Checking stockings first

Christmas morning

Santa and his reindeer seemed to have enjoyed the goodies:

In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there...

Chase and Cole made these cool Christmas tree cookies for Santa. They're inverted ice cream cones covered (using their fingers) with icing tinted green with food coloring, then rolled in sprinkles and covered with m&m ornaments. There was also, of course, a carrot for the reindeer and a glass of milk for Santa. They wrote & colored notes for Santa too. They wanted to hang their stockings on the mantel, but after Cole pulled his down a few days ago, we decided that laying them out in front of the fireplace would be safer. Then they actually went to bed. In their own beds. And stayed there. Whodathunkit?

Being Good For Goodness' Sake

Christmas Card Bloopers

Tried to get a nice, dignified Christmas card picture of the boys last night. Hmphf. You can imagine what happened:

Merry & Bright

What more can you expect from boys?

This weekend at Nana & Papa's house, Chase & Cole got to open some of their Christmas presents early. They got lots of good boy toys:

With all these great new toys to play with, you can imagine what they did all day:




For their birthdays, we're getting them a bigger box.