Family Photos

For those who are interested, Amy was generous enough to take some photos for us yesterday. See her favorites from the shoot here.

My two boys

What are those green marks on Jason's face?
I looked away for a few seconds and Tyler wrote on Jason's face. At least it wasn't too bad. Just a few marks and a smiling baby. Cute.

I asked Tyler what happened to Jason's face? He said he wanted to color him.
"I color Jace."

There is a little mischief in that smile of Tyler's.

I like this picture of the boys because I was taking the picture of Tyler, but you can see Jason just a smiling and a smiling.

Tyler loves Jason.

Another one of my favorites. It's like they know what the other one is thinking.

Molinellis Jewelry Store

Funny Story. I got a post card in the mail from Molinelli's Jewelry Store saying that they were having a ladies night with a lot of free stuff and you can look at all their jewelry collections. Well, I invited Amy to go since she was in the market for rings.....but just to make it clear, she is not engaged...yet. So, we waited in lline in the cold winter air and got our free gift bags full of chocolates, a christmas tree ornament, and a calander and then we looked around and put our names in drawing to win stuff. Both Amy and I fell in love with some brown pearls. I know brown. They were beautiful and expensive. Well, it was a fun evening...and what's that you ask? Did I win anything???? Why yes, yes I did. I won some glass knitting needles and I don't even know how to knit. They are pretty cool looking though.

I'm excited to look at Jewelry.

Amy and Laurie are excited too.

I just heard my name. Yeah. What did I win...?

Fancy smancey knitting needles. I really like the case. Do you think it's too big to hold my glasses in?

Letters to Santa

A few days ago my mother-in-law Laurie gave me these adorable letters with matching envelopes so that the boys could send a letter to Santa Clause. I sat down with Tyler and asked what he would like to ask Santa for. This is what he said.

Those items are in order as Tyler said them. I was laughing pretty hard while I was writing it.

Tyler is so proud of his list.

Since Jason can't talk yet, I asked Tyler what he thought Jason would like for Christmas. This was pretty funny too.

All Jason wanted to do was eat his list.

It is very tasty.

Nest stop, the post office.

Tyler was excited to mail his letter, but not as excited to see these electronic wire reindeers at the post office. I had to keep urging him to mail the letter.

There it goes.

Ho Ho Ho!!! Merry Christmas.

Thanksgiving

I know, this post is a few weeks late. For Thanksgiving this year, we went to Cory's aunt and uncles house. Byron and Kathy made a wonderful feast. We had turkey, potatoes, awesome individual jell0o molds made by ours truly, and a ton of pie. It was fun to have the family all there to celebrate. We are blessed and thankful to live so close to many family member's and that we can see them frequently. On Friday I woke up at 4:00 and went out with Jenni and Ted to Wal-Mart. We sent my good mother to Shopko to pick some things up for us. She ended up going to like 3 or 4 different stores all while we were still at Wal-Mart. We really are crazy. I had to work a for a few hours after this and I was so tired that night. Then, on Saturday we had another party to attend. What a busy week.

What happened to my crust?

Sick.

I was so mad. I made this crust and as you can tell, it didn't turn out at all. Then, Cory decides to try and make it. He made the most beautiful and perfect pie crust I had ever seen. It tasted and looked like heaven. That Cory.

Pictures of Thanksgiving Day at Byron and Kathy's.

Cute Kayla and Allie.

Me.

Baby Jason. He's been grabbing his ear a lot lately. I don't know if he has an ear infection or just likes to grab his ear.

What a cute smile.

On Saturday we went to a Miles Thanksgiving/early Christmas dinner. A lot of Cory's aunts and uncles were there as well as a ton of cousins. Tyler really had fun playing with Deacon. He is only a few months older than Tyler. They really got into some trouble together that night.

Everyone loves a sharp dressed man.

Look what awesome picture I took. HA HA HA!!

Cute Couple. Nathan and Melissa.

The two love birds Amy and her boyfriend-soon to be-almost fiance, Tyler.

Christmas Quilts.

Cory's aunt passed away last year and she was an avid quilter. Well, I was able to get some super cute Christmas material from her. The Gingerbread quilt actually came from some Christmas Tree skirts that I got from Jane. I really liked the gingerbread, so I cut them out and made a cute Christmas quilt for Jason. I'm so excited too because I am using Melanie's idea this year and I made Jason a Gingerbread baby outfit. He's going to be adorable and he's going to love his quilt. Jane also had this snowman fabric that she gave me. These were just on a big long piece of fabric...kind of like a cheater quilt. I used some of the Christmas scraps I got from her as well and used them for a border around the Snowmen. I like how this one turned out as well. I don't know what I did wrong, but there are a few character flaws in the snowman quilt. The lines don't match up very well. I cut everything out and measured the fabric, but maybe I sewed them wrong. It's still super cute though.

The top of the quilt.

Jason loves it already.

Cute gingerbread men.

I love them.

Tyler's quilt is really big.

I really love snowmen, so this quilt is awesome to me.

Can you tell, my lines don't match up very well. Oops.

Cookies of Catan!!!

Anyone who knows us, knows that Cory and I like playing games. Well, our good friends were having a party at there home and there were going to be 4-5 couples there and about 18 kids. Crazy. We decided late Friday to make "Cookies of Catan." We made the cookies out of pentagons, but we really needed hexagons. Cory and I both really got into making these cookies and perfecting them. We want to make them again. I think it turned out awesome.

The map. We tried to follow it exactly.

Funny story. We didn't have anything big enough to put the cookies on, so we washed our end table really good and put the cookies on that and brought it to our friends house. They laughed pretty hard about it.

Cookies of Catan.

A city and a road.

We used Sweet Tarts for the number chips.

We are off. When we arrived, I announced that we had a new game to play. All of our friends were curious and Cory brought in the Cookies of Catan. HA! HA!!

Tyler really liked "painting" the cookies. That's what he kept calling it. We even went to Mom and Dad's the next day and I think he mentioned something to Mom about painting cookies. Funny.