Christmas!

We had our first Christmas at home this year! It was so fun being home - although I love being with family too! But we enjoyed having our good friend, Chuck, over for Christmas Eve dinner and the Nativity. He gave Brenly a beautiful doll house, which he had made himself! It was so good to have him with us. Christmas morning was so exciting, and it was fun to see the excitement! Grandma, Grandpa, Stacie, and Brian came later that day as well!

Brian and Logan sporting their USC gear!

Adam and Logan got some fun lego pirate ships!

Brenly was excited about her princess dress and accessories!

Waiting for the "go" to see what Santa brought!

Our Nativity cast with our good friend Chuck!

Christmas Early!

We felt like we had 3 Christmas'! We celebrated with Greg's family, then my Mom, Kip, and Carey came before Christmas bearing fun gifts, and then Christmas itself! What a fun year!

One of our Christmas' with Grandma and Grandpa!

Kip gave me such a thoughtful gift! He had taken one of the old windows from the farm and sandblasted different pictures from the farm onto each of the window panes! Definitely something I will treasure!

Brenly was thrilled with this beautiful Christmas dress!

Fun memories!

Logan was so cute! Carey had one of those hats that have the little flaps for your ears. Well, Logan wanted his hat to look just like Carey's - so with a little paper and tape - Wa La! He had flaps for his ears too!

We enjoyed exchanging gifts with cousins and siblings with Greg's family too! I got some nice new dishrags - much needed - from Kara!

Adam and Logan trying out their new stilts from Liz and Carter

Liz made Brenly a cute blanket for her babies!

From Mow to Snow

We hadn't really had any snow, so Adam decided he wanted to mow the lawn! I guess the younger the better- so we let him! He loved it. Thankfully we did get some snow though to play in for the Christmas season!Adam and Brenly enjoying the snow!

Our young mower!

O Christmas Tree

It was exciting to get the Christmas tree up and decorated! Maybe one of these years we will get ambitious and cut our own down, but for now we are perfectly content with driving 5 minutes down the road and being done in another 5 minutes with our selection!

Seasonal Fun

The Christmas season is always so much fun - I think the best part is just seeing the excitement in the eyes of children. Everything is wonderful and magical to them! It is just so fun to be together and share in some fun memories!Logan is always such a good helper - he loves to help Lincoln especially. Sometimes some camera time may distract from the real objective though!

One day, Logan just decided he was going to turn into Santa. He had just gotten a Santa hat, which he was really excited about, but needed a beard to go with it, so he got a paper towel, and with some scissor magic (and tape) he created Santa!

I love this picture of Lincoln snuggling up to Brenly!