Christmas Eve 2012.

This will be my last Christmas 2012 post.

Promise.

I mean it is almost Valentine's Day after all...

We had family and friends over for Christmas Eve again this year.

It was awesome.

My dad came in from Virginia and spent the night with us.

This was a first.

And I think it was one of the best Christmas' I've ever had.

We ate dinner.

Drank some drinks.

And wrote our letters to Santa.

I was lame and didn't use my good camera. Sorry.

 These boys are like brothers.

I hope they stay that way forever.

 They fight and cry when they don't get their way.

Like when there are 500 crayons but they want the one that Chase has.

 We really enjoy the true meaning of the holidays and all feel so thankful that we had this time together when it's over.

 My mom and sister love being with the boys. They helped decorate cookies.

And our stomach's hurt from laughing so hard.

Deuce would decorate his cookie and then eat it.

It took us about 3 cookies in to make him realize the cookies were for Santa.

 Chase used an entire bottle of sprinkles and probably got about 5 on his cookie.

Hil.A.Rious.

  Alfie, our Elf, supervised their behavior to report back to Santa.

 They each got to open one gift.

 And were beyond excited to have matching PJ's.

I'm sure Austin and TJ will love having this picture of them matching their little brothers in about 10 years.

 Chase thought I should get a shot of his butt.

 We said our goodbye's until the next morning when we would head on down to our parents houses.

 D-Weezy at his finest.

 Last up was our reindeer food that we sprinkled over the yard to guide Santa's sleigh to our house.

Our Christmas this year was wonderful.

I had so much time off from work.

Got to see my dad twice in 2 weeks.

Watched my baby boy enjoy seeing Santa and really experience the magic of Christmas.
And spent Christmas day with all of my boys, my parents, my sister, my brother, my in-laws, my brother in-law, my niece and my nephew.

Can't ask for much more.

Santa Visit.

I know, I'm super late on this but these pictures came out so great that I still had to share them. We took Deuce to see Santa in Chesapeake again, when we went up for a visit with my dad. Last year Deuce was afraid of him so we got these awesome pictures of Deuce sitting in Santa's big chair reading while Santa was hiding behind him. This year he kept saying, "I not cry today." I didn't really believe him but he wasn't lying. When it was his turn he walked right up to him, said hi and climbed right up in his lap. When Santa asked him what he wanted for Christmas Deuce responded, "a bear black." And wouldn't you know it... Santa brought him a soft black bear Christmas morning!

Random.

I have been trying really hard to make to-do lists for every single aspect of my life. Work. Housework. Personal Goals. etc.... I even have a list of blog posts that I must put out there so I don't forget what happened during this time in my life. But I don't think it will be today. Today I just feel like putting random pictures on here.

 I love this.

 The day before Thanksgiving we went to Mom's house to help do some stuff for Thanksgiving. We took Deuce for a stroll in the wagon. He loves riding in that thing.

 Most of you know that there are horses in the pasture to the right of my parents house. Well Maggie Mae, the miniature horse, has figured out how to get out of the electric fence (when it is not turned on). She kept coming over to moms yard to eat their grass. Deuce was obsessed.

 He was really good with her and really gentle and stayed up close to her head like we told him too.

He fed her a lot too.

 Nana knows that Deuce will be playing basketball come summertime so she got him a goal for her house too. It's his favorite thing to do over there.

 And he finally figured out how to push the pedals on the tricycle.

 He helped Nana bake cookies too.

 This is the Thanksgiving spread that Grandma Geer put together. Wow.

 Over on the cow/ram at the last football game of the season.

He went to every single football game this year and was awesome.

He loved every second of the games.

 We were sad that the season was over.

 This happens a lot in our house.

Deuce giggles. Daddy gets a bicep work out.

 I let Deuce play games on my phone and he has figured out the camera too. I found about 50 different variations of this shot in my phone. Most of them didn't even show any of his face.

 I sent this picture to Carrie before Christmas because she has pictures of her boys doing the same thing. We don't have steps at our house so we've never had this issue.

This was at my dad's house. He got real quiet and then started making some stressful "mommy" calls.

He laughed though when he saw me laughing. 

 The "HOT" sign was on so you know I had to stop...

 Weston's 3rd birthday party.

 Wawa and Toodles.

More from our holidays coming soon!