Putting up the tree

This year the boys were actually pretty helpful in putting up the Christmas tree. Although I did have to do a little rearranging of ornaments! It was a fun time.






Collin being silly


This was me saying, "stand together and smile"...


The almost final product

Hmm, it seems I forgot to snap another picture once we got the ribbon on and the star on the top! Oops! Well, it was pretty!

Updating with a new look

Happy Holidays! I am attempting to update my blog and catchup on all the posts I've missed in the last couple of months, so I thought I'd give it a more festive look too!

Those of you that know me well, know that I am a procrastinator by nature. Add in pregnancy exhaustion and that's why this poor blog has been neglected for over two months. Ah well, no time like the present.

I'm going to post-date the entries so that they are in the correct month of occurrence, so check back at months Sept-Nov!

Snow in Texas!?

One morning in the beginning of December, we awoke to a beautiful snow. It only snowed for about 45 minutes, but it was a pretty snowfall. The boys were glued to the window watching the flakes fall. I think this is the first time they remember seeing it snow. They had preschool that morning so I bundled them up and took a quick photo with the snow before they headed off to school.



Surprisingly, it snowed two more times in December (Christmas Eve and a couple of days before New Years)! Christmas Eve it even snowed enough for the boys to have a snowball fight with their daddy. They loved it, but unfortunately I didn't get any pics!

Photo shoot

November went by with a blink of an eye, and it looks like I didn't take many pictures! We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with our families. The day after Thanksgiving my sisters and I got together and took the boys to the park for a little photo shoot for Christmas cards.

Brendan in red, Collin in brown











And here's a picture that caught a glimpse of my growing baby belly (more on that soon)

Imagination at work

One afternoon Brendan decided to make a choo-choo train out of our ottomans and whatever else he could find. Collin joined in and they had an hour of fun just using their imagination. I love watching them be creative!

Please excuse the lack of pants..

Trick or Treating

Our superheroes had a great time trick-or-treating this year! They were really good about saying "trick or treat" at each door, and didn't want to stop! I didn't take too many pictures because I was so tired from working all day...but here are my superheroes.

In the Halloween spirit

We carved a pumpkin for the first year with the boys and they had a blast. Mike complained about how long it took to carve Cookie Monster though, so we only got one pumpkin carved!

Please excuse the clothes-less boys, but pumpkin carving is messy!

The final product, Cookie Monster:

And a pic of the boys in cute Halloween PJs that Aunt Mandy got them: