Thank you GG and GGPA

This post is for GG and GGPA who are out of town. We want to say a big thank you for Sophia and Kenton's gifts...THEY LOVE THEM!!!

  I caught this moment perfectly...She was cheering and saying, "These are the games I wanted!!!!" (in a high and excited voice).

TA-DA!

Kenton had to use his new tools to help put it together:)

 THANK YOU GG AND GGPA...WE LOVE OUR GIFTS!!!!

Christmas Morning

LOOK WHAT SANTA BROUGHT!!!

TJ even got a toy to play with...
AFTER BREAKFAST WE HEADED TO MY PARENT'S HOUSE...

Christmas Eve at the Brown's

TJ's parents do not always feel that decorating for Christmas is a big deal, so I herass them every year, but this year they did a wonderful job. I had to take pictures to document this occasion, hehe. Look Cindy even wrapped pictures like presents for wall decorations...seriously, this is a big deal;)

 We went over to the Brown's a little early to help with dinner so my kids did a little dancing and wrestling to pass the time!

 Then the cousins showed up! It is so nice that Sophia has cousin's to play with. Can you tell they like each other?

All the Brown grand kids  We've got Quincy, Jackson, Avery, Miles, Sophia, Kenton, Jayden, and Mollie!  A good lookin' bunch of kids.

Here we tried for a group picture, but we are missing Caleb....darn it! Have to photo shop him in.

The cousins pulled names to buy gifts. Quincy was adorable and was so excited to give Kenton his present!!!

Jackson had Sophia's name.

Thank you Aunt Lisa...She gave Sophia a Hello Kitty mini sofa and Kenton some transformers. Just lounging back!

Kenton really got into opening presents which was very fun. He opened these shoes from G-ma/pa Brown and had to put them on and wouldn't take them off:)

Caleb had TJ's name and got him a Bo Jackson's jersey. Can you tell he's a happy boy!

And his baseball number!

 When we got home we had to put out cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer. Kenton was already passed out from the car ride home but we had to have a picture.

 

And off to bed they went so Santa could come!

Sophia's Xmas Dress

This was our X-mas Card Picture (thanks Aunt Sarah for having a beautiful house for our background, hehe).

 Sophia picked out a beautiful X-mas dress and it was even better because it was only $14.99 at Ross and the only one in her size (Nama and her spotted it). Poor Kenton didn't get anything new. He had a red and black sweater vest already with a red, grey, and black collared shirt, so that's what he wore. He looked adorable too. I wanted pictures of them together, but he went down for a nap after church, so Sophia got solo pictures. Enjoy all her poses;)

I just love this girl! (She is getting too big, too fast...tear!)

Xmas Cookies

We went to my parent's house to help make X-mas cookies and of course my kids were extremely helpful! We were all covered in flour! The gingerbread men/women are my favorite:)

Little hands at work

 Then the next day we went to help frost and decorate the sugar cookies. Kenton frosted his cookie, took a bite of his cookie, frosted his cookie, took a bite of his cookie.....and it went like that till it was gone and then he was done! 

 Miss Sophia had a bit more stamina! She stayed frosting till we were all done. She had quite the beautiful cookies with lots of frosting and sprinkles of all kinds:)

  Before we left my mom gave us our X-mas jammies. Can I tell you that I still love that she does that!!! She always finds the cutest ones and makes sure mine are long enough for me...Love her! These were Kenton's and perfect because he likes Santa (not in person though) and when asked what he says, he would say, "Ho!" only once in a low growly voice.

 Sophia got a fleece night gown with leggings that had reindeer, Santa,  and trees on it. She loved that it was a night gown. Tyler and her had to show theirs off.

And here is Kenton trying to do the same thing as the big kids but of course he laid on his..goof ball!

Thanks Nama for the jammies:)

Let it Snow!

First snow of winter and NO SCHOOL DAY! I definitely did not expect this when I woke up and I did not complain. We played in it right away because I had a feeling it was going to melt fast. 

SNOW ANGEL!

Kenton wasn't too sure of the snow. He would belly laugh when Sophia and I would throw a snowball at him! He stood on the porch watching us and kept yelling at us to look at the snow!

This snow was too wet to actually sled, but I took them on a ride on the boogie board around the neighborhood and Kenton liked that!

Sophia had to have a turn pulling and I was happy to let her:)

We were starting to get wet, so building a snowman was our last snow event of the day. It was a little snowman, but a healthy one..olive eyes, carrot nose, and a red pepper mouth.

This day off school was unexpected and it turned out to be a wonderful surprise. We played in the snow, drank hot chocolate, watched a Xmas movie, and got things done around the house that needed to be done.