Christmas with the Munro's

Christmas Day was spent with the Munro's which was extra special getting to share it with the newest edition to the family, baby Connor! Dare and Braden love love love when their cousins are in town and neither one of them left Lily and Emma's side the whole day. Darren was even more interested in playing with them than opening his gifts! What a great Christmas, thank you so much to everyone for making it an amazing day, we love you all!

Christmas Morning

Christmas morning at our house, despite everyone being sick, was awesome. Darren instantly felt better when he saw a Giant red Angry Bird under the tree! The boys had a lot of fun opening all their gifts and Braden even stopped to help Baron open his gifts. Christmas morning was great, I love watching the look on the boys faces when they saw their presents and the anticipation of them trying to open them up fast to see what it is, a great great Christmas!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was so much fun! We had a great time with the family opening gifts, eating, playing white elephant and even had a taste testing contest between Coke in the holiday white can vs. Coke in the red can. My brother in law Dan swore up and down that he could tell the difference and long story short he could, and so could everyone else.

This was also baby Jaxson's first Christmas and he did wonderfully, not a peep out of him , he is such a good baby.

Thank you to everyone for again spoiling my boys, we love you!

Braden and the Christmas tree

Braden is very busy to say the least these days, just always on the go. We cleverly separated our couches to block the Christmas tree that would at least give us a head start in blocking him because of the time it would take to climb over the couch. This kind of worked until he would only climb there when we were in the other room and then think he was hiding out of our sight (he wasn't). Too too cute to ever be mad at him and he always looks so innocent when he gets caught :)

cookies for Santa

This is really the first year Darren has been into Christmas and understands the concept of Santa. It has been a lot of fun talking to him talk about it and fun to see him looking forward to it so much. Last night we made cookies for Santa, another very exciting Christmas event!

Craft time

We got to play with Lily and Emma today and do crafts them. And meet baby Connor for the first time too, he is gorgeous!

Darren and Braden love when their cousins are in town!!!

"but I caught him!"

So the other day as I was strapping Darren into his car seat leaving Grammy's house, the ice cream man drove by (why is there even an ice cream man driving around December 22nd in 45 degree weather!). Darren instantly was like " ice cream truck, Mommy Sponge Bob ice cream, ice cream truck". Luckily it was driving in the other direction so I told him he was going home and he was driving too fast for us because we weren't even in the car seat completely. He fussed a little but was ok as we drove away.
As luck would have it, the ice cream truck had taken side streets and pulled in front of us a couple blocks up. Darren of course sees him and says "Mommy Mommy ice cream truck". I politely tried to tell him no and that he didn't have anymore ice cream and that's why he was on his way home. Darren, in his super cute little voice, says "but but I caught him Mommy, I caught him" and that's why I had to follow an ice cream truck for almost two miles on the main streets until he went back into a residential neighborhood when I could stop him and I would do it again!

Gingerbread Man Darren

Tim brought home Gingerbread man kits for each boy this weekend and Darren was so excited to do it. He did his on Saturday and of course named him Darren and carried it around with him the rest of the night (which means Baron followed him around the rest of the night). The next day he asked if he could do Braden's and we said yes because Braden is still too little to do crafty stuff. So now we have two gingerbread men with little bites taken out of them, named Darren and Darren 2!

Darren's first movie!

We took Darren to see his first movie in the theaters last night. We saw Alvin and the Chipmunks three, Chipwrecked. We went with The Gardin family and I even made the boys their very own Alvin shirts! Darren did amazing in the theater, his little eyes got so big when the lights went down and the previews started to show. It was so cool to see him realize that it was a giant movie screen in front of us not just a wall! He sat through the entire movie, it probably helped that he adores the first two chipmunk movies.

In retrospect I should have tried to take a picture before all the popcorn, cookies and candy! Dare was so excited after the movie I couldn't get him to sit still for a picture!

Overall, a great experience for our first movie with a toddler.

Santa Picture 2011

The boys did so good with Santa this year, no tears! When Santa asked Dare what he wanted for Christmas he said Angry Birds and he was so excited to get a coloring book from Santa too. Braden was impartial to the whole thing, I was just glad he wasn't crying or reaching for me and Tim.