Celebration!

Christmas. Was. Great.

This is the first time (ever) that we haven't had the opportunity to celebrate the holiday with extended family. We made the best of it and ended up having an excellent holiday! Christmas Eve we had a traditional dinner (well traditional in my family) and Mason said 'Mom, this is the best Christmas Ever!' Mind you, this was the night before we opened gifts.

Christmas morning was perfect. The boys woke us up ecstatic that Santa had been here. Lucky for them, they got everything on their Christmas lists and more. They were so happy with even the smallest of gifts. We had a very low key day and truly enjoyed the spirit of the holiday. Our boys are so awesome!


Let's open presents already!

 This is the one I wanted!



Mobigo aka Kid iPad - so excited!



Optimus Prime!



 

Jack & Annie books - thanks Grandma!

 

  

Some presents were for two  



Cutest brothers

  

Air hockey anyone?

 

A December to Remember

December was jam packed for us - as I'm sure it was for most of you.

At the beginning of the month we were busy decorating our house for the holidays - the first year at a new house is always a challenge to figure out where everything will go. The boys picked out our live Christmas tree (and chose a great one!) and the time spent decorating was fun! Did I mention we had Batman here to help? That always makes a difference :) 



We had to put the star on top a couple of times



                                            

  

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We also had our annual St. Nick's celebration. My mom and nephew Zach were here for the event. We had a great time celebrating and decorating our houses. Spence was pretty detailed in his and Mason was very focused on loading the candy up on any bare spot...he also wanted his picture taken 'eating' the candies (case in point below). Zach had a very unique house as it was falling apart before he even got started...we had to super 'glue' it together with lots of extra frosting. He made it work though.

   

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Micah and I attended our 2nd annual GoDaddy Holiday Party. It is an amazing event held at the Ballpark. With an all American theme they went all out - they had a Mt. Rushmore made of sand, a smaller scale version of the Statue of Liberty, a Hollywood red carpet complete with paparazzi and the Golden Gate Bridge (among other things). Not to mention some great food and entertainment! Some big name country music stars - Trace Adkins & Dirx Bentley - and Kid Rock were the main performers. The founder gave away a ton of money to the employees, but as we are not very lucky, we didn't win any. But all in all a very fun evening.

More to come about the end of the month in future posts :)

shut it

For the love. Our neighbor has the barkiest, barking, little barker dogs EVER. They bark all hours of the day and night. In the city of Phoenix you have to fill out all of this paperwork and possibly go to court to have it resolved. Really? They have a direct hotline for crowing roosters but the number for barking dogs is a recording directing you to the form to fill out. Seriously?

If I am this annoyed, those of you that know my hubby can imagine how happy he is with these pups. Hopefully we will be on our way to resolution soon.

batman, a pirate, a queen and a daddy

Halloween 2011 was a big success!

Mason was the cutest lil' batman to date.

Spence was a pirate - arrgh matey!

I was Queen Elizabeth.

And Micah. Well, Micah was home on Halloween, which was great!

SD

the big celebration

For Spencer's birthday bash we decided to go to a resort and have a swimming party - complete with a little guy pool, splashpad, wave pool and lazy river. It was a blast! I wasn't sure if it would be hot enough for us to be in the pool all day in mid October but lucky for us it was. Fun times!