hanging out with grammy and grandad

we have spent our week hanging out with grammy, grandad and pop pop. lots of playing and making things. like fabric flowers. so much fun!









i hope everyone has a happy new year!

Christmas day

at 6:30 am mason started screaming. they usually don't wake up crying.i really thought we had another year or two before the whole wake up before dawn excitement thing started. i asked him why he woke up so early and he said because he wanted to show santa his mickey mouse. silly kid. we started off the morning with stockings at home.







then we headed over to papa and mimi's house to spend the day with them, grammy & grandad, pop pop and jaffy via skype.



we started off with the kids giving the grandparents their gifts that they (mostly i) had made.





then they started tearing into presents. they loved opening presents. they kept saying, i want more presents. i think they really would have enjoyed it if we had rewrapped them all and let them do it again. they were excited about the toys inside later, but when they started they just wanted to unwrap them.













and the fun has kept going with all of their fun new toys.










I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

christmas eve

we started the day off with a playdate with some family friends. we always get together when they are in town and it was great to see leighton, and her parents. isn't she precious?

aunt jaffy had to work and was on call christmas day so we spent quite a bit of time skyping her.

that night we went over to aunt candy's house for christmas with extended family.

the kids got to open their present from aunt jaffy - mickey and mini and matching pj's. they LOVED them.

mason shaking his booty for jaffy...

showing pop pop their cool toys.

then we headed home to play santa! santa brought them each a flashlight just like they asked.

christmas starts early

we made christmas trees with our friends! a great idea for two year olds. easy enough :)






today grandpa went to wal-mart with the kids to let them pick out their christmas present from him. when i was a kid he used to take me to toys r us and let me pick out what i wanted for christmas from them. as a kid, that was one of the coolest things ever. i still remember one of the things i got for christmas from them. i got to pick out this awesome lego ship. it is still in my room at home!




remember this? last year the kids were terrified of santa.


this year they warmed up to him very quickly. when he walked in they wouldn't even let him get in the door they wanted to show him their christmas presents from pop pop. then we told them to sit in his lap and tell him what they wanted for christmas. mason let me put him in santas lap, but was very very shy. he sat there eyes downcast whispering. sawyer decided she would just stand there and tell him what she wanted. she told him she wanted a flashlight and a baby brother. then santa said well i can't bring one of those on the sleigh, you will have to talk to your mom and dad. and that was the end of that... she was DEVASTATED. she started screaming and wanted nothing to do with santa. i made eric sit her in santas lap for the obligatory picture with santa.

cookie party

we are loving all the fun holiday stuff this year. i can't believe christmas is this weekend!

more pictures

i have been trying to get some good pictures of the kids for christmas presents and such. the first shoot was out at the state park. the kids did great. they had just gotten their flu shot and had no nap, so they did surprisingly well.

watching him shake his booty :)






the second shoot was done out at jacob's dream. sawyer was having a very stubborn day. she refused to wear her cream tights and brown boots like i wanted. she had to wear her jamie pants and pink boots. nice.