New Years Eve

My Three Little Munchkins!

Thank goodness for our friend Tiffiney. She is always willing to paint Aubrey's nails every time she is over. Eden is still her number one person to ask to paint her nails, but Tiffiney has become her number two!

As is Tradition; we brought in the New Year with The Saunders!! 

So many things have happened this year! It is crazy that we are on to 2012!

Time flies...

It seems like yesterday that my sister had her son Nicholas and now here he is with Elliot while he is doing his Tummy Time!

I seriously love this kid so much! He is such a good baby! I couldn't ask for a better little behaved little boy. He loves Carter and will follow him around the room with his eyes; just to make sure where he is!

Christmas Vacation morning activity!

This really was an afternoon, But it looks like it is morning seeing that Carter is still in his Pajamas! The kids wanted to play with some of the presents that they got for Christmas. Carter got a truck that he had to build and it didn't take him and Jeff very long to build it. The next step was to paint it. So we gathered as many colors as we had (no girl colors though). He went to work. He did a good job.

Aubrey wanted to play with her Hello Kitty Stamping Kit she got from Grandma Benson! She was in sticker heaven!!

Just for the fact that every Christmas comes around and we buy new ornaments; I like to have them in our blog book; so one day the kids will know which ones they got that year! Even though the years are on the backs.

Elliot's First Ornament

Jeff's Ornament

Carter's Ornament

Aubrey's Ornament

Tammie's Ornament

Christmas Morning Fun

So excited for the Legos that he has been wanting forever!

Instead of a remote control spider like he asked for; he got a remote control car that will do flips!

It was so fun with Grandma and Grandpa here to open gifts again!

Aubrey was so excited for the pink soccer ball she asked for!

Santa brought Carter Skylanders

Aubrey got her Princess Castle...

...she was extatic!

She had to show Grandpa!

Santa gave Carter a book about Predators; he didn't just toss the book aside. He actually opened it up and read/looked at a few of the pages!

Aubrey got a new baby doll that looks like a newborn! She even came with hospital tags!

I love this picture! Jeff is so good to play along with her and hold the new baby!

Mario Bed Sheets!

Go Fish game for the family!

Elliot needs to open his presents! Jeff and the kids opened them up for him!

He didn't get very much!

Carter and Jeff got matching shirts this year. We found them on Woot Shirt.com and it was the best gift ever!!! He loves this shirt and they usually wear them every saturday together!

It was a crazy morning but so much fun!

Christmas Eve

This year we decided to stay home for Christmas Eve and just have a nice relaxing evening. We invited my parents up and ordered Chinese food. It was really nice not having to make a big dinner and clean it all up. We also decided to take the kids to Boondocks and go bowling!!!

We had so much fun with the kids and I don't know if I had ever seen my Mother bowl! It was fun to watch her help Aubrey and bowl a game of her own!

I love when My parents get a chance to be with my kids. I love that my kids have them in thier lives. THey are truely blessed to have two sets of wonderful grandparents!

Besides rolling the ball down the little ramp in the game; Aubrey has found a new thing to do! The air blower for our hands became her new fun thing to do!

I even joined in the fun! I  love my little girl!

Elliot was such a trooper and was so ready for bed that night.

It was fun to have him here for his first Chirstmas.
We are so glad he is part of our family!

When we got home, we opened our new pajamas to wear to bed. We knew that my parents didn't want another set of pajamas and so we had the kids make them something to sleep with...

We made them pillow cases for that night. Silly, Me though, bought king size pillow cases. I have never bought pillow cases and didnt know there were different types of cases! I made the mistake and left the paints our while the pillow cases were drying. Aubrey thought that she needed to do a few more hand prints! So My Moms' case was a little messier than my dad's but still made with love!!!

Carter has been asking for footie jammies for almost a year now. I decided that he should experience them at least once. So we bougth footie jammies for all. I sure wish I could have bought some for Jeff, but I don't know if they make them that big.

Our first Christmas together as FIVE!!!!