Christmas

What a great time of year, love, love, and more love.
My parents came up to stay with us, so on Xmas Eve we did our traditional Mexican food and opened some presents. Camden of course just loved to open presents, Beckett...not so interested. Luckily Cam was willing to help B open his too. Then Cam wanted to help everyone open presents- haha!

ready, set, go!

My little family...love!

Nene and Papa with the kiddos

Cam is so excited to open his presents

...ok all/everyones presents

 

Christmas Day we hosted at our house- My parents, The Weigels, John, Cyndi,  Grandma Margaret, and the Bethmans all came over to eat the wonderful food that Justin prepared. He fried a turkey (which was delicious) as he always does.
After quality Family time and eating, then we were off to opening presents again ;)
Camden helped to pass them out, but he thought any gift that had his name on the package (even if it was in the from spot) that it was for him. Then again he wanted to help everyone open their presents. Very sweet and caring that other people got gifts too and he wanted to make sure that they liked their gifts as well.

Santa brought Camden the bike he asked for

And B this little car to drive

He's got a lot of learning to do :)

Me and my adorable little chubs

My favorite people in the world!

Nene and Papa

The moms

Cali just being Cali

Tutu and Pepa

Justin frying his turkey

(it was delicious)

Celebrating Jesus's Birthday

(baby jesus according to Cam)

Great Grandma Margaret

Aunt Linda and Uncle Donnie

So glad that they all could join us this year!

 

Elfie....we will miss you

The woman who created Elf on the Shelf
is brilliant!
Elfie is our Elf and Camden just loves him soo much!
We had a great month of December (i'm thinking it was due to Elfie watching over him) On Elfie's last day he wrote the boys a note that said Santa would take away his magic for a few minutes so that he could hug, kiss, and play with him. It was absolutely adorable!

He was a little shy to touch him at first

But then soo happy

Hugs for Elfie

Sweet kisses

And a few times of flying in the sky

He was sad for a few days following,

but now it's all good and he'll look forward

to him next year!

Calendar

I am such a softie for my childrens artwork. I absolutely love things made with their hands and feet. So I decided to make a calendar of their handprints and footprints. I wanted one and I also made one for each Grandma and for Sarah (our Nanny). It was a lot of hard work- took me a few months (but I didn't work on it all the time, but again very time consuming).

I think the calendar speaks for itself

Sorry some of the pics turned sideways...

I'll try to figure it out

Snowball Fight

Wowzer it actually snowed!
Camden has been so excited to play in the snow (last year he didn't get to, bc it didn't snow).
He didn't care that it was freezing outside. I bundled him ALL up and me just a little (which I regretted quickly)
and we went out to play. He dove right in and was making snow angels and then throwing snowballs at me. 5 minutes in- I was freezing, but he just wanted to throw more snowballs. Man this kid is serious! So we played a bit longer (small compromise) and inside to defrost we went.
What a great time to see how happy a little snow made this little boy!

So excited!

Getting bundled up to go play

First thing..

dove into making snow angels

Snowball fight

And our very sad snowman-

in our defense the snow was so fluffy that it

didn't stick together well-

so he was more like a snow hill man :)

Twins

No you're really not seeing twins ;) This is Beckett on the left at 13 months and Mommy on the right at 12 months- yep he's mine!

Santa visit

We went to see Santa at Bass Pro and of course Cam was super excited to see him and tell him everything he wanted. Beckett on the other hand wasn't so excited. He was doing good looking at him from a distance, but the second he sat on Santa's lap and turned to look at him- it was instant crying. Poor buddy, but super cute! Cam did the same thing at that age and I just love it!

Family Pics

I love having pictures taken, I love making memories, So here's a few

Birthday Boys

This year we decided to celebrate the boys birthdays together (since they are a day apart)
We celebrated Camden turning 4 and Beckett turning 1 at Debbie Howards Gym with a lot of friends and family.

I decorated his door with streamers and

balloons- he woke uop and said

"who put this trash on my door?"

too funny!

 

Justin and my Dad had worked hard the night before

to get his train table ready for him.

He woke up to this big surprise and was

super excited! He loved it!

At the gym- Cam and Nathan racing across the trampoline.

Best Buds

Just playing

Cam and Nathan being silly

The Birthday Boys

Birthday boys ready to eat some cake

Licked the frosting....he wasn't sure what he thought of it

little more eating,

but more just destroying the cake

Now he's just beating the cake and it's flying everywhere

Did I mention it was a Thomas the Train party.

Tutu made both Camden and Becketts cakes

adorable!

After Cake and ice cream- Cam opened his presents there

and we saved Becketts for him to open the next day

(his actual Bday)

And of course Camden helped him to open them all :)

 

Thanks to everyone that came to celebrate with our kiddos-

Sloane, Calvin, Hayes, Hayden, Avery, Marly,

Lilly, Ethan, Alexander, Sierra, Hayley, Riley,

Nathan, Cole, Kacie, all their parents,

Sarah, Tyler, Aunt Cyndi, Nene, Papa,

Tutu and Pepa.

It was so great to celebrate with so many people.

Happy Birthday to my boys -I love you both more than

you'll ever know!