A Sunny Day!!!!

We have just been loving the weather lately. It definatly is giving me Spring Fever bad!!! I swear I am solar powered. I have so much more energy and get so much more accomplished when it is sunny outside, and still have time to play with the kids in the sun? Anyone else feel like that? On Tuesday we decided to enjoy the sun with our cousin Davie and Aunt Becca. Of course Becca had her camera with her. Here are some of the pics.

Playing dumptrucks in the sandbox.



I loved to play with the rocks!



Davie on the other hand was trying to make snow angels. Weirdo!!



Brody was so happy to be outside. He especially enjoyed the swing. He started off smiley and giggly, but then it made him kind of sleepy.





He also enjoyed being pushed around in the stroller. I think we will be doing a lot more of this.



What a handsome boy!



Check out these two studs! Can you just see them as teenagers. YIKES!



I love the tunnel shots Becca got. Especially this one. I think I will frame it and put it in Blakes room. Davie really is one of Blakes best friends ever!!





Looking for ducks!

Check out Blakes face in this picture. He kept calling Davie a Maniac!! (It's kind of true, you should see how he drives that jeep, he truly is amazing for a 3 year old!!)

Brody

I went to my sisters house yesterday and she was nice enough to humor me and take MORE pictures of Brody. Everytime I go over there I want her to take more pictures. He was in such good spirits though. She does such a good job! Here are some cute ones that I wanted to share:

"... a double chin? I don't know what you're talking about!"

Brody trying sooooo hard to lift his head up all the way. He actually really loves to be on his tummy!


We just love his baby blue eyes and those red highlights!




Ten toes! Aren't babies feet just the cutest thing?

Brody is lucky he is so cute...

New Years Day Brody came down with a cold. Poor little guy. It is so sad to see him feel so sick. His eyes are red, he is all congested, I can tell he has a sore throat and a cough as well. It just seems no fair for such a little guy.

I tell you though, he is lucky he is so cute because it has been a hard couple of days and Nights. I can't wait till he feels better and is his smiley little self again. And I can't wait until I can get a little more sleep. So if you want, feel free to keep Brody in your prayrers.

I snaped these pictures right before he got sick. They made me smile so I thought I would share them with you.



Here is Brody giving me a smile.



Here is Brody after the flash of the camera.

Christmas Day

*** I am taking time to catch up on some posts, so please scroll down and make sure you see them all. I am getting tired and am sure Brody will be waking me up anytime so I should get some rest. I have more to post, but will have to finish up tomorrow. Check back soon!**


I didn't get as many pictures of our Christmas morning due to Brody wanting to nurse right during all the excitement. We had a wonderful Christmas. I love waiting for my kids to wake up in the morning. I lay in bed so anxious for them to wake up. This year I didn't have to wait long. Tommy woke up at 6:45am. That is the earliest my kids have waken up. I didn't mind though because Brody woke me up at 5:30am and I was so excited I couldn't get back to sleep. I hear Tommy trying to wake Blake up. "Blake, it's Christmas WAKE UP. Blake it's Christmas!!! Blake lets see if Santa came. BLAKE... ARE YOU AWAKE. Poor Blake had no choice. He finally woke up and they came running in our room. Mom, Dad- Can we go see if Santa came? We have a tradition where the kids crawl in bed with me while dad goes down stairs, makes sure Santa came and lights a fire. Then he calls us downstairs and we all come running down.



Blakes Christmas pajama's. I can't get him to stay still long enough to get a picture.


Tommy posing in his pajama's. They are really into Star Wars clone wars, and I found Star Wars pajama's. They were so excited.







Blake with his Webkinz from Nana




Tommy showing off his star wars ship.

Both the kids got lots of presents and were so excited. I think the biggest hit has been the Wii and the Wii fit. I have never been a video game fan, but it makes me feel less guilty when my kids are being active while playing video games. It has been a lot of fun and I find we spend a lot of fun time together as a family. Even Blake tries to play.






Daddy and Blake got a gingerbread house from our neighbor and had fun putting it together.

Christmas Eve Traditions...

This year we had a wonderful Christmas. It started out with our traditional Christmas Eve at my mom's house. I love Christmas Eve. Like my sister Rebecca said it is one of my favorite holidays ever and has been since I was a little child. It has now become my kids favorite holiday as well. Christmas Eve Tommy woke up and asked when we could go to Grandma's house. We usually don't get together till around 4 or 5pm so it made for a LONG day. I think he asked what time it was every 10minutes. I can't blame him, I kept checking the time too! I look forward to getting together with my family, watching the chaotic childrens nativity, eating yummy food and opening a present. It was a blast!! Here are some pictures that I stole from Rebecca's blog.




** Pictures of the whole cast**





(Don't worry Angel- I know it is sad that he was born in a stable and had no crib for a bed, but it will be okay:)


Mary and Joseph accepting a gift from the Ryan the Wise-Guy



Blake dressed up as a Shepard. Unfortunatly the only way we could get him to agree to do it, is tell him that he was a Jedi/Shepard and he could hold a cane/lightsaber. What do you expect he is 3!!



Audrey made a beautiful Mary!!



And Tommy made a handsome Joseph!!

These pictures make our little nativity look so perfect. But it was actually very chaotic and funny. As I said, we had to be creative to get Blake and some of the others to dress up. Jenna wanted to be a princess so she was an angel princess. When Tommy (Joseph) and Audrey (Mary) walked in they brought baby Jesus with them. We had to remind them that baby Jesus came later. Blake kept fighting bad guys off with with his cane. Half way through the play we lost our two of our angels. Catie walked off and decided to play with the toys and we couldn't find Emily anywhere. We ended up finding her upstairs eating all the food. I guess these angels got bored and hungry. My dad video taped it and we plan on watching these videos through the years. IT will be fun to show them to the kids when they are teenagers.