We had a very Merry Christmas! The boys were so excited when they woke up! Ethan even pointed down the stairs at all the presents that Santa left for them.



Their favorite presents were the bulldozers and the inflatable trampoline (lets hope it doesn't pop soon). It was a lot of fun watching them open the presents and play with them; they are really able to have fun with Christmas and we are enjoying that.

Oh, I forgot to mention a cute thing that Isaac does. Derek and I both call him and Ethan buddy at different times. Now when Ethan gets hurt or is crying he leans over and says "it's okay buddy" or "sorry buddy" and gives him kisses and hugs. He also made a funny comment while we were eating dinner at Aunt Tammy's house. He leaned over to his cousin AJ and asked, "yummy AJ?".

We experienced a winter Blizard yesterday!!

This is a picture of our car barried in the snow! We had to dig it out and the snow around it was about 4 ft. deep. There was a lot of wind which made large snow banks that went to the top of our 6 ft. fence but left traces of the grass in our backyard.

The boys had so much fun playing in the snow all morning! They wanted us to throw them in the large banks; and they made forts with daddy in the backyard. The best thing that they were so excited about was that a bulldozer "front loader" was the thing that moved some of the snow in front of our driveway.

Ethan and Isaac love to finger paint. In fact they love it so much that that is all that they want to do most days. It's really messy, but hey they're only little once right.

The other thing that they boys love to do with daddy is put their favorite blankets on their heads and waists, and they dance around to music.

"Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas"

Both boys use to say "Hi, Hi, Hi" (to be funny) when you asked what Santa Claus said; but Saturday we went to a church Christmas party and saw Santa. So now they say "Ho, Ho, Ho". Ethan was a little afraid to sit on his lap but as soon as he saw that Santa was giving candy to those that sat on his lap he immediately wanted to. They are starting understanding who Santa is after that; they say he brings candy to you.

This week I am in the middle of trying to potty train the boys. They are doing pretty well; but this is definetly a job I have dreaded doing for a long time. If any of you have suggestions I would love to hear them. I feel like I am reading every book on the planet about it.

The day before Thanksgiving we took the boys to an Eagles Hockey game. They loved the mascot!! We would search for the mascot Eagle throughout the game; and in the 3rd period as we were coming back into the arena the Eagle was coming out of our section. Ethan and Isaac were so thrilled!! They were able to shake his hand and he gave Ethan a kiss. Now when ever we talk about our trip to the Eagles game they say "let's go again!"

On Thursday we were playing with playdough and Isaac decided to put it on his nose to be a clown; and then we made mustaches. I thought I would share the pictures with you.

The boys had a lot of fun collecting treats before and on Halloween. Saturday we went with Katie's brother, sister and mom to Loveland's old town. We had at least 100 comments on the Thing 1/Thing 2 costumes. I actually started counting after there were so many, for fun.

On halloween I took them to 5 or 6 houses on our block and I always asked them if they wanted to go to more doors or go home and they always wanted more doors since they knew that they could get more candy. It is so much fun now that they enjoy halloween; we can't wait until Christmas and Easter.

Tonight Derek and Ethan were both wearing a Superman shirt. As Derek put it on Ethan he said "look we are both Superman." Ethan went and stood on the side of Derek and counted one, two Superman as he pointed it out with his finger. It was really cute!

The other picture is Derek reading "daddy's book" to the boys. They were so cute I had to take a picture in the middle of the story.

We took another trip to The Martinez Farm Saturday and the boys wore their costumes. They are Thing 1 and Thing 2 this year. I figure that I should put them in cute matching theme costumes while I get to decide what they wear.

There was a man painting faces so Isaac wanted Blue and Ethan wanted a ladybug. By the end of our trip both face paintings were smeared over their face and hands. We also got to go on a hayride; lots of fun!

On Saturday we were able to go to the Martinez Farm in Fort Collins with Derek's family. It was a lot of fun. The boys loved the animals! They fed leaves to the cows and goats; and rode ponies named Brownie and Cassidy. Ethan is wearing yellow and Isaac is in white. I am currently getting pictures of them on the ponies.

I decided that this might help me remember the fun times when life has flown by; and those of you who are wondering what is going on in our lives, you can find out here. I have a friend who created a blog for her family and it is so cute, I want to try it too.

I will post the most recent cute pictures of the boys and the funny things they did that day. Like today I asked Isaac to give me a hug and Ethan said "hug Ethan" and gave himself a hug. It was so unexpected that it was hilarious. Ethan would usually want to hug either Derek or me also, instead of hugging himself.

I thought a picture of Ethan smiling would be appropriate.