Babies' Room

Dustin had last week off, so we got to have him home. :)  This means he finally had a chance to put the nursery furniture together.  Along with some other little projects back there.

 Notice all the help Dustin got putting together the cribs. :)

 View from the door

 It's definitely not a large room, so for now this crib is sitting in front of half of the closet.

The other side of the room.  

There's definitely still some finishing touches left to do on the room like bedding, wall stuff, and maybe some new curtains.  But I'm really happy with the way it turned out.  I go back there and just grin. :)  There really are 2 babies coming! :)

Merry Christmas

A few highlights from our Christmas day.  We were reminded again this year how very blessed we are with so many wonderful family and friends to spend Christmas with.

 Doing stockings on Mommy and Daddy's bed.  We actually woke them up this year, so we'd have plenty of time before church.

 Santa brought the boys a Spiderman playset with all the guys and vehicles to go with it.

 Connor trying out the new Tag Jr. reader.

 Ooo, big box!

 New parking garage for the cars

 Spiderman web shooter!

 Trying out the new LeapPad

 The four of us after lunch at Dustin's Grandma's

 Stockings with Grandma

 Fun, Zippity game system.

 My Grandpa made the boys a sled for Christmas. 

 Connor and Great Grandma playing with the MagnaDoodle

The boys playing playdough with their Great Grandparents.  Not sure who had more fun... :)

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was spent together as a family, just enjoying the day.  We spend the morning in our jammies, just being a family. After lunch and naps we got ready and headed out for the day's plans.  Our first stop was the fire station a couple blocks away.  We often walk by this station in the summer and admire the fire trucks, and started a new tradition last year by taking cookies to the firemen on Christmas Eve.  So we talked to the boys about taking the cookies to the firemen to thank them for keeping us safe and working on Christmas Eve.  Of course they both clammed up when we got there and wouldn't say a word to the nice man who answered the door, but Nathan did at least hand him the plate of cookies.

From there, we headed to Dustin's folks for our Christmas with them.  Some highlights of the rest of our Christmas Eve: 

Very cool hotwheels track!

 Oh boy, Cars slippers!

 Nathan making a goofy face, wearing his Spiderman slippers.

 The boys at home, opening their new jammies for Christmas Eve.  I went against my usual tendencies and did not buy Christmas themed, or matching this year.  They were both thrilled with my choices though!

Sporting the new jammies, the boys head out front to leave carrots for the reindeer.

Christmas Movies

Dustin came up with the fun idea of doing a Christmas "movie" every night after bath/before bed this week.  So here's the boys tonight snuggled in watching "A Charlie Brown Christmas"

Merry Christmas!

Cheese!

My handsome boys

Christmas craft

The boys doing a little painting for a little Christmas project.

Techy boys

Playing games on Daddy's phone and tablet

Growin'

28 weeks

Happy Birthday Dad

Last Saturday (12/3) was Dad's birthday.  We all got together for a nice supper out.

Breakfast with Santa

Our church had a breakfast with Santa again this year.  The boys both had a blast.

 Yummy Pancakes!

 The Big Guy has arrived!

 Playing a ring toss game

 Dustin helped Nathan make his frame

 Connor enjoying a sucker he got from another game

 Nathan chatting with Santa (that's as close as Connor would get!)  

 I was really hoping to get a picture of them together in their cute sweaters.  Here, they were too busy eating/drinking. :)

 Making shrinky dink ornaments

 He wouldn't go anywhere near Santa, but he did say, "Thank you" for the candy cane. :)

 Eating candy canes and checking out the nativity

Cheese!

Dinosaur Cookies

Nathan got some dinosaur cookie cutters for his birthday.  So of course, we had to make some dinosaur cookies this week!

Christmas trees

 Using cotton balls to paint Christmas tree shapes

Nathan decorating his tree.  Connor was done sitting at this point. :)

First Snow

So it started snowing and Nathan desperately wanted to go out and play in it.  So, we did. :)

 Nathan really wanted to wear his new snow pants.  We told him there wasn't that much snow and that he'd be ok in regular pants.  So, of course, the first thing he does is lay down in the snow. :)

Little elves

The boys helping me decorate the tree last weekend.