Merry Christmas

We had such an great Christmas. Christmas is so magical with little kids. We spent Christmas Eve with Mike's family and then Christmas day it was just us and we stayed home. Daddy had to leave for work at 1pm, so we did all the present opening and as much playing with Daddy as we could before he had to leave. Then the boys and I just played played played all day. They were pretty excited that they didn't even have to take a nap on Christmas.

Silly boys at Grandma & Grandpas for Christmas Eve lunch


Our fam taking our turn with the traditional family pics in front of Great Grandma & Grandpa's huge tree, train and village.


The boys are always so in awe of Great Grandma & Grandpa's Christmas decor


When I was growing up my parents let us open one gift on Christmas Eve and is was always jammies. My mom still sends us our Christmas Eve jammies each year. The boys loved their Monster Jam pjs.


Ready for Santa


Santa brought new dirt bike boots!


Santa brought a bbq grill



So many precious memories made!

Happy Birthday, Jesus!

We made a birthday cake for Jesus this week. I can explain the number candles.... no normal candles in the house, can't sing and blow out candles with nothing, so last resort was to dig out all the number candles we had. It worked and the boys loved it.



Merry Christmas!!

My Handsome Little Men

I took some pics in our backyard of the boys about a month ago. I was attempting to get some good shots for the grandparents for Christmas. We only have a point and shoot camera, but I think they turned out cute. And now that all the family received their Christmas cards I can share some fun pics of my handsome little ones.

Not So Wordless Wednesday

Jason is making so much progress with his speech. It seems like just over the last couple weeks he has started talking so much. It's to the point where I couldn't count how many words he has anymore. For the longest time he only had maybe 5... seriously, that's it.

I am so in love with his adorable little voice. Of course, it isn't the clearest yet, but we understand him and just seeing him try is so awesome. I am so thankful that the tubes he had put in his ears were effective and that we are finally seeing the outcome we prayed and hoped for.



It just makes me so happy to be able to talk with my boy.

We did it!

Two months ago my friend Rachel and I decided we were going to start running with the goal of a 5k in December. After lots of running over the last 8 or so weeks we were ready for our first race which was this morning.



It was a trail run through beautiful Sanbourn Park in Saratoga. We definitely underestimated how tough a trail run would be and how steep the hills were. But... we did it and it was so exciting to cross that finish line.



We both placed 8th in our age groups. Can't wait for the next one!

Wordless Wednesday

Christmas Partaaay!

We had a blast at the Christmas Dinner Dance put on by Mike's work. This is our second year going and it is definitely a new tradition with our friends.

We enjoyed lots of laughs, a beautiful venue, yummy food and of course a night away with no kiddos. I always look forward to getting away over night with Mike simply because that means we get to sleep in! Not so much this time... We were woken up by the front desk calling to tell us that they have to turn off the water on our side of the hotel and they wanted to let us know in case we were still sleeping. Seriously?!?!

Despite the not so fun wake up call, we had an awesome time and I can't wait until next year!

Late Thanksgiving and Pretty Tree

I did not mean to totally skip over a Thanksgiving and the whole "what I am thankful for post." We did have a wonderful Thanksgiving with Mike's family. We also had a great time in Santa Maria the weekend after visiting my family. The sad part is I brought my camera to Santa Maria and then realized I left my memory card in my laptop at home, so no fun pics from all the fun we had on that trip. On Thanksgiving day I didn't take very many pics because we were too busy having fun and playing BINGO. Fail for me... I love having pics with my posts.

So I will redeem myself (and make my mom happy to see pics of the boys) and share pics of us choosing our tree last night.











I loved waking up and smelling our beautiful tree. Happy December!!