Christmas Day 2012

We woke up Christmas morning and had a few hours to let Brennen open his gifts at home and to take it easy before we headed over to Ryan's parent's house to have Christmas with them.

Opening his gift from his Great Nana

Money! B loves to put $$ in his piggy bank!



Brennen with all his gifts...love that smile!

After we showered and got ready, it was time to head over to Nana & Papa's house to have Christmas with Ryan's family.

Do you think these boys are spoiled?!

Opening stockings



Sarah & Chris

All ready to open gifts

Landon with his gifts

Caden with all his gifts

Brennen's kitchen was a big hit!

We had such an amazing Christmas and are so blessed to have such wonderful families!

Christmas Eve 2012

Christmas was so wonderful this year.  Brennen was really into all the decorations, presents, Santa, etc. We started out our Christmas Eve by opening gifts with my family.

Brennen with all his Mickey Mouse characters!

Having breakfast and scratching our lottery tickets from our stockings!

The painting B made Grandma & Grandpa (thanks Pinterest)!

B helped us open our gifts too. Here he has my iPhone case and some cheese Daddy got. He was having a sample!

Boulevard gift packages my Mom made for the boys!

More trains to go with his train table my parents have for him

Dustin with his KU gear

We accidentally left this gift at Grandma & Grandpa's house ;)

We headed home after opening all our gifts and put B down for his nap. Then we headed back over to my parent's house to have dinner with the rest of my family. 

My handsome boy!

Love my little family!

The kid's table (Avery, Carson & Brennen)

Group shot (We missed Kevin, Sheila & Baby Shane. Shane was getting over RSV and wasn't supposed to be around many people.)

Leaving cookies out for Santa

We finally made it home and put Brennen to bed around 10:30pm.  It was a long day, but Brennen had a blast and was such a good boy!  He was very excited for Santa to come and to open more gifts the next day!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it SNOW!

On Thursday, December 20th it snowed for the first time this season.  Ryan had a snow day and I had the day off so we decided to take Brennen out to play in the snow.  We didn't stay out very long but I don't think Brennen was a big fan of the snow!

He looked excited at first!

Then he fell and it was all over :(

We tried playing on the slide...

Daddy made a snow angel

but he was done! 

It was extremely windy and cold, so I don't blame him for being upset.  Hopefully next winter he will be ready to go sledding with Daddy!

Brennen 20 Months Old

Brennen is 20 months old today. It is so hard to believe that in 4 short months he will be TWO years old!  How is this possible??  He is such a wonderful baby and a joy to be around.  He lights up our world!  

A few things about this time I want to remember are:

- You are putting words together all the time and try to talk in sentences.

- You repeat everything we say!

- You are growing taller everyday. ( I can tell b/c your pants are turning into high waters!)

- You know what you want and will throw a fit when you don’t get your way.

- Uncle Dustin cut your hair short this month and I love it!

- You went to see Santa for the first time this year and you screamed and cried when you sat on his lap.

- You are a very caring boy. You will snuggle with your stuffed animals (especially your dog Browny).

- You are still in 18 month clothes, size 6 shoes and size 4 diapers.

I love you more and more everyday my sweet boy!

Back in Business!

Well, thanks to another blog I follow who was going through the same thing, I figured out a way around not being able to upload any pics!  I just had to log in as another user. So we are back :)

Here's some of what we have been up to since my last post...

You can always find B watching Mickey EVERY chance he gets!

We have to make sure he does other activities so he's not glued to the TV

We helped Grandma & Grandpa decorate their tree with some help from Uncle Chris

B showing me his ornament with Santa!

I bought B the little people nativity scene and decided to have it set up one day after his nap. His favorites are Baby Jesus and the Donkey!

B got another early Christmas gift...he must be a really good boy!

Thanks Auntie Kay! We love it :)

This is B rocking his dog Browny!

Family dinner at Hibachi...B loved the ice cream and cried at the first fire that shot up.

Baby Shane is at Children's Mercy with RSV, so we went to visit him. Poor baby!

He got quite comfy and finally fell asleep in my mom's arms!

This week we are busy getting prepared for Christmas.  We have our first Christmas tomorrow night, then our cookie decorating party on Thursday with all the kids.  Should be a fun week, but I still can't believe Christmas is a week from today!