Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

I'm skipping a lot of posts because, frankly, I am ready to be caught up. So here goes Christmas!

Jack and Coop were SO MUCH FUN this year! Coop was excited, but Jack truly was out of this world excited, and we loved it! He is into all things Christmas, Santa Claus, and the Elf on the Shelf. We had a great month with Monkey Toes. He kept the boys on their toes (not really) with good behavior and kept Christian and I on are toes with making sure Monkey Toes remembered to move. We might have been caught once, but we told Jack he woke up too early and had to go back to bed!

Christmas Eve day was spent at Christian's parents house where we had a good time visiting with them. The afternoon even ended with their neighbor backing his Hummer into the back of my car :( But we were all so excited about Christmas it couldn't dampen our spirits. (But when the other neighbor backed into Christian's the 2nd week of January it all became quite comical!)

We had our family over Christmas Eve night and even had our traditional visit from Santa Claus. Jack was amazed that Santa came and couldn't get enough of him. Coop tried to get outside the whole time so he could check on Santa's reindeers. Oh how I love sweet children and their faith during this time!














We put the boys to bed around 9:30 and then quickly went and woke up Jack. We forgot to put cookies out for Santa and the reindeer food in the front lawn. I guess Coop will participate next year!


Coop woke at 7:30 and we actually had to go wake up Jack at 8 because WE were so excited to see their faces.



The look on Jack's face was priceless!

The boys had a blast ripping open their presents.


Jack automatically held up each opened gift and smiled with it. He was either very proud or well-trained...or a little of both!


Merry Christmas sweet boys!

A couple of pics was even taken of Christian and me.


My favorites were my awesome Hunter boots and a Kindle Touch. Thanks honey!

We went to my parents house so we could have a 2nd Christmas! Gigi and Poppy spoiled everyone rotten...as usual.






My boys got a really cool Jeep that they love to drive. Christian has brain washed the boys into thinking that Jeep's are the coolest cars ever.

Christmas lunch was at my parents also.

Yummy!

We had a great Christmas with our 2 boys!

Happy 4th of July

Being in the middle of potty training Cooper, we were disappointed about having to skip all of the 4th of July parties. Coop was doing so swell that we decided to try to make a couple since we were on our last day of training. Thankfully Cooper had no accidents at the parties. He even decided to poop on the potty for the very first time at the Rusich's! Lucky us and lucky them because they had a plunger handy! We had fun swimming and watching fire works. My boys loved being around the triplets and Braeleigh. I am so glad there are some many little children around now when we get together. :)



Jack, Cooper, Reiss, Halie, Madison, Braeleigh

Braeleigh and Cooper hiding out inside during fireworks

Next was a party at the Hoefeld's. We had a great time celebrating with our family and hanging out in the pool all day. My boys had a blast and they love swimming and playing with their favorite Nellie Bellie!








Thanks to our sweet neighbors Dave and Sue, we finished off the night doing sparklers with the boys. They were a little scared but still had fun.

What a great 4th!