~Christmas Morning~

Our Christmas Morning was a great one!! Bry woke up at 3:00 am to see if Santa came to our house. Then after snooping a little he went back to bed. Shawn and I got up at 5:30 and waited around until 6:00 then we decided we should get the boys up. They were so excited they could hardly stand it.This is what Santa left us. Lots of fun stuff!!

Kode opening up his gifts

Santa even left our dogs even got some bones.

Kode digging under the tree

Shawn and Kode looking at the Wii games Santa left

I got a new helmet from the boys and Shawn. Its awesome it is purple color and when you are looking at it under the light and when you look at it in the sun the color turns green!!

Shawn got a new Starbucks coffee cup and some of his favorite coffee

Our new Mickey Mouse Shirts that Grumpy and Mimaw sent us.

(they are for our Disneyland trip)
Bry just opening up his gifts

We had a great Christmas this year!! I just can not believe that Christmas is over already!!

Christmas Eve!!

For Christmas Eve this year we just laid low. We cooked steaks, baked potatoes, green beans for dinner and then we jumped into the car and looked at Christmas lights

(well Kode didn't want to look at lights so he stayed home)

Then after looking at lights Bry just wanted to sit at the computer and track Santa.

So at about 7:30 Bry said we better go to bed cause he felt that Santa was getting close

(needless to say they sure didn't go to bed at 7:30)

So while we were gone Kode tracked Santa and put out cookies and milk for Santa. He wanted to make sure Santa had a treat when he came to our house.

We had a great Christmas Eve just chillin' around the house! They boys are so excited for the morning. They can hardly stand themselves.

Acts of Kindness!!

So for My dad and Step-mom's Christmas Present to them this year they sent us some money and asked that we would take the money and use it towards acts of kindness! (they said that they didn't want anything they just wanted us to do nice things for other people) So Mimaw e-mailed me some ideas of different acts of kindness and I read them to my family and asked them to think of something that they wanted to do to use the money to do nice things for others. Shawn came up with his own idea (I will share that in a later post) and the boys wanted to go and purchase gift cards at the store and then attach them onto various items around the store. So here is what we did throughout the store!

Well first before we went into the store the three of us brought in 2 shopping carts each back into the store. (now I realize that 2 shopping carts is not much but those things are hard to maneuver) That was a fun thing to do!

OK back to my story!!

So the first thing we did when we got into the store was purchase the gift cards. (Kode was being a little grumpy and did not want his picture taken well at least not right then. I got lots of pictures of him throughout the store)

Then we were off to find the perfect places to attach the gift cards to. On each gift card I wrote (from) Acts of Kindness! Enjoy! and then $ amount

(just so no one thought that the card was a blank one)

Bry choose to attach one to the back of a pack of Hot Wheels cars

Then Kode wanted to attach one to a Nintendo DS Lite.

(He thought that someone is going to be surprised when they go to purchase this electronic and see the gift card there)

Then Kode saw a flat screen TV and wanted to attach one to it.

Then Bry decided he wanted to attach a gift card to a movie

and they attached one to some ink for a printer!

We all got a laugh out of this one! Bry wanted to attach one on some toilet paper.

(who doesn't use that)

and then Kode wanted to attach one to the back of a fish tank!

We all had fun going through the store attaching the gift cards to whatever we wanted to. We hope that those gift cards will put a smile on someones face when they realize what it is.

Thanks Mimaw for sharing such a wonderful activity with us. I have always told my boys that Christmas is not what you get its what you give and this activity was a very prime example. I hope that they are excited enough to do more acts of kindness throughout the coming year!!

The Orthodontist

I had to take the boys into the orthodontist last week for a check up on Kode and a consolation for Bry. I really like the orthodontist that the boys go to. His staff is so friendly and the Dr. is very nice and fun to joke with. (in my next life I would like to work for this Dr. It just seems like him and his staff have such a great time there)

Anyway . . . . When it was Kode's time to see the Dr. he saw that Kode had a really loose tooth so he gave it a really good push and it fell right out. (since the Dr. made his tooth fall out he gave him a coupon to go and get a free shake at Arctic Circle and they gave Bry one just so he didn't feel left out) Then he told Kode things look good and he wants to see him in 6 months to start the next faze (so whats the next faze I asked. He said it would be braces. Ooh I was hoping we would not have to do that) Kode said he really doesn't look forward to braces.

Then it was Byr's turn.

He said we could start on him now but he feels that Bry is a little to young to start anything yet. He feels that we should wait one more year. Then he will also get braces. (we have got to fix those bucky-beaver teeth) All in all their appointments went well.

I thought that this was funny. At the Dr. office they have TVs on the ceiling and they let the kids watch a movie while they are waiting to see the Dr. Bry told the lady that he was having a hard time seeing the TV cause the light was making his eyes water. So she went and got him some sun glasses. Which made things much better! Silly kid!