Christmas Fun

As you can see we finally got the boys to the Mall to see Santa Clause. Of course it was on the 23rd of December when we finally made it there, but they were way excited to see him. Even Cyrus did well talking to him and telling him what he wanted for Christmas.

Cyrus loved his chips Chirstmas Day. Hey, what ever keeps them happy right?


The boys also got quite a few games which they enjoyed playing. It was especially nice to have Justin around to play with.


On Christmas Eve we went to Angela's grandparents where the boys got to play as the 3 wise-men in the nativity along with their cousin Wesley.





Justin's Grandma and Grandpa Grattan were also in town for Christmas and the boys loved seeing them. They especially loved playing with their dogs. They keeping asking for one of their own, but it will be a while before that happens if their mother gets her way.



The boys were so excited Christmas morning and seemed to be very happy with what they received. I guess Santa must have gotten their Christmas letters. They also surprised their parents with sleeping in until 8. That was a very nice Christmas gift to their parents who were awake and ready to open presents before they were.

All around we had a great relaxing Christmas with plenty of food and fun.

Snow Play

The boys have had a lot of fun this year in the snow. They are both finally old enough to play and stay warm and then let me know if they are getting to cold. It has also been fun for Angela to go out and play with them. She enjoys a new type of workout to do. The hardest part for her right now is bending over and she is constantly reminded of that with every kick to the ribs from the little boy inside of her.





The boys have made a couple of new friends in the area. Seth being one of them. He seems to enjoy coming over and laughing and running crazy with the boys. They really had a lot of fun in the snow and look forward to more opportunities to do it again through out this snowy season.

Decorating for Christmas

We got all of our holiday decorations out the day after Thanksgiving and had a blast putting them up together. We did however wait a while to put our ornaments on. We were having company over with plenty of young kids and we didn't want the temptation there.

The boys are getting very excited about Christmas and are literally counting down the days until Christmas. We had to create an advent calendar this year for Quentin. He kept thinking that since we were in December then Christmas would be that first day. He is finally figuring out that we still have some days to go, but looks forward to ripping another chain off of the link. He was also given this really cool 12 days of Christmas nativity picture, where he gets to open a new envelope each day with a new thing to add to his nativity. He wakes each morning excited to open another envelope to see what he gets to do today.

Cyrus seems to be understanding a little bit more each day as well of what Christmas is and what is involved in it. It is so fun to see him realize what is going to happen and to get so excited about it.

Yesterday we were given the opportunity to do some shopping for some boys in our ward. It was so fun to have the boys wander the store looking for the perfect gift to give them. When we mentioned giving gifts to others in need, they got so excited and couldn't wait to go shopping. Every day they would ask, "Can we go buy the gift today mom." So we had a great time doing this and were excited to teach our kids the importance of giving and helping others in need. We hope to do this every year with them.

We also just got plenty of snow today and I will hopefully have some fun pictures to put up for you soon. The boys had a lot of fun making a snowman and a big fort.

Thanksgiving fun

So I am a little late in getting our Thanksgiving photos up since it is almost Christmas. But things have been a bit crazy and busy around here.
We had a lot of fun at Justin's parents and the boys got to play with their second cousins.
Their aunt Jena is all about doing crafts and got the kids well involved in it. They made the fun candy turkeys that you see here and then she helped them all make fun hats to wear. The boys did really well with dinner and were in pretty good spirits even with missing nap time.
We played plenty of games and relaxed as much as we possibly could with crazy energetic kids.