Merry Christmas!

We had a fun Christmas being silly and spending time with friends and family!

Daddy and his boys!

We made cookies to share with all our visiting cousins and aunts and uncles.
Cole is a pro with the spatula!

Dylan was so excited to read him name written all of the wrapping paper of this gift from Nana.
The boys were so excited about all their gifts. Every gift Cole opened or watched being open he would shout out with supreme joy and excitement. He would shout 'ha haaaaaa' in his funny deep voice.
Their excitement was profound for their gifts that ranged from a fun pink pillow...
...to a cool building set...

...to the amazing drill set...

...to the array of cars and truck they got.

We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a fabulously amazing New Year!!

Holiday Fun

We have been very busy this week with many holiday activities.
But we always make time to be silly!!

We got to ride the 'Holiday Trolley' to downtown Corvallis...

...while downtown we stopped at our favorite book store and got a couple of books. Before heading back home on the trolley Daddy read the books to the boys while they were eating a snack at a coffee shop.

We had several holiday parties that we went to this week, including a 'celebration of peace' at the boys school. Cole is in the middle of this picture...sitting amongst his classmates.

Here is Dylan with his classmates (they are in different classes). They were excited to sing 'holiday' songs and talked about it for days...but didn't open their mouth once to sing during the whole gathering!

Speaking of holiday songs...the boys are very into singing Jingle Bells and have been playing the piano while singing it lately. They even found some Christmas sheet music of Mommy's and got a music stand out, put the up sheet music and proceeded to stand in front of the music and sing their different versions of Jingle Bells.Here is a great video of Cole playing the piano...he's not singing Jingle Bells in this one...but it's still great.

O Chirstmas Tree!

This weekend we headed out to our favorite Christmas tree farm. We took a sleigh ride out to the trees (we would have taken a picture of us in the 'sleigh' which as a trailer behind a pickup truck that was decorated like a sleigh, but we were holding onto our children for dear life since there were no seats and only flimsy wood on the sides! But the boys loved it and didn't even notice that mommy was holding on to them white knuckled.)
Here Daddy is talking safety rules regarding saws. Our friend Jonah is also listening intently.

The boys are assessing the situation and determining the best route to the trunk.

Heave ho!

Not a bad back drop to the event.

The guys are pleased with their work!

boys in neck ties

When Grandpa Phil and Karen were visiting, Karen gave the boys their first neck ties...

They were so excited and wanted to wear them on all of their shirts.

What's that look in his eye??

Anyways, once they put the ties on...out of the blue this is what they said:

I think that Grandpa Charlie is the only person they have seen in a suit and tie that they know! They sure haven't seen their Daddy in one!