Christmas with the Browns :)

Soooo, yeah....I am blogging about the rest of Christmas....and its February....barely.  :)  Oh well, busy life.  So how are you everyone!!!  We have been good, a few bugs, some really nice days, some really cold days, and lots of happiness in between.  :)  The boys have had another haircut, Jake is still loving school and AWANA, Ryan is still plugging away at work, I am still loving staying at home with my adorable boys, Jake started swim lessons, AJ's vocabulary is blowing up, and we are all still loving our new home in Oklahoma!

But its time to look back to Christmas.  lol  After Christmas we were blessed to have Ryan's parents fly out.  We had a wonderful time with them and feel so lucky that we still got to spend the holidays with both of our families.  :)  But aside from some cold weather that they were not quite used to :)  we had a terrific time!!!  So here are some pictures of our fun!!

First off AJ had gotten this pirate ship as a Christmas present and he really enjoys playing with it!

You will see a lot of pictures of my boys coloring as its something that they both LOVE to do.  Here Jake and is Pa Wayne are really concentrating on a coloring project.

You cannot see this here, but Jake Grandma and Pa are busy singing the Transformers song :)

But then AJ got jealous that he was not included so he needed to jump into the mix :)

Jake and Grandma found a maze activity in one of his coloring books!  :)

AJ is just staring to get into cooking like his brother!  Although a bit of supervision is needed.  :)  But he is sure a cute little cook!  :)

Pa playing baseball in the house with the boys...luckily nothing was broken  :)

We were also very blessed in that Pa and Grandma Brown watched the boys for a night so that we could drive down to the Oklahoma Texas border to catch a wonderful concert and spend a night alone just us.  :)  This was a lake we drove over to get there...it was so much fun to see more of Oklahoma on our drive!

And the concert?  The Swon Brothers, and it was AWESOME!!!!

Of course we came back and all sorts of craziness had happened.  hehe But everyone had had a wonderful time!!!

The one thing that Jake had talked about since we had started all the Christmas festivities was that he wanted to make Snowflake cookies with Grandma Peg.  So after finding a snowflake cookie cutter he was finally able to live his little dream.

The first snowflake...think its everything he wanted it to be :)

All of the festive cookies

AJ was sleeping during the cookie making...but he was still pretty excited to see them when he woke up...maybe daddy was too :)

Puzzle time!!!  AJ got one of his own for Christmas too.

Then we got to have one last Christmas celebration to share gifts.  Yes the boys were spoiled this year!

Both boys got new towels, here is a very cute one of AJ modeling his

And Jake got the game of Cootie from his Aunt B which he LOVES!!!  He is now super into games and we have a lot of fun playing with him...even though he seems to win all the time. (I swear we are not letting him!!!)

AJ got a new submarine to go with his Octopod which he was super excited about!!

Jake got some Ninja Turtle videos which he was thrilled about!!!  He loves to watch them with his brother and his best buddy from school while they act out the scenes with the cartoons.  Its pretty cute. :)

This was my favorite gift for Pa Wayne...Santa the Packaging expert new he would love a special tape dispenser :)

We also gave one of the special photo books to Ryan's parents as well, they really seemed to enjoy it!

And even Piper was included

AJ getting some coloring time in with Grandma Peg

Its Cootie Time!!!!!

Jake loves the little bugs that we all made in the game....

...although which one has the craziest face?  :)

AJ modeling with his new potato head he got from his Aunt B...she was not able to make the trip and we missed her but hopefully we can get her out here soon!!!

We brought out an old game of mine (although I wish I had kept more of my little kid games!), the boys were very intense while playing Connect 4

Wrestle time...who do you think won!!!

"OK now Grandma, you carefully run this carrot over the grater like this....

....oh Grandma, we really need to work on this!!!!"  :P

Jake doing some beautiful coloring in his new book

Father and son having fun!!!

 

Well Merry Christmas everyone...lol  I still have pictures of our trip to the Museum of History that we took while Grandma and Pa were here so the boys could see the Dinosaur bones as they call them...that will be next!  Soon I promise.  :)