Christmas Time!

We had a great Christmas this year. I wanted to start off the blog and show you our Reindeer we made!! I don't know if you can tell but they are made out of logs and branches. I am so very proud of them .... no one else has them in the neighborhood! (And that is Rudolf in the middle with the red nose.)


Christmas was a little different this year since Kyle had to work Christmas Day. We started the fun Christmas Eve at Kyle's mom and dad's house, where we meet the rest of his family for the 'Secret' Santa gift exchange and dinner. Of course, Tyler and Zack (Tyler's 2 yr old cousin) got an abundance of toys.

Since Kyle had to work Christmas day, we decided that Tyler would get to play with Santa presents Christmas morning and then we would have the Family Christmas (Kyle, Tyler and myself) that evening when Kyle got off of work.

Tyler was so funny walking out Christmas morning. He just stood at the tree looking at all the toys. Can't you tell that he just woke up!

Tyler and myself then headed over to my mom and dad's house for our family Christmas. (We had a great time but we definitely missed Kyle!)

Tyler decided that he would rather climb over all the presents than open them.



We had a very Merry Christmas and we hope that you did too!

Christmas Cookies

We make Christmas Cookies every year at my momma's house. So of course she was really excited this year .... because Tyler was going to get to help. It started off really well .... he was very interested in the sprinkles and the cookie cutters.

But once the first batch of cookies came out, Tyler decided that he needed to be the official taste tester (and left the decorating up to us!)

And it wasn't the cats fault ....

It was really quiet. I hadn't heard a peep from Tyler in quite a while (never a good thing.) I called his name and nothing. I called again and he came running around the corner with a big grin on his face. I knew something was up .......

That is almost a whole roll of toilet paper on the floor.

Driving Lesson

Granddad decided to give Tyler his first driving lesson.

And the most important rule he learned ..... "The biggest truck has the right - of - way."

Budding Artist

Tyler's daycare loves to have the kids make artwork ..... here are some recent samples ..... I definitely think I have a budding artist!

He didnt get too much of the glue stick in his hair. Johnson and Johnson shampoo will get out anything.

I think this was our "Ode to Fall". This is currently hanging on the fridge.

Boppy

I thought it was time to pack up the Boppy .....

Maybe not!

Lions and Tigers and Bears ....

Kyle and I decided to take Tyler to the zoo this weekend. Kyle spent most of his time holding Tyler up to look at the animals .... good thing he was there because I couldn't have done it (Tyler is getting heavy!)

First stop was the grizzly bears. They were rolling around and wrestling with each other.


Tyler got a kick out of that!

As you can tell Tyler didn't really enjoy 'posing' on the metal elephant statue.

But, he did have a good time feeding the giraffes. You can't see him but that is Kyle's arm in the picture (notice the tattoos). Tyler is right out of the camera.

And feeding the goats!

Overall it was a great day. The weather turned out to be awesome and everyone had a good time.