Daddy's Hat

Isaac loves to play with Jon's hat. If Jon is here and he finds one of his hats he runs it over to him, it's really funny. Here are some pics I took of Isaac having fun with Jon's hat.

Christmas Recap

I just downloaded all the pics from my camera yesterday. How sad that I had pics all the way from December 2 on there. It was nice to look back at all of the pictures though. Christmas was fabulous as always. How can you complain when you get to celebrate it twice, Christmas Eve with Jon's family...and Christmas day with mine.

Christmas Eve started off good with us four all saying home and eating breakfast together and just relaxing and having fun. We headed over to Jon's family around noon for Christmas Lunch. Then we all open presents and had a good time.

Christmas Day we got up early and went to my parents for Christmas morning. We bring all of our gifts (like Jon's and Mine and what we give the boys) over as well. We had our favorite Christmas dinner. Homemade Mac and Cheese (Grandma Kitty's recipe), Broccoli, Salad, and my homemade rolls. I can't call it an official Grandma Kitty meal because we forgot the chocolate milk lol. And it is not the same without.

This was our first official Lego Christmas. Ethan was so excited to get his first real Lego sets. We got him a leap pad this year which he calls his "I-Pad" just like Mema and Papa have. Isaac got a leap frog train that he likes to rid around in, a lawn mower, books, clothes and a handmade quiet book my mom made for him. It's so darling!  They were of course spoiled.

I am horrible at taking pics at Christmas because I am to busy having fun. But here are a few...

This one makes me laugh. All I wanted was a picture with him lol...

Isaac and his Papa

Making sure papa is behaving...

The boys love Disney characters so IJ got a little Donald and Mickey in the top of his stocking and Ethan got a big Donald holding his stocking. Ethan has a big Pluto already and those are his two favorite characters.

I love this picture lol. It's so crazy with all four kids. But the reason I took this picture is because Isaac was most excited about the puffs he got in his stocking. He carried that thing around all morning.

Sitting in the corner eating his puffs...

A ROCKET LEGO he yelled...

Mowing Grandmas carpet. It's been vacuumed but never mowed before :)

Daddy and Ethan worked on his Lego's most of the day.

Our Christmas Card

Here is our Christmas Card I made this year. If you didn't get it leave me a comment and I will get your address and send it to you. I had a few come back.

Christmas Cookies

My friend Kelly invited me to her Christmas Cookie decorating party a few years ago. And I mean like probably 7 or so lol. I started going before I had Ethan and before I was pregnant. I think I was Kim's date for a few of them LOL.  But regardless of how I got invited to begin with, it was so much fun and I think every year since then I have done some sort of Cookie decorating for Christmas. She still does a party every year and we have gone to most of them. This year we had to miss because Ethan had a PT appointment and we couldn't miss it. So I just did some cookies with Ethan and Maddie this year. I think they had fun. We made the cookies one day and then decorated them the next. That is why there is an outfit change in the pictures. And yes...we are still in our PJ's. Because we have no where to go...so we wear our PJ's when we feel like it. Those who judge...are just jealous hehe.

Sneaking bites of the dough...

O Christmas Tree

We had so much fun getting our tree. Each year as Ethan gets older all of these traditions become so much more fun. I can't remember having so much fun getting tree and decorating it. I am fairly certain Isaac thinks it's cruel punishment to put all sorts of balls hanging on a tree in the house and not let him play with it lol. But he is actually doing better than I thought. A few minutes ago I found him laying under the tree haha.

Snack Time

Isaac is constantly getting himself into all sorts of trouble. This boy loves to get into things and see what he can find. The other day I was doing the dishes and turned to see what he was doing and saw this. I think he enjoyed himself.

Thanksgiving Festivities

Thanksgiving was a lot of fun this year. Last year we spent half the day with Jon's family and half the day with my family. This year Jon and I decided we didn't want to drive around going from house to house. It's very hard for Isaac because he takes two naps still so we invited everyone over to our house. It was very nice because I didn't have to bake two sets of everything. Just one! Well except the rolls haha. I make homemade rolls which people have been known to fight over. I was distracted and majorly burned the first set. Luckily I had made them early in the day so I had time to make another batch!

Everyone came over after lunch and we played for a bit then put the kids down for a nap. While the kids napped the girls worked on making ornament wreathes I found on pinterest. It was a lot of fun. You will never guess what the guys did. ;) FOOTBALL. My cousin came for Thanksgiving too. I haven't seen her in 9.5 years since our wedding. It was great to see her, even if it was for only 3.5 hours haha. After dinner we had Gingerbread houses for the kids to make, which was a hit.

I have so much to be thankful for and everyday I thank God for all my blessings.