each other and they have so much fun together....they can't wait until Grandpa David comes back to visit :)

Oh Christmas Tree....

We had our wonderful family friends over for Thanksgiving who included one of Dillon's very best friends, Aiden. I thought it would be a great idea to put up a tree before they had to leave for home and let all the boys decorate it as they please. When we used to have a living room and a family room I would put up my fancy-pretty tree in the living room and let the boys decorate a tree in the family room with all the fun ornaments that they love...but as nice as my fancy shmancy tree always looked, I always liked the boy's tree so much more with all the fun wooden ornaments, and Batman, Buzz and Woody ornaments, and the nutcracker guys on it. So now that we don't have a family room anymore we just have the one tree and it was adorned with all of our most fun and favorite ornaments, tastefully done by two 6 year olds and a 3 year old. Until one night when Carter wasn't feeling well and decided to get himself so cranky and angry that he pulled our 8 foot tree down. Yes, he pulled the whole thing down and we had to start all over again restringing lights and rehanging all the nice fun ornaments that hadn't broken in the fall...the boys really wanted the snowflakes this year :)

I had to include a picture of how our tree looks now, just because this has got to be the 6th year in a row that we can't string lights low or hang any ornaments within a baby or toddler's reach! It looks so funny. I can't remember what its like to have a fully decorated Christmas tree! I wish you all better luck with your own tree this year...

Doing Tricks

On Sunday the wind was blowing and the snow was flying so we stayed home in our sweats and drank hot chocolate. Dillon did some great headstands, Carter did one handed headstands, and Brayden showed off his new ability to stand on one foot :)