Pictures of the older boys

James and Will are very busy every day. They are busy either playing with their friends or with each other. They are super into beyblades, which they don't have yet, so they are driving William and I nuts over, they also love ninjago, rugrats (the show), and their scooters. Will has lost two teeth and loves the tooth fairy, as she is helping h save money for the beyblades that he is so crazy for. James is getting better at writing his name and listening to his mommy. They are getting so big and so fun to play with. Here are some random pics of these sweeties and one of Jeff, who is always talking!

4 months old!

Jefferson is now four months old. He is so much fun! He loves to smile and gives the best belly laughs. He loves being the center of attention, which beleive me he definitely is. He has now discovered toys! If you put him down and don't give him toys he screams at you until you give him some. He usually sleeps about 10 hours at night until waking up to feed and go back to sleep again. He does not like tummy time, but I have been trying to get him to grow his muscles, so I make him keep to a daily regimen of 20 minutes of yummy time. Thanks to the tummy time he can now hold up his head and push himself up onto his forearms! He has yet to roll over but I hope with continued tummy time he will do it soon. He is learning to sit up on his own. Right now it looks like he'd folded himself up but he's getting there! His favorite time of the day is bath time! He loves being naked so getting ready for bath time and the bath itself is when he is his happiest. He loves to kick and splash in the bath. In fact he is so good at splashing us we are usually wet when he gets done with his bath. We also recently got out his jumperoo and he loves to jump in it while playing with its cool toys. Because of the jumperoo he loves to stand on your lap when we hold him now. We feel so lucky to have this sweet baby in our family!

New Years Eve!

This year we had a wonderful time celebrating New Years with some good friends, Kenny and Ronda Diehl. We all went bowling at the Santa Fe Station casino. They had a special New Years Eve cosmic bowling celebration. The Diehls are master bowlers who compete on bowling leagues, unlike us who have gone once with the kids in the last 8 years! Needless to say we all had the best time. To get ready for the night the boys took a great nap that late afternoon and were able stay up until after midnight. James did fall asleep on Williams shoulder while going back to the car. Even Jeff did amazing. I was afraid that all the noise may bother him, but he nursed and promptly fell asleep. He slept the rest of the night. We all had a wonderful night eating pizza and bowling. Then at midnight we all blew noise makers and toasted our cups of sprite. It was a magical night!

My funny man

Tonight we went window shopping for a new artificial tree. While window shopping we realized that we had some gift cards for the boys that they could use to get some great items on the cheap from all the Christmas clearances. James had a gift certificate to Walmart and Will had one for Target. We went to Walmart first and James got a great toy, while checking out Lil'Will continues to tell the cashier all about how James had a gift card there and how he had one for Target and how he couldn't wait to go there and get his toy. He then continues to ramble on and on about Christmas s when he takes a break to breathe she rings us up and talks to William while we finish checking out. Lil'Will then stops and looks at me and goes, I don't know why I just did that! I couldn't help but laugh and tell him cause he is his fathers son! Just can't have silence. I just love my funny man. He really has become a talker and he loves to talk to any adult who will listen! This just a cute picture I had of my little guy and his baby brother.

Christmas eve fun!

We had a lot of fun Christmas Eve. After spending some time ice skating we came home and tracked Santa on the NORAD Santa tracker. The picture below is of Lil'Will tracking Santa. He was very diligent on tracking Santas whereabouts. After reading the Christmas story the boys took their bath. While they were bathing the secret Christmas elf came and dropped off a special present for each of the boys. It was their Christmas jammies! Lil'Will was excited for them cause they had feets! James on the other hand was sorely disappointed that he didn't get a toy! It was funny. I am so thankful for my sweet boys! I love them so much!

Ice skating at the London Bridge Resort

We were so lucky this year to go ice skating at the London Bridge Resort. It was something new they did this year and it was so much fun. We went Christmas eve and skated for about an hour. James was a natural, Lil'Will fell a ton but he loved every minute he was on the ice. Baby Jeff waited on the sidelines with whatever adult needed a break. The best though was watching cousin Trent! He was like watching Bambi learning to walk. The kid spent most his time laying on the ice. Even with all his awkwardness he still had girls flirting with him. We enjoyed our time skating so much we can't wait to find a place in Vegas and go again!

Christmas morning

We are spending Christmas with Nana and Trent this year. The boys were so good and slept in until 9! William had to go and wake them up. There are pictures of William waking up each boy them running to see the presents and them opening their gifts. It was such a wonderful day!