Merry Christmas

This Christmas was so much more fun than last Christmas. We weren't stopping every hour and a half to feed bottles and the kids could open their own gifts.

Our holiday celebration began Christmas eve at my parents house. After dinner and Christmas Eve service the kids opened their first Christmas presents. Their favorite was the cowboy hats and boots. Dylan especially loves his as you will see at the bottom of the blog.

Chirstmas morning at our house. We aren't at the wake up early age yet, thank goodness, so the kids got up at their normal time of 8 and we came out into the living room to see what Santa brought. He brought them plush rocking horses and real felt cowboy hats like daddy. The boys got mega blocks and Hayla got a new baby doll

Then we opened the presents from Mommy and Daddy. We got them Sesame Street fold out couches, clothes ( their first pair of wrangler jeans), and little fire engines to ride around the house on. They loved tearing open the packages.

Next it was time to celebrate with the rest of the family. We had breakfast with my mom's family and opened stockings and presents there.

Here are the kids opening their mega blocks truck and wagon.


And here they are trying out their four wheelers.

Then we went to Shane's family for the rest of the day. Here they got bean bag chairs and a tool bench.

Needless to say the kids were Christmased out by the end of the day and so were dad and I,but we couldn't be more thankful for the time spent with our family. We hope your holiday was just as wonderful.

Here is my little cowboy. As you can see Dylan loved his hat and boots.

Our Christmas Train and Tree

Shane's mom gave the kids her old Christmas Train to play with. So Shane set it up around the tree. We weren't sure how well it was going to work, but amazingly enough the kids didn't mess with it too much. Sure they accidently knocked it off the track here and there but that was about it.

They loved having a tree in the livingroom. They helped us decorate it. We put all of the breakable ornaments up on top and then ornaments that were okay for them to touch we put at the bottom. They did really well jsut looking at the tree. Every now and then someone would bring us an ornament that they had taken off but that was it.

The Christmas Season is Upon Us

It is amazing to look back at pictures from last year and see how much the babies have grown and changed. Last year Shane and I were in survival mode now we can actually enjoy and play with the kids. Everyone is growing and talking and beginning to develop their own interests.

Hayla is adding new words to her vocabulary each day. This week she started to sing her ABC's well she only gets ABC out and then it is a bunch of babble. She loves her baby dolls and is such a good mommy to them.

Clayton says a few words and will sometimes try and repeat a few sound from words we say here and there. He is a tool man. If there is a tool being used he is there and wants to help. Shane and my uncle even taught him to grunt like the tool man.

Dylan says a few words and tries to repeat a few sounds as well. He too is a tool man. He loves to help out when Shane is doing work. He is also at the stage of pointing to anything and saying "uh" because he wants to know what it is.

We are really looking forward to Christmas this year it is going to be so much fun.

A great Thanksgiving

I hope eveyone had a great Thanksgiving we sure did. There is nothing like being with family to celebrate the holidays. The kids ate turkey and dressing and cranberry sauce and oh of course pumpkin pie. They loved the pumpkin pie.

Here we are having some pre dinner fun. Where we live there are a few trees but we have so much wind that leaves don't last long. Here at my aunt and uncle's house they have lots of oak trees and lots of leaves. They babies had so much fun playing in them.

The boys took to it right away, miss Hayla on the other hand took a little bit to warm up to the idea. They were throwing them and crunching them and giggling.

Getting ready for Turkey Day!

The kids love to help no matter what it is but there are a few things that particularly interest them. The day before Thanksgiving we were helping get food ready and Hayla was our little cook, she stirred and crumbled the cornbread for stuffing. The boys on the other hand helped their Papa fix the stove.