Christmas 2015!

We were blessed to have a wonderful Christmas just the 4 of us!  Hard to believe this was our 3rd Oklahoma Christmas but we have loved it so much and so enjoy all of our Christmas traditions that we have created.  Its the most wonderful time of the year!  :)

So Christmas Eve we go out for donuts!  This year we tried a newer place close to our house and were super excited to see Star Wars donuts when we walked in.

AJ, who adores R2D2 was very happy with his donut!

Jake loved his storm trooper too....he was just too delicious to get a picture of whole though.  hehe  After this we took the boys to their favorite used bookstore and then home for lunch.  Not the most traditional way to spend a Christmas Eve day but we love it.  :)  Then of course we went to church for a wonderful service!

The next morning the boys were thoughtful enough to wait until 7 to leave their rooms.  :)  But they quickly needed to dive into Santa's gift bags and their stockings.  Jake had asked Santa for a Lego City set and so was super happy to get this in his bag!

AJ had not talked about anything all month other than how he asked Santa for an Arlo and Spot buddy from the new movie The Good Dinosaur.  He had not even seen the movie...but was in love with these characters.  He was so happy that Santa brought them!

Love this!

Had to get them set up just like he saw on the movie posters :)

Then we dove into stockings.  Lots of fun things in here!

So many things to look at!!!

Daddy had lots of fun opening some new baseball cards in his stocking!

Our little elves!  Much easier now that they can both read everyone's names.

AJ was so excited to open his gift from his teacher Mrs. Meredith!  He loved his Christmas book about Jesus! :)

...and then of course back to his buddies :)

Jake was super excited to get this Guardians of the Galaxy toy plane...the boy loves this movie!

AJ has his own character fuzzy blanket to cuddle with (big brother has his special Wall-E one)...and of course its Paw Patrol!

Cute boys with Paw Patrol, Arlo, Spot and Pout Pout Fish

Our treasured gift that AJ made at school!  I love anything with their handprint on it!!! :D

After presents and a yummy breakfast it was Lego time!  These were very happy boys :)

Identity crisis!!!  :D  Jake was super excited about his new Captain America sweatshirt and Flash shirt and so he had to wear them together.  Not sure who he is anymore ;)

Then we had to make Jesus' Birthday cake...another Brown family tradition we started when we moved here :)  Yeah...AJ...well is being my crazy AJ :)

The boys beautiful Birthday Cake

A very happy boy with his Mater made of Legos

Jake did an amazing job with his fire truck!  He built the whole thing mostly by himself!!!

The boys had a blast coloring their ornaments from Aunt Joanie :)

And of course we had to have a post Christmas slumber party with a friend!  The boys had a blast that morning with remote control cars...it was a crazy morning and luckily Piper survived :)

We also took AJ to his very first movie in a movie theater.  Had to pick something good to keep this crazy moving boy's interest and he HAD to see The Good Dinosaur, so off we went through the ice to see it!  :)  So this picture...the boy will not go near people in costume...but he will sit on this crazy cardboard guys lap...go figure! 

They were both ready for the movie (AJ might have picked it but Jake was super excited to see it too!)

I got to sit by this cute little guy!

Can you tell the movie is finally about to start and AJ is super excited?!?! :)

Then when we got home it was time for the boys to play in the ice.  We had quite a bit and they had a lot of fun literally skating on our back patio and grass!  It was a great day and after coming in to warm up with some hot cocoa we just enjoyed hanging out as a family!  Grandma Peg and Pa Wayne were coming soon!!!!