Christmas 2010

Christmas this year seem to come and go so quickly. Wow!! Our Christmases started on Christmas Eve after church with the Tredennick side. The snow that night was absolutely beautiful and the family time was awesome. I didn't get one single picture of any of it. Ugh!! Anyways... The boys really had a great time playing with their cousins. On Christmas Day, we woke up and had a little family Christmas with just us four. It was really special. I spend most of my time behind the video camera so again not a whole lot of pictures. Gavin and Griffin really liked their presents from Santa.

After our little Christmas, we went to out my Papa 4 wheeler and Mama Kathy's house.

The boys were very exited and very hungry by the time we got there. They really got into their gifts this year and tearing the wrapping paper off.

Of course, Mama loves to take a picture of the mess afterwards. After Papa 4 wheeler and Mama Kathy's house, we headed to Colfax for Papa Steeler and Mama Dolphin's house for their big Christmas. I was a little worried how my boys' attitude would be being they had so much excitement and no nap but they did great. After eating a meal of different yummy pastas, we opened presents. The boys were happy as happy could be.

Gavin with Daddy's reindeer he built last time ago.

Griffin and his cousin, Anthony!! They are buddies.

Gavin with some presents.

Horsing around with Anthony....

Griffin having a snack before night time. They were exhausted by the end of the day. The next day, we had Christmas on the Bittner side. The boys were thrilled to see their Papa Old Tractor and Mama Ruth. We had a nice lunch, visit, and opening some gifts. This year I got a snuggies because we all know how much I complain how I am cold all of the time.

We have one more Christmas on this coming Saturday but we feel especially blessed to be around all of our family. Although we may be tired at the end of the day, we are thankful we are able to get to spend Christmas with most all of our family.

Sleeping Arrangements

I have posted many times about the boys and their ever changing sleeping arrangements. Well it continues to change. One night last week I went to go to bed two hours after I put them to bed and I discovered this was their bed. Now Gavin has been known to sleep at the top of the stairs until I go to bed but Griffin never has. To my surprise, they were both sound asleep. I moved them back into their beds and they stayed there the whole night.

Sugar Cookie Maker

Before Christmas the boys and I made sugar cookies. Griffin was really into it including all of the powdered sugar. He kept on wanting to put more powder sugar on the counter which in turn made him covered in it. As you can see he had it all over. We don't normally bake in our underwear but when his pants got wet from the snow, he wanted them off then and so that is how we rolled that night.

The cookies didn't turn out at all at least you couldn't tell what shape they were suppose to be. They were still edible and good but the boys were a little disppointed that you couldn't tell that the tree was a tree and a star was a star. We will have to try again. Gavin won't take a picture because "He didn't want to" so I didn't make him.

Sledding

Today we took advantage of the snow that is left on the ground out at Papa 4 wheeler's house. Papa even made hills for us to go over. Papa bought the boys a new sled and it last for about an hour before the plastic broke through but we still had a great time. My advice is to not go in the corn field because from what I hear it isn't that smooth out there.

We rode for about an hour to an hour an half before Gavin got too cold. As you can tell in this picture, he isn't happy at all. His hands were cold but he was a good trooper. Griffin was quite the sledder. He was very interested in watching Papa's dog and the neighbor's dog have some fun together. We couldn't get the neighbor's dog to go home so he just kept chasing us up and down the lane along with Papa's dog. Griffin called it, "Scary dog", it finally went home when we went home.

The boys cuddled up with Mama Kathy while Kerry and I went back out to play on the 4 wheeler.

I obviously can't wait for more snow to come so we can go play out in it all over again.

Making Pretzels

Last weekend, we made our annual white chocolate pretzels. The boys did a really good job with the sprinkles this year but they couldn't wait to eat the white chocolate.

I let them each have one for helping Mommy out.


Griffy had it all over.

I am hoping to make cut out cookies this week sometime, it should be interesting with the frosting.

Sickies and Potty training

No I haven't been meaning to ignore my blog but things have been a little crazy and I just haven't had the time. Last week, Gavin was sick as in he was puking for two days but he did get over it. Now the wait is for the next family member to get it. I'm just praying it doesn't last long and it isn't over Christmas.

Griffin is pretty much potty trained. He wears underwear all of the time. He still has accidents but they are few. He loves to wear underwear that matches Gavin's underwear he has on. I'm so proud of him.

Keep watching for pictures of the boys helping me with candy pretzels.

1st Snow

It is no surprise that I love love love snow. I love to play in it and I love to get my boys out in it so you can only imagine my excitement when I saw the snow coming down on Friday night and how much snow we got on Saturday morning and afternoon. So I couldn't wait to get home and get out in it. While Griffin took a nap (he was way over tired otherwise I would have taken him out too), Gavin and I headed outside. We had a ball.

He couldn't wait to play. We first made our very first snowman together and it was perfect snow for doing so. Gavin named her but I don't remember her name. I know bad mom but it is a crazy long name.

He is so stinkin cute. Then we had a huge snowball fight. He has a great arm. I have never heard him laugh so much. He loves to be pushed down in the snow and then he comes after you for a tackle. Too funny!! We would have stayed out for hours but we just couldn't.... We pray it continues to snow quite a bit this winter so we all can play in it. I can't wait to take them to the Timber Ridge hill so we can go down it on the sled and take them out to Papa 4 wheeler's to go sledding behind the 4 wheeler. So much fun to be had....