Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Holidays...get ready for some pictures!

I'd have to say this holiday season has been by far my favorite! Hayden is at the perfect age where he is excited about it all and that just made Christmas so much more fun for us as parents to watch. We kicked off the holidays with his preschool program/party. It was super fun to watch all their adorable songs they had for us and they gave us super cute gifts (homemade calendar), as well as Hayden got a fun new book and Clifford ornament from Linda and Lori for Christmas. The kids were all super cute! They did a cookie swap as well which was fun to bring home a bunch of different cookies! I just love Punkin Seed and am so glad Hayden gets the chance to go there! The teachers are fabulous and Hayden constantly tells me who his friends are and asks if he's going to school almost every day. I love that he is so excited about it!

Here's all the details!!


Singing some songs



Teacher Lori & Hayden
Teacher Linda & Hayden (thanks for not looking buddy!)
Checking out the cute calendar Hayden made!




The next holiday get together was at my parents house with all the grandparents, my uncle and cousins, and my brother and nephew. Justin had duty on Christmas so we were lucky enough to do Christmas with him the weekend before because he also happened to have Colton. We love the time we get to spend with that little guy and only wished it was more often! I've never seen 3 cousins who look more alike than my boys and Justin's. They are so cute and fun together!
Colton and Austin
Hayden and Cooper (my cousin/Hayden's 2nd cousin)
3 cute little toe heads in their matching pj's

Austin loves his new slide from Nana
The closest we could get to a pic of them together. So funny cause my dad was laying down on ground to take a pic and so Austin copied him...that boy is so funny!
Colton watching Hayden play games
So concentrated



Moving on was the Beaver's bowl game...which was a total letdown for sure! Guess we will hope for better next year! I didn't take many pictures but I did happen to get a cute shot of the boys all in their jerseys!
How cute would that be if Hayden was looking!!




On Christmas Eve morning we did some fun things with the boys. While Austin was napping we did a gingerbread house with Hayden. He loved it and took his time placing each piece of candy on it. Then I baked yet another batch of sugar cookies (#5 I believe for this season) and the boys decorated some more. It was Austin's first time decorating a cookie...very messy! But he had fun!

Hayden and his masterpiece

Not quite sure at first
The more frosting, the better Hayden thinks





Christmas Eve was spent with Ryan's family and it was great. We had dinner and opened presents. Hayden and Austin of course scored once again...super spoiled kiddos! I didn't take many pictures because Ryan did a lot of videoing.
This kid is always the center of attention...
Silly boys
Hayden and Grandma Debbie
His new thing to be silly is to close his eyes during a picture...so annoying! :)
Austin trying out Hayden's new hat.




Christmas morning Austin was up bright and early but Hayden had plans of sleeping in. We had set up their "Santa" gift the night before and we didn't want Austin going out before Hayden so we tried to wake Hayden up. He wasn't having it and kept rolling his face into the pillow. Finally we got him out and they came out to see what they got. They were super excited! We spent the day with my parents. We cooked breakfast and then mom and I made a huge turkey dinner. It was so nice and relaxing to just stay home and let the boys play with all their new stuff and play games.
Mr. Bright eyes ready to go!
This kid however was not so ready yet...
Santa brought them a train set/table
They loved it!



Like I said...center of attention all the time! He's so silly!
A few nights later we had some friends over for games. Papa was holding Dylan and someone got a little jealous!
Now he's happy to have his papa to himself!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

It's the holiday season!

We've been super busy these days trying to gear up for Christmas. We did our annual trip to the snow to cut down our tree but sadly it was too cold to trek around much so we weren't successful! I think this is the first time this has happened. It was when it was freezing here, making it even colder up on the mountain. So we ended up at good old Poor Richards getting our tree. We've got it up and decorated thanks to all Hayden's help. He absolutely had a blast putting ornaments on the tree and is super excited this year which makes it really fun. We finally get to use "Santa" to keep him on good behavior. :) This was our first year we have taken the kids to Storybook Land and they loved it. We went with Lins, Ryan, and Dylan. Hayden was especially into it and wanted his picture taken next to each exhibit, while Austin just pointed at everything and ran around. It was too cute! Austin hates Santa and has freaked out both times he's seen him. It's funny though because he always points to him on TV and says "Santa." What a great free holiday event to attend with your kiddos. After Storybook Land we had Lins and the boys over for dinner and cookie baking. Lins and I baked sugar cookies with Hayden and it was so much fun for Hayden. He got to cut them all out and definitely enjoyed decorating them...loves sprinkles! We attempted at our Christmas card picture with our boys and needless to say it went as expected. At least we got a good picture of each of them even if not together, that we were able to use. I got Hayden, Austin, and Dylan matching Xmas pj's and we tried to get a picture of all 3 together but I think we waited too long into the evening when they were all tired and restless. Oh well, we still got 10 days to try right? :) Here's some pics of our holiday fun we've been having:


Up in the snow
Spongebob!
Such a ham
Watching the trains go by
My sweet boy
Austin would prefer not to see Santa...
Our attempt at a pic of us 4
Tummy time with Dylan
Hayden loves his Dylan
3 of the cutest boys ever!
Hayden trying out the bumbo
Attempt #1
Still not working...
Mr. Cheeser
Baking cookies
2 adorable little boys!!