Here are the boys digging for rocks and gems like little archeologists.
What a fun activity for all the boys! (I’m pretty sure Alex loved it too :) And my brothers were here so they got in on it too. Jeremy even found the piece of clear quartz after we thought everything had been found already.
Look what they discovered!
Three little wizards….
and a blue bag ;)
Zzzzzz
Here are some fun pictures of the boys with my brothers. Thank you David and Jeremy for being such fun uncles. We love you :)
The kids love Jeremy’s game boy. They call it “the blue thing”… I guess that shows how much they know (or don’t know) about Nintendo ;) They are used to computer games, but actual video games are quite the novelty.
A few days after Christmas we made cookies…
And tried out the new stomp rockets at the park with grandparents and uncles.
On Christmas Eve my parents and brothers arrived.
Tyler tried on someone’s glasses (maybe Grandma Beth’s?). He looks like quite the little intellectual, don’t you think :)
The tree and presents on Christmas Eve.
Christmas Morning!
The kids each opened one present, and looked at their stockings before church, and we saved the rest until we got home.
Ready for church.
When we got home the total present chaos began! Oh what fun :)
What a cute little man Erik is!
Now that is one studly little carpenter, if I do say so myself.
We had a great Christmas :)
Adam has been wanting a Captain America shield the past few weeks. We still have lots of thick cardboard from the stable building project, so on Monday I got the idea to try and make a shield out of cardboard for Adam. This started out as a project I was doing with the kids…but soon I realized it was too hard to cut the thick cardboard with a knife or scissors, so we needed Alex’s help. When Alex got home he mostly took over the project, but I am glad he did because the shields turned out great, and I was getting a bit frustrated with the project by then anyways.
Amazingly Alex had silver, sparkly blue, red, and white paint left over from other things. Plus the shiny clear top coat to cover it all. I was just going to use the kids’ red and blue tempera paints on a white poster board background, glued to the cardboard – but clearly this project got kicked up to a much more “polished” level by Daddy. We could have used these for Christmas presents if we had kept them a secret, but that’s okay. I didn’t plan ahead enough for that idea. I love how they turned out and so do the boys! Thank you Daddy :) Adam hardly ever put his shield down yesterday!
And Tyler has a little shield made from a paper plate too! I made this one all by myself, thank you very much - impressive I know ;)
In other news, here’s what the boys were doing this afternoon:
Happy day before Christmas Eve!
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