Welcome 2011

Based on today, 2011 is going to be a GREAT year!  We woke up to wonderful weather and kiddos that slept in (yes we did have them running wild with their friends until after 11pm..)  The weather today was 70 and perfect.  We took full advantage of it and went to a wonderful park here about 20min away.  The park has awesome running/walking trails and the kiddos lucked out with some great puddles to jump in! 

Ahhhh a tank top in Jan 1st!!

Going for a puddle (yes I took my crazy pill and said go for it)!

Needless to say their clothes are still soaking in the washer!  The video below shows it all!!

SaNtA!!!!!!

I don't know who was more excited Christmas morning the kiddos or me!!  I think I woke up four times that night to look at the clock!  When the kid's woke up Drew went running to the living room and was amazed at the mess Santa made with the cookies, and how he helped himself;) 

One of the items Santa brought was a new table and chairs for the kid's the kid's LOVED it.  They spend seriously ten minutes looking through the baskets under the table before they even noticed there was presents!

Drew opened up a new left handed baseball glove! 

I wish you could hear Claire's voice when she saw her Go Go My Walking Dog.  She was pretending to cry and was cooing at the puppy with excitement!

The chap stick in the stocking is always a hit...

Our Christmas morning was complete with our awesome friends Matt and Tristin coming over for a huge brunch!

Cooking Time!!

Christmas Eve day we took out the aprons and started to bake cookies for Santa!

Drew had a plan with his cookies...

And then their was Claire that didn't want to cut one cookies, but eat the dough...

CAUGHT!   SO, this is how I found her.. I left her in her chair while I went to clear the table and when I came back she took the ONLY cookies she decorated and was eating it while standing... dangerously...;)

One of our traditions since I've known Andy is to make homemade pizza on Christmas Eve.  The kiddos love it and it's so much fun!

Christmas Eve From The Grandparents

Another tradition for Christmas is opening the gifts from the grandparents on Christmas Eve!  We have done this now since Drew has been born and we really enjoy it.  Christmas day then is only Santa.  It's also nice as the kiddos then hear and know that these are not from Santa, but the grandparents.  When Claire opened her gifts every piece of paper she would look at us so serious and say, "thank you"! 

Drew was in Toy Story heaven thank you Mimi and Papa!!

I dont' know who was more excited Andy or Drew with a race track from grandpa and grandma!

This cleaning cart will come on great as I actually filled it up with water and had the kiddos go wild cleaning the windows!!

Potty Time!

So Claire LOVES the bathroom!  She loves to play in the sink, tub time, and yes the toilet.  So I figured she's now eighteen months so why not get her a little toilet.  Thinking that she would just play with it,  I went out and bought her this cheap $2.00 toilet.  Andy took it to the bathroom and told her sit and go potty (not thinking she would) She sat.. and went potty!!!  It was a GREAT day in our house to think we're that much closer to being done with diapers FOREVER!!!

She really didn't like us bringing the camera in while she sat on the potty enjoying her raisins by her facial expression!

Drew's Sleeping Phase

Well I hope this is a phase by Drew...the past few weeks Drew has not slept in his bed as a normal three year old would.  Drew has stayed very busy with the time leading up to bedtime to prepare for the night.  Andy and I are being good sports with this "phase" and seeing where his imagination takes him!  All of the photos below we had nothing to do with.....

Night One:.. all babies are tucked in (earlier EACH "baby" was reading a book)

Night Two:  When we came in to kiss Drew good night he had put a flannel shirt on over his pajamas and a hat on.  He told us he needed to be ready for his soccer game early in the morning.  (He really didn't have a game)!

Night Three: We went in again and found him laying on the floor.  He told us he was sleeping on the bottom bunk!

Night Four:  Yap.. you guessed it.. camp out.  Yes he's sleeping inside his tent.  Which he picked up off of his floor and moved onto his bed.

Thank you Papa and Mimi you may have inspired him for his campout as the gloves you mailed him he would not take off!

Night Five:  Sleeping at the airport on the way to his football game!

We never know how were going to find him when we go in his room.. however we do move him back into his bed after he's sleeping:)