The other half of Christmas

And here we are with more family at Christmas:

The boys playing iPhones on loan from the grandparents... they would sit here all day if we let them.

 Playing criss/cross/crash with Uncle E and Aunt N

 Grandma with her youngest grandson :)

 My man, setting up S's rockin' new Christmas present from Grandma and Grandpa.  Our house really gets loud now!

 Brotherly love while waiting on their cousins to take a group picture

 The boys, one persuaded by a marshmallow to participate

 :) love marshmallows

 The grandparents with all their boys! and Lucy!

Half of Christmas

Here's half of our Christmas pictures:

With Mema

With Gana and Papaw.  I clearly need to work more with my camera and figure how to take better pictures and position subjects better with the light...

 us with the boys

 Our leader driving our new to us mini-van.  Never thought I'd be so excited/glad to have a minivan!  We love it!

 P passing the time away :)

 S, he thinks it's fun to pose for pictures with things in front of his face now.  Hope this phase doesn't last too long.

craft projects

Here's a project we did with S at church the night the regular teacher couldn't make it and I had to lead... The story was Moses leading the Israelites across the Red Sea.  I thought this was pretty cute :)

 And on to one of my Pinterest projects that I've done.  I wanted to find a use for my leftover thread spools instead of just throwing them away.  I thought this was a cute idea for a Christmas Tree ornament.

Let it Snow!

We were so excited when it started snowing Saturday morning.

We eventually had enough to build a little mound and dig a tunnel through it.  Our neighbor friends came over and helped us build it and play in it.  They also helped us by throwing snowballs at us and all over our freshly shoveled driveway :)  My camera battery was pretty much drained when I decided to document their tunnel and them crawling through it.  It wouldn't focus or hardly take any pictures... so these are the "best" I got... boo!

The smaller kiddos fit through easier than our older neighbors, but after the smaller ones had gone through a few times the tunnel had been hollowed out enough for the bigger ones to fit through.  The tunnel is now decorated with our orange sprinkler marking flags... I guess they thought that was a good idea.

I couldn't resist taking a Christmas picture of the boys.  I promised them candy when we were done, so they actually participated really nicely.  The one below P is obviously done with my camera happiness. So we stopped and I delivered on the candy promise.

 Our stockings :)  I stole all of these ideas from Hable Construction stockings.  I'm not sure if they still sell them, but I loved them... they were about $100 each, so I made my own.

I am new to Pinterest.  This was my first idea I have made from it.  I decorated the fridge while the boys were at "school".  It was fun seeing S discover what I had done.  It was really hard not to lead him over to the fridge and show it to him, but I knew I wanted him to walk past it and stop and do a double take.  That's exactly what he did... so fun!