Wonderful Christmas

Christmas was so relaxing and wonderful this year. Christmas Eve David went shopping with his dad. It's their annual thing that drives me crazy but whatever. The kids and I spent the day hanging out and playing and smelling the wonderful stew that was cooking all day. After dinner the kids opened their presents and had a blast.

Wyatt with his tool box/stool. Too bad it fell apart by the next day. I learned alot about toys this Christmas. Specifically what NOT to buy.

Wyatt took the unwrapping VERY seriously.

He was very excited about this big crate of musical instruments.

I finally got pictures of me with the kids.

Wish I would have thought ahead and put makeup on. Oh well, it's the memories that count and they were AMAZING!. Notice the tv in the background. We have AT&T UVerse and their Santa Tracker was soooo cool. In addition to tracking santa they also had, games to play, music, and movies, etc. Good Job AT&T we enjoyed it!

Whitney was cracking me up opening presents. She is a very "hands on" girl. She knew exactly what she was doing.

My baby girl!

Cheesy family shot. It's really hard to get both kids to smile at the same time. FYI -After this pic I took pictures of David with the kids but....You won't see them posted because his eyes are closed in just about all of them. Probably because the new flash is so powerful it practically blinds you.

The Tree.

Christmas PJ picture. This is Wyatt's idea of holding her up. At least she thinks its funny!

I couldn't help but feel young again getting everyone ready for bed on Christmas Eve. The spirit of the evening was so fun. Wyatt's getting the cookies ready for Santa. FYI- cuz I know you'll notice in the picture, Yes Santa LOVES store bought cookies with m&m's.

Cookies and Milk are ready for Santa. Wyatt was so excited!

Christmas Morning started at 5 am! Wyatt woke up wide awake. I picked him up and took him straight to our bed. I didn't say a word about the presents. Usually if we do this he goes back to sleep. However, this particular morning he did not. He kept sitting up and tossing around. An hour later I hear this sweet little whisper "Momma, presents?". I said do you want to see what Santa brought you? He said very enthusiastically YES! So we had our Santa party at 6 am!

One of his big presents was his Buzz Light Year Bike. This is his first bike and he absolutely loves it. Can't ride it yet but I have a feeling it's only a matter of time before he'll be a pro at it.

Wyatt with his bike.

Christmas Day Part 2

The fun continued Christmas afternoon. Before we went to David's brothers house his parents came over. Wyatt got to open MORE presents.

Wyatt and his Papa playing with the 2 tractors he got.


Whitney was such a good baby on Christmas. She even missed 2 naps that afternoon but you would have never known it. Santa put a Sophie the Giraffe teether in her stocking. She LOVES it! Anybody else notice the bow is as BIG as her head. LOVE IT!


She's sitting up now. We're still on standby next to her, but she's doing really good.

Nana Diana, Wyatt, Whitney, Papa

Diana, Katrina, Charles, Charley

Wyatt's cousins Erin and Emma.

Uncle Chuck teaching Wyatt how to play the guitar.

Santa Baby

I was playing around with the new flash on the camera. And these are the pics. Such cute Santa "babies"!

Big brother had to get in on the action. He's started this totally fake cheese smile. So silly.

Christmas Break

The presents are bought and wrapped. The cookies are baked. The cameras are charged. Let Christmas begin!!!
We made a gingerbread house today. Which was a ton of fun. Wyatt was very meticulous about where he put his pieces. He kept asking "Momma, where this go?" Here's the before shot....



Evidently gingerbread house icing has to set for 15 minutes before you decorate the house. So.....we went outside to rake a.k.a. play in the leaves.
Wyatt was cracking me up. I had my back to him bending down and next thing I know I hear this giggle and he's running up to me and.....throws handfuls of leaves on me and runs away. He was laughing so hard. It was so cute to see how proud he was of himself. So of course I had to go grab my camera and takes some pictures. This picture is so adorable. But a little concerning. He looks a little too excited to throw leaves all over Mommy.



I raked a big pile and he had the best time running and jumping in it.

Back to the gingerbread house.

Final Prouduct....

Wyatt is watching his very special email from Santa. I had no idea 2 year olds got the concept of Santa. But this boy totally gets it. Makes Christmas all the more exciting this year!

Whitney ate her dinner in Wyatt's old high chair for the first time tonight. Wyatt was a little reserved about it but once we put her in he was great. I love how much he loves his little sister and how she looks at him with such adoring eyes.

She looks like she's saying "Ok mom, enough with the pictures. Where's my dinner?"

I day till Christmas! So exciting!!!

Christmas Time

So it seems like just yesterday my daughter was born and now she's 6 months old and it's Christmas! Where did the time go?!? The last couple of weeks have been very busy around our house. Wish I had pictures to capture them all...but I don't. The flash bulb on our camera just bit the dust. Evidently the only way to fix it, is to mail it off and it could take up to 6 weeks to get it back. Who's not a happy camper....ME!!! It's Whitney's first christmas and I need to take atleast 200 pictures. She only has about 10 different Christmas outfits that she needs her pictures taken in. Argh!! Some of these pictures are not the best because they were either from my phone or an old camera. We did buy a fancy new flash to put on top of the camera that only weighs about 10 pounds. And I have no earthly idea how to use it. It came with a manual that looks like it's in English but I don't understand a thing it says. So Santa, can you please mysteriously return the flash and bring me a new camera. Nothing fancy just something to get the job done. As close to professional as possibly though. Thanks. Now onto the pictures...

This is the last picture I took before the bulb went out. So it's also the only picture I have of us decorating the tree. Wyatt was a GREAT helper (for about 10 seconds). I'm hoping next year he'll help for atleast 20 seconds.



Last Saturday we had our first christmas gathering at my moms. Didn't get alot of pictures, cuz we couldn't figure out the new flash. Those pictures turned out very scary. Here's a few that turned out.
Whitney enjoying the bag NOT the gift.


Look who got a buzz lightyear backpack!!! He was so excited. Christmas will be soooo fun this year with him. Can't wait to see his reactions to opening the gifts.



Chilling out last sunday after his bath.

Wyatt took his shopping at Market Days at the school very seriously! Alex did such a great job helping Wyatt pick out the perfect ornament. You might think we put this very valuable, time consuming ornament on our tree....Nope, I have no idea where it is.

These pics were from Wyatt's Christmas party at school. He totally has the "cheese" thing down. If we could get him to look at the camera while he's saying Cheese. Now THAT would be an accomplishment.

This is not a great picture but I had to post it. Wyatt was so excited about the book he got at their book exchange. Look at the vein poking out of his neck. He wanted to tell everyone!

Taking his gingerbread house craft very seriously.

Oh look, he is looking at the camera saying cheese.

My little ham.

I get to see Wyatt pretty much all day since I work there, but I never get to spend time with him in the class. He's figured out that party days I get to sit down with him and he gets SUPER pumped about it. We had soo much fun.

Do you see the awesome shirt I'm wearing. My kiddos teachers surprised me with this t-shirt. It's a wreath with the hand prints being wyatt's and the footprints Whitneys. Thank you so much girls. That is a gift I will treasure forever!

Whitney loves Santa Claus.

This picture has quite the story to go with it. I got off early one afternoon and left the kiddos at school. I received a text with this picture and got so excited and a little teary eyed. What a surprise my children are with Santa and smiling! Whitney will smile at just about anything or anyone. Wyatt on the other hand is more cautious with his smiles. And Santa right now your not on the list to receive smiles (unless your at a distance). Well, Ms. Ashley Norris had mistakeningly walked into the office with her plate of cake. Wyatt got excited when he saw cake. They couldn't get him to smile so Ashley put her cake on her head and stood behind Lizz, while Lori was making Whitney smile. How many Sloan teachers does it take to get my kids pictures with Santa? Evidently 3. Thank you so much for capturing this memory for me. Love it!

Last tuesday we went to basspro for pics with Santa. Here's Whitney being such a trooper hanging out in her stroller. It was her naptime but she did great.

Here's the pic. Notice, I'm in it :( We were the 4th family in line and all the kids before us did great. Wyatt was even waving to santa while in line. But as soon as we got up there everything changed. I handed Whitney to Santa and turned around to get Wyatt. He came very easily to me but preceded to clinch his knees for dear life. That boy has some serious strength in his knees. So needless to say I stayed in the picture because by that point the line was really long and I didn't want Wyatt screaming to freak out all the other kids. Oh well, maybe next year will be better. Dont' know why the pic is turned the wrong way. Sorry.