A Wonderful Christmas Weekend!

Greetings! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas - I know we did!  I have LOTS of pictures to share so here we go!!

My parents arrived in town on Thursday, 12/22, and that evening we met the Slaughter family at the mall so that the boys could see Santa with Harper.  We had a lovely dinner, after seeing Santa, and enjoyed some great food and gift exchanging with one of our favorite families!  All of the kids enjoyed sitting with Santa this year!  Unfortunately the pictures are not great and I don't have a scanner so you'll have to take my word for it :)  Here is Chris and Jason with Harper and Connor...while we waited...

Mom and Adriel waiting on Santa

The next morning, 12/23, we enjoyed a leisurely morning before heading over to Papaw and Momaw's house for some holiday fun!  Here are Grandma and Cole!

Connor and Cole gave Grandma and Grandpa their gift!

I caught Santa Claus!

Check out the pile of gifts at Papaw's house...this is only 1 of 3 piles ;)

Connor, of course, had to feed his chickens before we ate dinner :)

Our sweet little Cole!

Connor absolutely LOVES his Uncle Nick!

Santa got a little hot in his costume, so we cooled off a bit with Mamaw!

After dinner...Santa arrived!

I thought Connor would die!

He was excited to sit with Santa and open presents!

What a great Santa, Papaw made :)

The star of the night...a HUGE T-Rex!

Cole, as you can see, was not excited :)

He woke up later and played with his new Tiger and Eeyore!

Connor cried and did not want to leave...giving Mamaw good bye kisses :(

Because Jason had to be in several church services on Christmas Eve and had to be up early to preach on Christmas morning, we decided to celebrate Christmas at our house Christmas Eve morning!  This is Connor when he first walked upstairs and saw the giant dinosaur that Grandma and Grandpa got him!

Baby Cole, ready for some presents!

Grandma, opening her presents!

Lots of dinosaur books!

And some Revelation for Mommy!

Did I mention that he got a few dinosaurs for Christmas this year?

And...the Abominable Snow Monster!  He is OBSESSED with this guy from the old Rudolph movie!!

Baby Cole got some...MOOSES!

Our little family!

On Christmas Eve, we headed over to Jo-Jo and Granddaddy's house, after church!

This is Cole, in amongst the gifts!

Jo-Jo and Granny!

...and Granddaddy!

Granny and Grandpa Jim!

I got new running shoes!!  YIPPEE!

Connor had a blast "helping" Grandpa Jim walk all over the house with a cane!

...and he's out! 

Later that night, after all the festivities of the weekend...Little Connor couldn't help but just lay his head down on the table, in amongst his dinosaurs...

Grandma and her boys...

....and Cole is officially DONE with Christmas!

I hope you've enjoyed and that you had a wonderful holiday season!

The Countdown to Christmas...

We hope you are all doing great and getting excited about Christmas!  We have been doing our best to make sure that this is a memorable Christmas for Connor!  It's the first year that he finally seems to "get it," and man are we ever doing our part to instill some good ole' traditions in this household!  We have had lots of fun at church events, Christmas parades, the Speedway in Lights, putting up decorations, making Christmas cookies, watching Christmas movies, and singing Christmas songs!  This weekend we are even taking Connor and Cole caroling with the church!  So exciting!  Here are some pictures from the last 2 weeks...we even had a special visit from Suzie last week!  What a wonderful and blessed season this is in our lives!

This is Connor on 11/28, playing with his dinosaurs in the loft!

On 12/2, we took the boys to their very first Christmas parade in Johnson City.  We missed the Bristol parade because we were all sick that night :(  Check out their new wheels!!

Cole, enjoying the parade!

Connor decided that he would have the best view atop his Daddy's shoulders!

On Saturday, 12/3, we decided to decorate the house!  I didn't have enough hands to take pictures while we did it, but here are some from that morning, as we watched Rudolph (Connor's favorite Christmas movie) and sang carols!  This is Cole at nearly 11 weeks old!

Connor sure does love his baby brother!

Our sweet boy and his frosty!

Precious moments!

Did I mention how much Connor loves his cat, Seany?!  He is absolutely obsessed with Seany right now!  Here he is hugging Seany!

Cole, trying out his Bumbo seat!

Such a handsome boy!

This is Connor, hugging Seany, on 12/4!

Kissing the little one on 12/6!

Connor and Cole and I headed to the store to get ready for Suzie's visit on 12/8!

Suzie finally got here on 12/9!  This is Connor, giving her the Christmas present we made for her!

Daddy and Cole!

A jolly Cole on 12/10!

Suzie and Connor, petting Seany, on 12/11!

Cole, watching his brother on 12/11!

Best friends!

On 12/12, I left Cole for a few minutes, to clean up, and this is what I found when I got back...Connor didn't want him to feel alone!

Later that night, we had dinner at Jo-Jo and Granddaddy's house!  Not sure if I've mentioned it before, but Cole LOVES his Granddaddy! 

My precious boy, at 12 weeks old, on 12/15!

Such a happy baby!  We are so blessed!

Cole, saying goodbye to Suzie on 12/16 :(  We had such a great week with her and hate to see her go :( 

Christmas has a whole new meaning now that we can teach Connor all about it.  Can't wait until Cole is also old enough to understand!  What a wonderful time of year!