A Small Christmas

Our usual tradition with Christmas is to open our gifts together as a family before we head to Idaho. That way it is a more intimate setting and we can enjoy our gifts with each other and Josh and I get some one on one time with the boys as they get excited about each gift. We love it and it just keeps getting better and better as the boys get older. Merry Christmas! 

"Santa" made the "mistake" of putting new cars on
top of everything else in their stockings and they
didn't haveany interest in digging any deeper. 

AND to make it even better, both boys remembered
seeing their cars at the store from, like, two weeks
earlier! Rookie mistake, Santa..

He wouldn't even put his cars down
to open a new gift. 

It took us all morning, but we finally got one
gift unwrapped. 

I need a minute, Dad, to play
with my cars. 

December in a Nutshell

December has been fun for all of us. Josh had a few new patients that he had fun problem solving for, and the boys and I had fun playing outside pretty much all day, every day. We also got to set up our Christmas tree, go caroling, and deliver some Christmas cookies, getting us all prepared for a wonderful Christmas season. We love December!

I couldn't find Benji for a few
minutes and turned around to this.
The little daredevil!

A Zoo trip with Daddy makes for
a pretty awesome Saturday. 

I told Miles he could get two cars
for the bathtub. He came waltzing in
with eleven. I can't ever say no
to that face. 

Benji loves Saturday snuggles with Dad. 

I am a sucker for sunsets.

Our one tree gives us plenty of leaves. 

He thought it was fun...just long enough for me to
take a picture. 

Such wonderful helpers!

Such handsome boys!

Having a park in the neighborhood is the Bees Knees.

The boys were SO brave and climbed
up the huge rocks. Benji went high enough
that taking a picture was a risk that I
was not willing to make and Milo
conquered his fears and went higher
than he did last time. Nice work, Boys!!

These ducks were crazy and snatched the cereal out of our hands
before we even had the chance to throw it. We left with sore thumbs.

Benji and Milo lost interest in
decorating the tree after dumping
our all of the bulbs. 

Nice placement, Benji!

Silly kid. He ran around the house
like this for fifteen
minutes straight. 

Leaves are so much fun! 

"LEAF WATERFALL"

Playing Hide and Seek with their cars. 

Benji and Milo LOVE reading.
Josh read all of these to
them in one sitting. 

Josh had to get his classmates
to guess who he had for secret
santa. He had a lot of fun with it!

The boys hid their cars from
Mom and Dad.

Josh has a lot of fun with the scouts
and was so proud of their fire that
they started with a battery! 

We had a lot of fun at the nativity
display at the stakecenter. 

I'm not sure Benji is the biggest
fan of climbing trees.

We can never get enough of Dad.

Such cuties.