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Daddy: "Brodey, why don't you go run around outside with Sadie and burn off some energy."

Brodey: (gasp) "You want me to go build up some injuries??"

It's a good thing I'm around to clear up all this miscommunication.

Christmas 2008

Two very excited little boys and one baby girl for me to snuggle, what more could I ask for on Christmas??

Our Christmas started earlier than ever this year. Our normally excellent sleepers were just too excited to wait for the morning.... we were up at 2am, 4am and finally at 6am we gave in to the madness and got up for good. (Jeff and I drank lots and lots of coffee yesterday!) We opened presents at home, had breakfast, played for awhile and then headed to gramma and grampa's for Christmas with the family. All three were totally spoiled... we had to take two cars to bring all their new toys home and my fingers are now raw from getting the toys out of the steel traps they come in.

The middle of the day was spent kicking field goals on Harrison High Schools football field and then back to the Grandparents house for a Christmas feast. We ended the day back at home playing board games with the boys... I forgot how fun Mouse Trap and Candy Land are! So fun to see how exciting it all was for them.

With all of the excitement we didn't forget who we were celebrating and are more thankful for Jesus than for anything else this Christmas season.

He gave up his place with God and made himself nothing. He was born to be a man and became like a servant.

Philippians 2:7

I tried something new with my pictures... I had some really good Christmas music I was going to set it to but for the life of me couldn't figure out how to do it. So that's why it's the odd blues music. It was either that or Zac Brown's "Chicken Fried". I don't know why those are my only two options!

Other fun things:

Brock's favorite gifts: a candy cane and tootsie rolls. Also the moon. (He actually got he moon! Lyndsay and Travis AND Myles and Kali got him light up moons for his room.. they have remotes so he can change the shape from full to crescent and more.. so cute!)

Brodey's favorite gifts: Wall-E jammies, batman and all his board games.

Lyla's favorite: A quilt made by her great-grandmother.

Birthday Cake for Jesus

Look at that boy with the mixer! He makes me so proud!

Oh the Christmas Trees...

We went around the house taking pictures with a few of our Christmas trees this morning... this first one the boys decorated themselves. You can't really tell in the picture but it has LOTS of colored lights, a very colorful paper chain, and at least 50 matchbox cars. (It was Brock's idea to decorate it with the cars... crafty little boy he is!)This one, obviously, is Lyla's tree. (That's Lyla in the red... I say that for my dad who may not recognize her in a color other than pink. ;)
This is our main tree... it's starting to lean a little and everyday I wonder if it's going to fall down (like last year), but so far so good!

And finally our kitchen tree.

And a little Christmas message from the kids. Lyla just didn't know what to think!

Pre-Game Nap

Lyla and Grampa watched the Falcons/Vikings game together. This is how they prepared themselves.

Bass Pro Shop Santa

We took the boys on their first ever trip to Bass Pro Shops yesterday and there was a Santa there! The boys have never showed any interest in visiting Santa before and I don't push it because Santa's kind of weird me out. So this was also their first visit with Santa Claus. Turns out Bass Pro Santa is a pretty crabby old man. Brodey was so excited to tell him what he wanted for Christmas and Santa didn't even talk to him! Not a single word. I thought about kicking him in the shin. (Notice Brock's face.. he wasn't a fan either.)

Oh well... we still had fun decorating cookies, seeing the "big fish", watching the trains and shooting the guns (toy guns)!

Lyla meets Great-Grandpa

My grandfather is in town for Christmas, Lyla was so excited to meet "Big-Grampa", it was love at first sight! Lyla is his 13th great-grandchild.