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!

Christmas Cookies

Every year we have our friends over to decorate gingerbread houses

This year we decided to decorate cookies

The kids had a blast

We want to do this again next year





I think eating the cookies was the best part


I am thankful that I've been friends with some of the girls for over 17 years

And I look forward to many more years of our friendship.

Happy Thanksgiving!

After 7 years of marriage, we finally made it to Louisville to visit Christian's sister, husband, and our niece. Whew! We always had what we felt was a valid excuse. The first 2 years of marriage I taught so we really only traveled in the summer and that's when we went to the beach. Christian couldn't take off too much time in the summer so there went another year. Then we had Jack, and who wants to travel with a baby for 12 hours?! Then we had Cooper, and again, who wants to travel with a baby for 12 hours? Finally, after 7 years, we felt ready. And I am so glad we went and I don't want to wait even half that long to go again.

We drove to my brother's house in Jackson and slept there. We left at 4AM the next morning and were there by 3. The kids were awesome in the car. Thank God!

We had such a great time visiting my sister-in-law and brother-in-law. The kids were in heaven being with Lilly. Jack even got to sleep in her room upstairs and he loved it. Cooper slept with us in the basement...which means there were 2 flights of stairs. Cooper was in his own little heaven too! We couldn't keep that boy from running and jumping off the stairs. We just might have to blame awesome Uncle Dan for that one! Uncle Dan also baked cookies with the kids, so as far as Coop is concerned there is no better than Uncle Dan!

Thanksgiving Day was spent at Kentucky Downs. We had a traditional Thanksgiving dinner and watch a bunch of races. Jack and Coop got to learn how to bet...great...they picked the horses they wanted off of the coolness of their names. Monkey Toes was a fan favorite and that is how our elf got named Monkey Toes.

We had an awesome Thanksgiving and we can't wait to go back!


Christmas time together

Wrestling with Lilly

Jack loves Lilly so much!