Aaron and his Aunts

Aaron Michael looking so debonair at 11:30 at night!

On December 30th Amy and Allie were both free and we decided to have a sisters night at my house. We sat around, drank wine, talked and watched a little TV...ok, we mostly drank wine and talked. Around 11:30 Aaron woke up and his Aunties ran in to get him. They played with him for a while before putting him back down to bed. He is such a sweet boy!

Air-bear and Aunt Ba-Ba.

Da-bear and Aunt Ree.

Merry Christmas!

We had such a wonderful Christmas spending time with all our family. My family as well as Adam's parents went to mass at 6:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve at our church. Adam, myself and the boys then went back to Adam's parents house where we had a lovely evening opening gifts and spending time together. As we drove home Alec was searching the sky to see if he could find Santa's sleigh flying through the sky. When we got home we put out cookies and milk for Santa and then got the boys to bed.

Christmas morning dawned and Alec was up with the sun! We first ran out to check and see if Santa had eaten the cookies and sure enough he had! We looked through all our stockings and then went out to the family room to check the tree. Alec could not believe all the gifts that were under the tree! We had a blast opening gifts and seeing Alec's reaction to his presents. His favorite gift was the Thomas slippers that Santa had brought him. He wanted them on his feet immediately! Santa brought Aaron some toys also and he put them right into his mouth! Yummy!

After we opened gifts we went over to my parents house to have breakfast and open gifts there. It was so nice to be able to spend the morning with everyone, including the newest member of our family, Allie's husband Jason. That afternoon the rest of the extended family came over as well as Adam's parents and we all celebrated the birth of Christ by enjoying the company of our loved ones.

The only flaw in the two day celebration was that I somehow managed on Christmas morning to reformat the disc on our new digital camera and deleite ALL the pictures from Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. I cried my eyes out when I realized what happened! Thankfully Adam's parents have some pictures from Christmas eve. That will teach me to go messing with the digital camera!

More Christmas pics

Grammie, Aunt Amy, and Aaron

Papa helping Alec open his Thomas suitcase

More more Christmas

Allie and Jason with their Godson

Mommy and her boys

On Saturday, December 13th we decided to take advantage of the Law Enforcement days at Knotts Berry Farm and take the kids. What we did not realize is that it was also Toys for Tots weekend so anyone else who wanted to go just had to bring a toy and they got into Knotts for $10.00. It was PACKED!!! We did get to do a few fun things however. Alec was excited to meet Snoopy in person. He LOVES all the Peanuts gang from watching the holiday specials over at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Momma and her boys!
Alec and Daddy in Camp Snoopy.

Alec and Daddy sitting in a old train car.

After leaving Knotts we went and had dinner at Po Folks. Talk about yummy down home cooking! It was a nice day hanging out with the family.

First bath together

Aaron has finally gotten big enough to be able to enjoy sitting in the tub with his big brother. Alec thought it was pretty funny to have Aaron in the tub with him. Alec enjoyed pouring water over Aaron's feet and body and helping to wash his hair. He is such a great big brother!

Making a gingerbread house

I thought it would be lots of fun for us to make a gingerbread house this year to have as a holiday center piece. I thought about making the gingerbread myself and then decorating it but then I came to my senses. I went to Costco and bought a kit. The only problem was that I turned into psycho perfection mom while making it. Alec of course wanted to help make the house but he was not doing it the way I wanted so I was getting stressed out. I know, sad.

The gingerbread house turned out really nice but I think next year I will buy one for me to do and one for Alec to do so that he can actually do what he wants to it.

Here is Alec doing his part...tasting the icing. That icing had SO much sugar in it, I can't imagine it must have tasted very good! He did not seem to mind.

Aunt Allie came over and helped us make the house. We love her SO much!!

Aaron was looking adorable as always that night. I had to get a picture of him in his bear PJ's. SO cute!!

"Loser!!"

Aaron was having fun playing on his activity mat and Alec was near by playing with his puzzles and toys. All of the sudden Alec came over to me and said, "Look Mommy! Aaron has a puzzle piece!!" I looked over and Alec had placed this L on his forehead! Alec of course had no idea what the "L" meant but I thought it was TOO funny and had to get a picture of it!

Jumpin' Jamin'

The weather was pretty crummy for our regular friday play date at the park so Pauline and I decided to take the boys down to Jumpin' Jamin', an indoor play ground down in Mission Viejo. When we first arrived at the place the boys went into the ball room. I went in with them and thought it would be fun to shoot the balls in the air with the air powered machine in the middle. Unfortunately I did not know the VERY loud noise that went along with it! The boys freaked out with the loud sound and ran out of the room. We quickly found the toddler area after that and set up camp there. The boys enjoyed running around and playing with the big soft blocks.

Aaron also enjoyed looking at all the different color blocks and really liked this block shaped like a duck.

Alec somehow ended up in the corner near the blocks playing with some cute girls. He is such a ladies man!

Cormac and Aaron enjoyed chilling on the soft blocks with eachother. I bet they can't wait till they can run around like the big boys!!

Double trouble!! As always, we had a blast with our friends Pauline, Ian and Cormac. We are very blessed to have them in our lives!!