One more Christmas

Our last Christmas celebration was with my parents, Grandma, and sister's family. The kids had a lot of fun opening more presents and all played pretty well together. We had a nice dinner and enjoyed watching the boys open the last of their Christmas presents. It was such a nice Christmas....I can't wait till next year:)

Hazel sharing her new baby doll with Aiden,

Logan - trying really hard to be cool:)

More assembling for Brian!

The newest member of the family - baby Olivia.

SANTA!!!

Michael and Logan made out their own list to Santa this year. They came up with some pretty funny things for Santa to bring them....

Michael:

1. race track and cars

2. a monster

3. a teddy bear and puppy for Aiden

4. a roller coaster

5. a train

Logan:

1. race track and cars

2. a hippo

3. a dog

4. a bag

5. a train

Aiden (with help from M and L)

1. a puppy

1. a teddy bear

3. a train

4. race cars

Santa did a pretty good job being creative to come up with everything on their lists plus a few surprises of his own. Unfortunately he waited till the very last minute to finish assembling and wrapping the gifts so it was a late night for him and his elf:) Luckily the boys slept in a little and we had a great time watching them open their gifts. Santa even brought breakfast and made coffee before he left! This year was my favorite Christmas with the boys so far.

Aiden's favorite gift from Santa.....it's bigger than he is and he now sleeps with it every night!

Santa saved the biggest surprise for last.....

a pirate tent for the boys new pirate playroom in the basement.

Christmas Catch Up

We had a great time celebrating Christmas with the boys this year. We attended a special Christmas Eve service where the boys gave a gift to baby Jesus and then headed to Brian's parents to have our first of many Christmas celebrations.

Aiden is 2!

December 20th my baby turned 2 years old! I can hardly believe it.....he sure is growing up fast. He really tries hard to keep up with his big brothers and had a lot of fun celebrating his birthday with family and friends. Here are some photos from his Dinosaur Party.

Santa!

Yesterday Brian's mom hosted her annual Christmas Tea for the ladies, family dinner, and visit from Santa. It was a lot of fun and great to visit with everyone. Logan was really excited to see Santa and was first to jump in his lap! He told him what he wanted for Christmas and even got to take a peek in his bag of toys. Santa gave him a little pack of race cars and Logan has not parted with them yet.  

Poor Michael! There is a funny story behind this picture. Earlier in the day the boys were not sharing their toys with each other so I told them if they didn't start sharing their toys I would have to tell Santa they were being bad. When it was Michael's turn to sit on Santa's lap he didn't want to and said he was scared. I offered to take him over so he didn't have to go by himself. In the picture below he is confessing to Santa that he was bad that morning but had been good all year. Once Santa told him it was okay Michael ended up sitting on his lap and having a long conversation with him. It was so cute!

 

Aiden was not too sure about Santa but thanks to his older cousin Nick he finally went over to see him without shedding any tears.

This was our first year for a family picture with Santa! Aiden wanted to stay as far away as possible:) Maybe next year he won't be as scared. We had a great time and are now looking forward to celebrating Aiden's second birthday and Christmas with our families!

Happy Thanksgiving!

It has been a busy month at our house so I am a little late in getting these pictures posted. We had a great Thanksgiving visiting with both of our families and also visiting with the newest member of the family....baby Olivia.