It's a feeling.......

A heartbeat......

Christmas.....

Today we celebrated Christmas with family.  Grandpa and Grandma Spillman, Omi B, Martin and Aunt Bria were all here to celebrate with us.  Eric made breakfast burritos again with his homemade salsa and pork green chili.  Once everyone was settled in we started opening gifts.  The boys made out like bandits.  And according to my mom. So did I (ok yeah it’s true)  After gifts we ate and played a couple games of marbles.  It was a really good day with Bria being able to stay longer than she thought she would and Craig and Belinda joining us for a longer while too.  Everyone left about 2:30 and the boys enjoyed playing with Christmas stuff for the rest of the afternoon. 

I didn’t get any pictures of the gifts Omi B got the boys, 3 games each for their new leap pads, they were already playing with them while we played marbles.  Auntie Bri also got Aragorn a game card for his leap pad.  Martin also got them bubbles, which is ALWAYS welcome. My mom also gave me 2 beautiful tops i can't wait to wear, and also some cold hard cash, cause who doesn't love that right? 

We ended the evening watching one of the boy’s new imaginex movies, and enjoying some birthday cake.

The loot

The end of our advent calender 100% done by the boys

Happy Birthday Jesus

Telescope for the boys from Gma & Gpa Spillman

Lincoln Logs from Gma & Gpa Spillman

New coat for Rohan from Gma & Gpa Spillman (notice the bronco colors)

The smurfs movie

I love his excitement

Hot wheels from Auntie Bria (he has been waiting MONTHS for that)

Just as cute as he can be

Tradition

Got a lil captain in you?



Me and my new knives

Gift from mom infinity scarf

Honey Badger don't care-gift from Bria

String scarf from mom

The BIG Santa gift-Skylander



Checking out the telescope

RO too

Pioneer vrs robots

Smash!!

Tabby's gifts

Marbles!!

Chillin in my snuggie from mom

New red tea pot <3

Red mixing bowls

Christmas Eve.....

We went to Christmas Eve service at the edge again this year. We haven't been to church in a while do to Eric's work schedule, and our need for some time off. We had gone back last week just to get the boys introduced to everyone again, and since the church has moved since we were there last, any new rules they would need to know. Last week Ryan did a sermon about King Harrod. For Christmas Eve's service, he chose to do a part II to last week's service and again spoke about King Herrod. Apparently king Herrod was a pretty evil man. Ryan said it was said "it was better to be one of his pigs than his son" because if he felt you were a threat to him, he had you killed. And so on and so forth. It seemed like an odd choice to me to do a 2 part sermon titled "The Dark side of Christmas" on Christmas eve, especially since all children ages 5 and up were in with the adults. This is only the second or third time Aragorn had been in the sermon with us, and i was a little disappointed on the subject. That aside, the service was great with Gena and the band rocking the house. To close the evening, we did a candle light service when they sang "O Holy night" 

When we came home Brianna was already here and had dinner ready (let me tell you how AWESOME that was!!) we hung out for a little while and played with the cool gift the boys got from our neighbor friends. After we put out some gingerbread doughnuts and milk for Santa we went outside and tossed our Santa mix oats for the reindeer and confetti so santa can see the driveway. After that the boys went to bed and we enjoyed a quet evening.....

Christmas Lights.....

We did our 2nd annual Christmas Lights tour on Tuesday.  We got Sonic again and Starbucks for me.  And just drove around.  We got to jam out to Christmas Music as we ooo'd and ahhh'd about all the lights.  The boys both fell asleep about 1 hour into it.

Colorado Christmas......

Living in Colorado, many would think we get a lot of snow for Christmas.  Now when we say this, i think of ON Christmas, that very rarely happens.  But every once in a while, we do get some fresh powder before the holiday.  This year it came the 22nd.  We got about 10-12 inches.  Eric spent almost 4 hours shoveling (yeah he LIKES winter).  Today the 23rd i decided to let the boys go nuts in the HUGE piles.  The got thrown into the piles, and got to throw snowballs at each other.  Hopefully we have some good sleepers tonight ;-)

"This is my snowball"

"And throw!"

Tossed in

Pretty cool actually

Colorado waves

Would love to remember to take one like this for the next several years

Snowball fight!

BAHM!!

I asked for them to pose, and this is what they gave me........

But then, they gave me this one.......