Christmas Vacation...

We had some much fun over the Christmas holiday! We got to see all our family and even some of our good friends that we hadn't seen in a while. There was a lot of driving over the vacation, but it was all absolutely worth it. We left right before Oklahoma got hit with a blizzard, and we were so glad we missed it by a day!

Here are some pictures of the kids over the Christmas vacation.

I of course am a little biased... but I think the boys both look adorable in the Santa hat!!

Gibson got a Lighting McQueen 4 wheeler for Christmas from Santa, and it was an absolute HIT! He loves it and drives it around the house with his legs up in the air as fast as it will go! It is so terribly cute, I will catch it on the camcorder as soon as I get it back from leaving it in Texas!

Chad actually seemed somewhat interested in unwrapping gifts... I didn't think he would care at all. It was precious seeing him react to his new toys. He is already getting so big!

Chad and his second cousin Avery are only 2 weeks apart... Avery is older but Chad definitely outweighs her... heck he outweighs some 1 year olds! I think we have a VERY big boy on our hands. Aren't the two of them just precious? I loved getting to finally meet Avery over Christmas... she is absolutely adorable, and so sweet and cuddly. I wanted to hold her more! And her little velvet skirt was too cute! :)

Our little family with my Great Grandmother... She is over 90 years old... She is SUCH an amazing woman!!

Another picture with Great Grandmother, along with my sister Jennifer and her son Jaxon, and my brother Steven. My mom mentioned how funny it is that all the little kids are not in the best of moods at this point in the visit. If they are even looking at the camera then they aren't happy about it. hahaha... and I love Jaxon's face... he looks like we were FORCING him to smile. :)

Chadder Bug during his bath in the sink... (I got a photo shop over Christmas and I have loved trying it out!)

Another bath time picture of my precious little Bug!

If everything else we got for Christmas wasn't enough... Gerod (my wonderful hubby) got me a trip to NYC then a 7 day cruise of the Easter Caribbean!!! So excited about that!!

After getting back from Christmas Gerod and I celebrated our 5 year wedding anniversary! Can you believe we have already been married for 5 years? We went out on a date... kid free thanks to our amazing baby sitter... to Carinos for dinner and then a movie. The movie was not as good as I expected (Invictus), we just couldn't get into it. So when we came home we threw on some pjs and curled up on the couch with a glass of wine and watched Gran Torino... AWESOME movie, minus some of the language. Needless to say it was a great anniversary with my amazing husband!!

Needless to say we had a wonderful holiday! I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year... ours was wonderful!

Happy New Year!

This year has been amazing! Gibson is one year older... a big boy at 2 years old! We also added to the family with our precious Chadder Bug who is now just over 5 months old. I cant believe how much we have been blessed with, but we are beyond thankful.

At this moment I sit in my living room... the only person awake in the house. Gibson and Chad were down for the count around 9:30 and Gerod has been in and out of consciousness since 10:00.

So here I am... on the computer... as usual. I am watching the only thing on tv at this very moment... New Years parties in New York and Las Vegas. We had an invite to a big New Years Eve bash at some friends house, but we were a little late in looking for a sitter so instead decided to spend New Years as a family.

Maybe next year I wont be the only one in the house awake to ring in the New Year.

Happy New Year everyone... May 2010 be as good as 2009!

Tis The Season

We went shopping today, and I hope I remember the madness next year and do all my shopping much earlier. There were WAY to many people out and about getting their last minute Christmas gifts, and we still had half our list of people to buy for. We only lack two more gifts now, and then I have to wrap everything before we visit the family for Christmas. Needless to say I hope I don't procrastinate this much next year!

I cant wait to see our family and friends over this next week! It should be a wonderful time!!

ClAsSiC!

After a little bit of editing I had to share this picture one more time!

Silly, Sleepy Chadder Bug!

Chad looked like he was ready to hit the slopes this morning after Daddy got him ready to leave the house. How cute is he in that hat and those glasses?Chad has gotten big enough to use the jumper now, and in the past few days has figured out how to jump. He gets so excited we sometimes think he could just jump out of the thing! This afternoon he bounced so much he fell asleep. We were watching him jump all over the place and as we watched he got slower and slower, and finally fell into a daze and then slumped over and started sleeping. Before we took him out to lay him down we got a couple snapshots!

Santa, cookies, and tears... Oh my!

On Saturday we took the boys to a local cookie shop to have milk and cookies with Santa. As you will soon see, Santa was not the hit of the party!

Chad was quite upset at first, but we got him to calm down in Santa's lap just long enough to get a pretty decent picture...

Gibson was a completely different story... poor kid was not liking Santa at all!!!

We thought he might show some interest in the reindeer bells Santa showed him, but that didn't work either.

The crying ceased once we introduced the milk and cookies though. This cookie shop was AMAZING. Big shortbread stocking cookies for all the kids with a small milk to wash it down with. They do cookies for all sorts of parties, including baby showers, birthdays, holiday get togethers and so much more. They also have some pretty good cookies you can buy individually.

Yummy!

Later on Saturday afternoon we tried another Santa at the mall. NOPE! That one didn't have the magic touch either. We thought this one would be different because Gibson seemed very excited to see him, but as soon as he got in his lap he threw a fit! Hopefully next year he will be a little more calm around the big red guy!

I kind of felt like we were torturing him... Chad was sleeping so we decided not to wake him up for the second set of pictures since the first ones were so traumatic.

Needless to say I think the boys will be happy to not have their pictures taken with Santa again anytime soon. :) However we may have to take pictures with our very own Santa... the boys great grandpa back in Texas who we call "Ho Ho"

Fun on the floor

Chad loves being on the floor in all the action. He just recently learned how to roll over from his back to his stomach (he is still working on stomach to back). He loves playing on his play mat the most because of all the bright lights, music, and hanging toys! Sometimes Chad has just a little TOO much fun... I have caught him

falling asleep on several occasions! Too precious! Love it!