Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2014

It's Christmas morning and the boys are ready to see if Santa came.

Santa was here!

Santa brought Cort a skateboard, Nerf gun and Lego's!

Santa brought Keaton a scooter, Nerf gun and Lego's.

Santa brought Gage a tent, Nerf gun and Olaf with snowballs!

Christmas morning excitement!

Look at my new Paw Patrol book too!

Gage's first Nerf gun.

I think he is planning his attack for the first snowball fight.

Cort loves his new skateboard.

Gage with Nana, Pawpaw and Olaf!

Gage and Rubble

Cort and Keaton working as a team to open gifts!

Did someone invite a Ninja Turtle to Christmas?

Cort got a 2DS from mom and dad.

And Keaton got an IPhone.
BEST CHRISTMAS EVER!

Reindeer cousins!
We spent Christmas afternoon at Nana's House.

Round 2 of gifts from Nana and Pawpaw and Adam and Julie.

Cort photo bombing Aunt Kerrie.

Gage was super excited about his first Lego set from Adam and Julie.

I don't remember what was in the bag, but Cort looks really excited too!

Pokemon!  One of Keaton's favorites.  

A cool race car for this cool kid!

How can you go wrong when you combine two great things?
Minecraft and Lego's!

Everybody wanted Kayla's dinosaur.

I think Rudolph had a great Christmas!

If all that wasn't enough, we still have more Christmas.  Gee and Papa Dan came for New Year's Eve and we opened more gifts.  Gage got a new pair of boots!

Aunt Kerrie with her new power tools!

Daddy got new knives.

Jake The Neverland Pirate!

Now Gage can sleep with Olaf on his new Olaf sheets!

We love puzzles!  We had fun putting this one together over Christmas break.

Christmas morning madness on New Year's Eve!

That night we joined our neighbors outside for some sparklers and fireworks.

Cort helping daddy with the fireworks.

And Keaton

No fireworks for Gage, just a cute picture by the inflatable.  

Happy New Year!!!
We say goodbye to 2014 and hope for a better year in 2015!

Christmas Festivities 2014

Every year our neighborhood hosts Santa at the Gazebo Park.  Gage was really excited to write his letter to Santa.

We rode the train while we waited on Santa to arrive.

Gage giving his letter to Santa and telling him what he wanted for Christmas.

Gage, age 5, with Santa.

Guess who is back and she brought a letter and candy canes!

Gage was so excited to see her!

Can you find the ELF?

She is on a sleigh ride with the snowman!

And of course elves love syrup!

One morning we found that she had built a train track.

The elf was a fan of our GOD sign!

This year we made paper snowflakes.  We even found a template to make these cool star war shaped ones too!

We decorated the back door with our beautiful snowflakes!

Cort's 4th grade Class Christmas party.
Ms. Alvarez
Cort with our back neighbor, Cooper.

This is the only year that Cort was at elementary by himself.  This means I got to stay at his party the whole time instead of splitting my time between two parties.  Next year, Gage starts Kinder.

Time and time again, Cort is proven to be a class favorite.  He was chosen to be the snowman.  

His team had to decorate him with toilet paper.

Black hat and black buttons.

And a carrot nose!

Cort and Ms. Alvarez

Did you know Cort and Zeke were in the movie Elf?
Ha!  This was a poster advertising the children's ministry at church. 

Christmas Eve service at Copperfield Church.

with Nana and Pawpaw

And Aunt Kerrie

Cort and Kerrie selfie

We would love a white Christmas, but will take what we can get.  It snowed under the church pavilion while we enjoyed hot chocolate and cookies!

After the church service we had a tamale dinner at Nana's house and more family joined us.
Aunt Debi, Uncle David, Abby and Xander

And Mayumi, Patrick and Samuel

Samuel, Cort, Gage, Keaton holding Xander
Hey two times in one month Keaton is holding a baby.  With all this practice, maybe he will start babysitting soon!

Mark and Samuel

Now the Cookies and milk are left for Santa...

 and the kids are tucked in bed with visions of fairy plums dancing in their heads.