Aaaaaahhhh Snow Days....

The perfect day to sit by the fire, sipping hot tea and reading my book! 

OOOOOOOHHH Wait! What's that you say? What about your 2 kids? Oh yea, so probably scratch the book reading.

Unless you consider this a page-turner

Snow days these days consist of much more interesting activities: 

Trashing the playroom

Puzzle working

Sword fighting

And even more puzzles! 

Yes, my days of relaxing and napping at my own leisure, working a puzzle of my own, or binge watching shows on dvr are definitely gone. But these kind of snow days are full of so much more fun and play and love! Love that I can look back at how things USED to be before kids, and know that although those days were nice....THESE are the days I live for!

These Two

I mean, do they have any choice but to be best buddies??? I think not! They are together at school, together on the days we're off of school, and anytime we're not together they ask when we can see each other again! It's not like an arranged marriage or anything (yet) but for now they truly love hanging out! 

Pajama day at school

It's not like we've brainwashed them or anything...they've only been hanging out since they were about 5 days old 

Feels like Christmas

 Decorating our house for the holiday season has always been one of my favorite things to do! A new house means a whole new ballgame when trying to pick the best places for things to go. I think we did pretty good for our first year!

Library Tree

Living Room Tree

I always have to photograph my wrapping for the year! 

Merry Christmas!

My 30th Birthday!

Wait a second...Im 30? Im freakin old!

Im late posting about this fun night out with my fave people because I have been so busy being old.

When we were younger, Lyndsie and I celebrated many birthdays together. We combined our parties because our birthdays were only 5 days apart. It's been several years since we've done that, and we thought for our 30th, we should definitely bring back the combined birthdays!

Lyndsie and I spent the entire day on Saturday hanging out like the old days. We went to lunch at the Mont and had swirls, then had facials and massages. Last on our list was pedicures, then we headed home to get ready for our evening out with friends. We had dinner at Flips with about 30 of our friends,  and then had a great night out! It meant so much to us to have so many wonderful friends and family there to celebrate the two us getting old.

Christmas Day - Last One I swear!

We had a wonderful Christmas morning with the boys! They were so excited to open their gifts and have pigs in a blanket and snuggle and watch the Christmas parade on TV. 

Later that morning, we headed to Nana and Papa's house to spend the day with them! We had some great dinner, opened gifts, and played all afternoon with their new toys! The boys were, once again, spoiled with so many great toys, and wanted to open them all right then! 

He's about to blink, but I wanted to post the pic anyway

Helping Papa open a gift

Crew with Great Grandpa Ozzie

We love the holidays and are sad that they are over, but we have some great memories to last us until next year!

Can we Freeze Time this Xmas Eve?

No seriously...I can't take it! Can everyone stay the exact age they are right now and just re-live this wonderful season every day of the week? I am loving the ages of Gav and Crew way too much right now, and their innocence on their faces and pure joy at all the fun things we've done.

Christmas Eve night at our house is something Eric feels so strongly about being just US, and no plans or interruptions. We get jammies on and watch Christmas movies, have hot chocolate and they get to open one gift. That gift just so happened to be some character pajamas with matching house shoes. I am such a picture taker so I tried really hard to get some good pics in front of the tree, and at first, Gavin didn't want to be in them. So Crew did a solo shoot! 

But when his brother joined him, you can just see the happiness on little Crew Bear's face. He lives for his brother...

 Crew 20 months, Lexi 9 1/2 years old, Gavin 3 yrs 1 month 

Christmas Eve Fun!

Christmas Eve morning, I decided that we needed to make Christmas cookies ONE MORE TIME before the big day! Every time we made them over the past week we kept eating them all rather than saving any for Santa. So I invited Megan and Kyler, Steph and Memphis, and Liz and Liam over to join the fun! The younger two pretty much just ate cookies, but Gavin, Kyler and Liam all took their cookie decorating seriously. It was so cute to see how excited they were to make the ones for Santa

Then in the afternoon, we went over to the Blackburn's house to have Christmas with my dad. I guess it was craziness bc I have almost no pics of that entire afternoon. But we all had a great day. The kids got so many fun toys to play with, and we all had fun trying them out together. 

Love this pic!