Merry Christmas 2010!

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas! We didn't have quite the Christmas we were hoping for because, you guessed it, we were all sick! It was almost a repeat of Thanksgiving...only worse. The boys got sick on the 22nd and are still fighting off the stomach flu. Carter was feeling so puny that he was only mildly interested in all of his toys this year. What a bummer! Thank goodness we had our family celebration on the 24th, before the rest of us got sick.

A BIG thank you to everyone for the gift cards, money, PJ's, toys and books that you sent! The boys are starting to feel well enough to enjoy all of their fun, new stuff! I'm sorry we didn't get more photos to share, but this is the best we could do this year. Hopefully next year will be healthier! (And a little snow wouldn't hurt, either...)

Cousins

Sisters with cousins and one sick Carter

Christmas Eve

Kelsie Rae and a happy boy...you would never know he was sick!

Davis loved playing with Taylor

Sean decided to get festive! Ho, Ho, Ho!

Santa stopped here!

Miss Tonya

The boys and I have been going to a Holiday Music class this month and today was our last class. Miss Tonya, the music teacher, was amazing. She is so energetic and great with the kids...especially my two wild boys. Both boys loved singing, dancing and playing her instruments. What a great way to get in the Christmas mood! We loved Miss Tonya and will look forward to taking more classes with her.

Carter loved this snowman ball.

Playing with the other Reindeer...

My two little deer!

Do these antlers make my head look big?

Davis's favorite spot was standing right in front of Miss Tonya!

Reading the book we later got to take home.

Jingle Bells!

Santa and Snow

I took the boys to meet Santa (Carter says "No, Mommy! It's Santa Claus.") this afternoon and it went reasonably well. We had to wait about 20 minutes to get our turn, which made me nervous because at any moment someone could have been hungry or tired or needing to use the big boy potty. I gave Carter the option to go play instead, but he insisted we wait in line. Luckily, we survived the wait & Carter loved sitting on Santa's lap. However, Davis was not having it. He lasted for a few seconds and we were able to get a decent picture before the meltdown.

After Santa, you can walk through a cool Ice Castle snow globe at the mall. It was fun, especially since we have had basically no snow and it's only 10 days until Christmas. We'll take what we can get! The one downside was that the fake snow sticks to EVERYTHING and everyone in the mall just thought that we were a family with bad dandruff for the rest of the afternoon. A small price to pay for holiday cheer...

Brrrr...it's cold in here, Mom!

Davis trying to climb the mountain.

Carter standing under the falling snow (kind of hard to see in this photo).

Golden Parade

Since I had Friday night off, we decided to make the most of our Saturday and drive to Golden for their Christmas parade & festivities. The boys had a good time (Especially Carter, who got to show off his dance moves!) and we beat the cold by eating lunch at Woody's pizza--yum! We are really enjoying this Christmas season & hope you all are, too!

Gingerbread House

We made a graham cracker gingerbread house this week. It was more mid-century modern than Tudor, but after it collapsed it was just a tasty mess that the boys loved sampling. I had to stop taking pictures because I was getting frosting all over our camera. It was a yummy afternoon project & one I'm sure we will be repeating!

Putting away my first graham cracker...


and second...

Oh no!! The roof collapsed!

putting down the foundation

Sprinkles make everything look better!

Mmmm...

Even though it fell down, that didn't stop Carter from decorating his house.