Merry Christmas and Happy 100th Post!

Merry Christmas! We had a wonderful Christmas this year. Nice and quiet and low key.... it was perfect. My camera pooped out on Christmas Eve so with the help of my sister and brother in law we got my pictures off my memory card and then put it into a borrowed camera so we could get all the fun pictures until Ben and I could get another camera. Thank you Lindsay and Ryan!

So here are our holiday pics.

Here is me and Mya. This is the one of Mike and Lindsay's puppies. She's super cute and ready to explore. This one is going to Lindsay's sister in AZ.

Here's Alex with all the puppies.The boys are playing with Grandma Bonnie's Thomas Train that goes around her tree.

Here are my boys playing. Love them!

Here's the tree before any of the boys got up.

Dad and Spencer. He is not a morning person.

Alex enjoying a treat as he opens his present from his Preschool teacher Miss Jennifer.

Alex is loving his movie "Babe"

Notice something different about Ben? He finally got contacts! Yea! No more getting poked in the eyes when we kiss. He's also enjoying Stephie's presents from Alaska.

Steph got Izzy some fur lined booties.

And dad got his signed copy of the Sarah Palin book. We all got a real good laugh at that.

Grandma trying to wrap up Spence.

Grandma got each of the couples a remote controlled helicopter. Spencer was in love with them and just laughed every time they came down. He would run over to it and try and smother it. As you can see it took a few people to keep him away from them :)

Mike is practicing his skills.

And Spencer just giggling at them.

We also got to talk to Dani for the last time before she comes home in April. It seems so short but feels like so long since she was here. We talked to Stephie as well. She's coming in New Year's Eve and gets to stay a week before she heads back and gets ready for her training to be deployed to Iraq in April.

We love our family and are grateful for the time we were able to spend with all of them over the last few weeks. Hoping 2010 will be a wonderful and safe year for everyone.

What Alex likes

I just asked Alex what he wanted to eat this week cause I'm making up my grocery list. He said he didn't know, so I asked him what we eat that he likes and he says, "I like to eat at Grandma's house. We eat Mac and Cheese and cottage cheese and cheese........ oh yeah and salad." Anything with cheese in it and Alex is up for it. Now I know why he gets along so well with Aunt Lindsay. Cheese addicts.

This never happens

On a really really good day I'll get one of my boys to take a nap. But never both on the SAME day at the SAME time. Well here is proof that miracles happen. Both boys asleep - in their own rooms. At least Alex made it to his bed.

My cute sleeping babies.