Christmas Eve

I don't have many pictures from Christmas Eve but I always LOVE Christmas Eve!

(Looked a lot better before I put foil over it... oops.)

Christmas!

Christmas morning was finally here! Whit had been counting down the days for quite some time.

He got a bike!

Whit "helping" Thomas open his gifts.

Paper is so much better than the gift.

Whit got an I-touch... again! Maybe this one will last longer.

Oh baby... Hayley gave me an Edward blanket!

Sweet boys

If only they acted as sweet as they looked :) My mom made these.

Christmas Crafts

Here are some things we've worked on for Christmas...

I put books together of all of our old Christmas cards- love looking through old ones!

Melissa- my SIL- gave me all the ornaments for our advent tree. We've loved doing this every night as a family devotion!

This might be my new favorite ornament- Whit made it for us at school with his thumbprints

Our Christmas tree canvas with both boys handprints

Tis the Season

I know my 3 followers have been wondering where I am. Well, we've been busy! And sick... 2 sick kiddos has proven to be no fun. But, here is a preview of what we've done in December...

It snowed!!!

John and Whit put up Christmas lights. Whit LOVES them.

Decorated for Christmas!

Our first year with 4 stockings

We made a gingerbread house...

that fell apart about 5 minutes later...

More to post later- those are just some random pictures.

My little Santas

Love this outfit! We put poor Whit in it when he was a round little ball and of course I had to pull it out for Thomas. Here are pics of both boys.

Thomas

Whit

Lots of happenings

First off, I think when I first created a blog I did it with the thought I could have a Christmas design one day. Well... here it is!

We have had 1 busy week! Holy cow I'm tired but have had a lot of fun. I know 2 little boys who are pretty tired too.

We'll start off with Monday- Whit's first holiday program! I was so excited- had the video camera, our camera, loads of grandparents... and he just stood there. Didn't sing, just wrapped his hands around his throat like the experience was literally killing him. I'm at least proud he stood and didn't dart... that's a step forward.

We had our cousins in town and had a blast! Hunt and Molly stayed with us and Whit loved the built-in playmates who would get up at 5 with him! Yes... 5:00 a.m.... we made the most out of our cousins being here! This time last year the poor kid didn't know what to do with all of his cousins around and he just retreated, but this year he was right there with them having a ball.

Thursday we had 2 Thanksgivings and here are pictures below. Since I didn't officially finish a list here are things I'm thankful for from this week: The Jardinas, O'Donnells, and Roberts for all driving in safely and getting to see far-off family, all of Whit's cousins who love him and he loves too, early bed-times for kiddos because mommy was tired, grandparents who hosted both Thanksgivings, Thomas being a trooper and hanging in there after lots of missed naps... and so many more things I'm thankful for but am too tired to think about!