I absolutely love Christmas every year and having our boys has made it so much more special for us. They were both beyond excited for every decoration, cookie, song, video, event and mention that had anything to do with the wonderful holiday. :) Seeing that excitement is just so sweet and wonderful and looking back its the biggest thing I am missing with Christmas being over. But we had such a great time doing things with them and helping them create some really fun Christmas memories.
Jake and Ryan worked really hard on getting the outside of our house to look fantastic
The Christmas tree is always the boys favorite decoration, they love it and want to plaster it with as many ornaments as possible. :) And once it was done AJ made sure to show anyone that came by the house, even including the garage door repair man and the bug spray guy. :)
Ryan helping us decorate the tree
The boys were very quick ornament hangers, we had this done quickly in all their excitement
Jake
AJ
With their height you have to remind them that we need some towards the top as well :)
I love making these memories
AJ of course saw his brother hanging them high and so had to help as well...monkey see monkey do with these two :)
We did take a break the next day to go to a friends Birthday party. There the boys had a blast playing with the motorized ATV toy. AJ was very intense about it.
Jake of course set it to the fast speed and had a blast flying around the neighborhood
The boys seeing up their Veggie Tales Nativity set
Last year my mom bought the boys one of the Elf on a Shelf buddies. But we were never able to do any of the magical things with him this year because AJ loved him so much. He carried him around all over and had to sleep with him at nap and bedtime. You can see, its elf love :)
AJ finally getting into his turkey hat that Jake made him :)
Cute boys
We got to take Jake's best friend to church with us one Sunday and they enjoyed playing in the sled photo op area.
OK you know Christmas time has begun when you start making scramble. This year I had a great helper!!!
Unpluggits day! Never knew they had a toddler craft time, but AJ got to make this cute Christmas mouse that held a candy cane. I thought it was adorable, but he mostly cared about the candy cane. :)
Then of course some fun painting
Doesn't our house look great!!!
Some friends from church invited us over to decorate cookies with them. We all had a great time and came away with a nice sugar high. :)
Happy cookie decorator
Great gingerbread man...the moustache was a great touch
Daddy helping Jake, and AJ eating another cookie in the background. And yes, I think AJ enjoyed eating them more than decorating them :)
Daddy won the prize for best decorator...check out his tree!!! (and yes he already has his new OKC Dodgers hat, Ryan is super excited that his team's AAA team is now in our city)
Afterwards the boys enjoyed playing in their backyard...although I am not sure if they had more fun with the playground set or all the leaves. :)
After all this fun this boy was tuckered out!!! Love how he still loves and sleeps with his baby.
Love love love this time of year!!!!!
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