Christmas

Christmas Eve the boys and I went to my parent's house for late lunch/early dinner.

 Thomas had fun building with Papa and wood scraps.

Nathan enjoyed popsicles and Christmas movies with David

 and Santa came and brought the boys & their cousins Christmas jammies

 I love Tommy's face in this picture!

 Christmas morning, Thomas and Nathan came into my room at 3am....I told them it was still the middle of the night and they needed to go back to bed until the sun is up or Santa will be to scared to bring them any presents.  It worked, we got up for the second time about 7am.

The boys really didn't have a lot of things on their Christmas lists this year, so they ended up getting everything they asked for!

the one thing Thomas really wanted was a Hot Wheel Car Maker

 and one of the things that Nathan really wanted was Trash Tossin' Rowdy

 David didn't want me to put any pictures of him opening things up, his list was short but expensive this year.  He ended up getting most of what he wanted & is happy with what he got.

 What better way to end a morning of opening presents and Christmas excitement than with a nap!  And of course crawling inside the big gift bag to make sure there is nothing else in there!

catch up to Christmas

David's baseball team had a tournament in San Diego last weekend, it was nice and warm so the boys got to enjoy some swim time!  (the extra boy is a kid on David's team that I took down with us)

 LV Coyotes  (David is #7)

 David catching....He caught both games on Sunday

 and David hitting....he had a few really good hits that tournament

 This weekend we decorated sugar cookies for Santa....the boys each got to pick one of the cookies they decorated to save for him.   There was lots of little tongues licking the frosting and mounds of sprinkles!

 and the boys did a gingerbread house 

 and rice krispy train

 Thomas & Nathan

Thomas had his 1st grade Winter Program at school.  That morning he told me he didn't want to go to it, I told him he didn't really have a choice since I had to go since I was in charge of the refreshments, he told me that he would go, but he was not going to sing!  This is his class doing their song, he is the one on the far right.

Polar Express

 While the boys were at school Friday I packed up the car.  Once they all got home, we loaded up the van and headed out of town.  I did not tell them where we were going, they just knew we were going to a hotel.  We were headed to Ely to go on the Polar Express.  They were so excited that it started snowing on the way up there and when we got to the hotel Friday night it was 19 degrees and snowing and tons of snow on the ground already.   Saturday morning, after breakfast we headed to the park to play in the snow.  The boys had fun sledding down the hill, making snow angels, throwing snowballs at eachother and trying to make a snowman.  Later Saturday, we went to the train yard and picked up our tickets for the train ride.  Thomas and Nathan were so excited that they were going to go on the train!  

Once we got to the North Pole Santa came onboard and the boys got to visit with him & of course take pictures.

 Sweet little Nay-Nay...he was SO excited the entire train ride he had a hard time sitting still.  He kept talking the whole way to the North Pole about everything, what he wants for Christmas, school, friends, trains. Once Santa got off the train and we started to head back to the train station I asked him a question and he didn't answer me, I leaned over and looked at him and found him sound asleep!  Apparently going to the North Pole was way to exciting for him!