Christmas fun!

One of the boys' favorite things to do at Christmas is to come down to Indianapolis to see the Christmas lights.  We were lucky this year in that the weather cooperated.  The boys also love coming to the office to see the Christmas lights from my office.  We had such a fun time!

Santa Claus is Coming to Town!

It always amazes me how quickly Christmas sneaks up on us each and every year.  It seems like almost as soon as the boats are put up, that Christmas prepping begins.  I love watching the boys during this time of year.  They truly do have the Christmas spirit.  They are both so excited for Santa to come that they can hardly stand it!  We have an elf, Gunner, who is watching and reporting to Santa each and every night.  The boys are on their best behavior these days knowing that Gunner is watching - and they are quick to tell Gunner when the other one has done something wrong. I also ran into Santa a few weeks ago at the mall and he gave me a picture of himself which lights up. I explained to the boys, as Santa told me that when the lights are on, Santa is videoing them to make sure that they are behaving!  I love it that they are so young and so excited for this time of year.  I know that these years are limited so I am busy taking tons of pictures.  Here are a few of my favorites!

Halloween 2012

Our little potato and four-wheeler racer had an awesome Halloween!

Fall Favorites!

 Conner got to go 4-wheeling with his friend Makayla!  Makayla is quite the driver these days.  They had so much fun doing it all by themselves!

 MawMaw and PawPaw got the boys a brand new bed to try to help us cure our sleeping problems!  The boys love their bunk-beds (especially all of the storage) but only Conner is sleeping in the bed right now.  Drew is still sleeping on the couch...maybe one day!

 Conner's Thankful picture brings a smile every time I look at it.  His "people" Jason, me, Conner, Drew, MawMaw, and Remi are all getting better with each picture he draws.  It is so fun to watch him learn and grow!

Conner got his first buck! He is so excited and so proud.  Jason took him out the week before Thanksgiving to hunt from a deer blind.  I asked Conner what he did when he saw the buck and he said, "Mommy my heart was beating so fast I couldn't breathe very good!"  With a little help from Jason, they got it down and brought it home to show everyone!

The Tooth fairy's first visit!

Conner lost his first tooth on October 17th!  He was so excited to leave his tooth in his tooth fairy pillow.  For almost six weeks, this tooth (along with another that he lost about a week later) was only hanging by a thread.  He would not pull it out for anything.  On a good note, it gave me a few weeks to order a tooth fairy pillow.  It is camo (of course) and has a little zipper pocket to hold the tooth.  For his first tooth, the tooth fairy brought Conner ten dollars along with a note explaining that he brushes his teeth very well, that Santa says hello and that for his other teeth he would only get a dollar!  Thank goodness!  Conner was concerned with the tooth fairy's letter because all of the "e"s were upside down and the "s"'s were backwards.  He said she my need to go back to pre-K!