Walker singing at the Christmas Eve service at our church
Making Reindeer Food
Henry thought that we were feeding our reindeer, not Santa's. How cute is that?
A picture of the boys before they went to bed! Now this could be a cute picture right? Well it is, but Henry always opens his mouth for pictures! He is so silly! It is frustrating now but I know that one day when I look back I will laugh and say, "Well that is our crazy Henry".
We enjoyed Christmas Eve so much! We spent the day at home enjoying each other, and some neighbors came over to exchange gifts with the kids. It was such a great time to be at home and just be around all of the excitement of the boys! At 5 we went to our church for our Christmas Eve service, which was great! The preschoolers got to sing a few songs which was so cute! We came home and ate salmon stew which is a tradition that I bring to the family from our family. We also let the boys open up one gift from us. It is usually something small. As you can probably tell Walker got a blue power ranger costume which he had to put on immediately! Henry got a black power ranger. We had a great time making reindeer food! The boys thought that it was so much fun and I just love that they love this tradition that we have started! I just love christmas!
Well, the boys have been wanting an animal for quite some time now. Walker didn't really care as to what we got but Henry loves cats! He goes to our neighbors all the time to play with their cats and he loves JL's and Mac's. Eric and I finally got them one! We went to pick her up the Monday after Christmas. It was a huge surprise for the boys! They had no idea that we were getting them a cat! She was 12 weeks old when we got her and she has already been fixed! She is such a special addition to our family. We let them pick out the name. At first Walker wanted to name her "Pink Feather". I guess that he was just trying to think of something girly. However I tried to talk him out of that because I just thought that that would be too confusing for her. He couldn't think of anything all day and finally he asked me where we lived and I said Georgia and that is what he chose. I think that it is adorable and it just suits her. She is so much fun. She loves playing with the boys and then she will curl up in you lap and just love you! She really likes Walker. She always wants to snuggle up beside him. She is great and we are so excited that we now have an animal in our family.
Gran Jan loving her babies!
My 3 boys!
Gran Jan, Pop and the Dad's took the little ones on a nature walk
Ellen getting ready to tear up the slopes! I only fell once and that was because my husband tried to snow board, well and he got up and ran into me! Seriously! At least I wasn't trying to be cool like my sister, who thought she was the best skier! She cracked me up. Everytime she would ski by me and say something like, "I'm going to win" and then she would fall! It was hilarious!
Maybe last minute but on December 23rd we finally made it to Stone Mountain for their Christmas lights. Posted in a earlier post we attempted to go earlier but got there and they were not letting anyone else in the park due to overcrowdedness. So the only other time we could go was 2 days before Christmas. It was so Magical! I'm not sure who had more fun Eric and I or the kids. We felt like kids ourselves. This place is so magical at Christmas time! It makes you love having children during this special time! They have so much to do and we just about did it all! They open with a christmas parade, you get to make your own cookies, visit Santa, watch the Polar Express 4D, ride a train around the park which stops for a little narration ( which is great), roast marshmellows, laser show, putt-putt, and my favorite the snow angel. They have more but that is all we did. My parents actually got the boys a year family pass to Stone Mountain for Christmas. They gave us our passes early this year so that we could go to the Christmas and get one more Christmas out of it next year. We are going to use this pass all the time, especially Kim and I and the boys. There is so much to do there year round. This year they actually just opened up snow tubing! We are going to try this out this very soon! They are going to have a place that you can make snowmen and such, and just play in the snow. How fun is that! I am super excited! They have so much to do as far as a petting zoo, paddle boats, skyrides, train rides, putt putt, etc....... The past 3 years my parents have been doing these yearly passes to different places. One year it was the Georgia Aquarium, INK a children't musseum and this year the Stone Mountain Passes. We have truly enjoyed having a year pass somewhere! Especially with me staying at home with the boys it gives us something fun to do! I love gifts that make memories or gifts that you will never forget and these for sure do just that!
Henry wishing that he would have gotten what they got! Kim, you know that it's true. But he is too young to be liking the power rangers! He loves them! I know that it is not a good thing, but hey he has a 5 year old brother! He doen't like toys his own age at all! Man, the second child grows up too fast! I just loved the look on his face in this picture!
