Christmas in April! :o)

Merry Christmas!!  Better late than never!  :o)

Now what was our last update about?  Ah, yes...the Fall.  Well, then here comes Christmas!!!  :o)

Nicholas in the holiday spirit!!

The boys really enjoyed Christmas this year!  Zachary, 16 months old in December, was just old enough to appreciate all the holiday decorations…especially the train under the Christmas tree!!   

Choo, Choo...Twain!!!

Nicholas & Zachary also had a blast making gingerbread cookies this year!  They had even more fun eating them, of course!  And Mommy had a great time cleaning up after the activity!  :o)

Mommy's Little Helpers

Nicholas was again in a mini-Christmas pageant at his preschool where he sang Jingle Bells and Mary & Joseph Went to Bethlehem.  Nick captured the lovely performance on our video camera.  We really need to work on videotaping more!  And updating the blog more often, too...it's really hard to remember what happened in December!!

This has nothing to do with Christmas, but everyone needs a good spaghetti face picture, right?!

Nicholas & Zachary visited their Grandparents N. first this year...and oh how they loved the hotel!  We managed to get a good deal on a hotel room with its own little kitchen, and the boys really took a liking to opening and raiding the full-size fridge.  The boys had a great time visiting their Grandparents, Great Grandma, aunts, uncles, and cousin!!  Other highlights of the trip included a riding a mini-train, playing at multiple parks, eating too much, decorating sugar cookies, and opening lots of great presents!

Nicholas was so proud of his cookie-self!

As always, we celebrated Christmas Day at home so that Santa wouldn't get too confused!  And, despite our best efforts, the boys received a truckload of Christmas gifts.  We made a nice little family dinner, complete with my very first trifle!  And the boys were very excited to have a Christmas visit from their SA Grandparents who added to the Christmas truckload with a nice little outdoor cottage!

Drums.  Need I say more?  We bought some noise-canceling headphones within the week.

 Finally, visiting the SA Grandparents was the last stop on the Christmas train!  The boys had a wonderful time visiting their Grandparents, GG PaPa and LaLa, uncle, aunt, grand-relatives, and friends!!  Unfortunately, the weather wasn't the greatest, but on the bright side...the boys rarely suffer from a shortage of activities in SA!  I believe the destruction was minimal on this trip!!  ;o)

A microphone for Christmas!!  Watch out, Justin Bieber!

Nicholas & Zachary celebrated a pretty calm New Year at home.  No one was allowed to stay up until midnight, though...what mean parents!  Well, hello 2011... here come Trouble & Chaos!!

Trouble

Chaos

Hopefully, more winter blog updates will be coming soon!!