Santa 2013

 Santa's gifts this year

 Bren's dollhouse, scooter, and plasma car

Davin's tractor, Tonka truck, and plasma car

Santa stuck with his 3 gift tradition this year (but threw in one extra mutual gift!).  Brenna received a dollhouse, a scooter (one of her big wishes!) and a plasma car.  Davin received a (used) John Deere ride-on tractor and attached wagon, a big Tonka truck, and a plasma car.  After all gifts were opened - we surprised them with Santa's last gift - a Little Tikes 7 foot trampoline (jump-a-bean according to Bren).  It was a huge hit.  I am hoping for lots of warm weather to enjoy all these new wheels!  

Easter 2013

We had a great Easter (other than the 1.5 hours in the utility closet!)  We spent Friday-Sunday with Jonathan's family in VA, which is always fun.  Here's a rundown of what we did and some pictures of our weekend!

Friday
*Brenna, Jonathan, and I had a snowball fight with snow from a verrrrry small pile of snow that hadn't melted yet.
*Davin fought sleep at naps (per usual)
*We had a big family meal when Brandan and Rachel arrived on Friday night.  Then we just sat around and talked a bunch.
*Brenna and I colored Easter eggs.

Saturday
*Gave the kiddos Easter buckets.  (Brenna - badminton set, puzzles, pjs, some candy, paddleball, flower headband, and panties ~ Davin - xylophone, pjs, puffs, baby spoons, wooden toy cars, and a baseball onesie)
*Big breakfast.
*Kite flying, Easter egg hunting, badminton (kinda), bubbles, and basketball in the yard all morning.
*Jonathan and Brandan played some golf.
*Rachel and I went to the gym.
*We made resurrection rolls with Brenna.  She kept looking for the marshmallows and couldn't be fooled.
*Big dinner.

Sunday
*We made it to the Easter breakfast at church late (thanks to  a sudden bathroom emergency on the way)
*Church, complete with family matching Easter outfits.
*Sleeping D in the utility closet thing - ha!  I held him for about an hour and then J did about 45 minutes.
*Huge Easter dinner at Jonathan's maw-maw and paw-paws house.  All the aunts/uncles/cousins were there.  It was fun and we laughed a lot.
*Both kiddos crashed on the way back.
*B slept until about 6:30.  We had to wake her up - she was exhausted!
*Huge wreck on I77 convinced me to wait until tomorrow for my mom to come get us, and J also decided to go back home early Monday before work.

I have a feeling next Easter will be even more chaotic with a toddler and a preschooler!  EEK!

Luck of the Irish

I put my Silhouette to use to make these heat transfer shirts that I stole from Pinterest.  We had fun showing them off at church on St. Patrick's Day!

cutie pies

sweet girl

not thrilled

Big Sis was a little more excited than Little Bro

Christmas Randoms

We're on the last leg of our annual Christmas tour.  We were at Jonathan's parents' from Saturday afternoon until very early Tuesday morning.  I spent Saturday afternoon with my King College friends at a restaurant in Wytheville.  We came straight to my mom's for Christmas morning celebration.  We're leaving here in the morning to head to Jonathan's dad's house for the day and then home to NC!  It's been great to be with so much family, but it'll also be great to be home again.  The kiddos have gotten lots and lots and lots of love (and gifts!) with family this week.

 B slept in a big girl bed for the first time at Jonathan's parents' house.  First night was rough.  Second night was good.  Third night was perfect.  She also napped in a full size bed at my mom's and got into bed with Jonathan at night after sleeping in the pack n play for awhile.  My girl is growing up!

Christmas church dress

 pretty girl

 Baby's First Christmas

 opening gifts at Neena and Pa Bill's house

 Davin fell asleep on MawMaw on Christmas Eve

 opening his stocking from Nanie

 Nanie got Brenna a Sit n Spin.  Big hit!

 Brady got a riding turtle - and a Noles hat!

 silly cousins

 my precious nephew

 pretty girl on Christmas morning

 all dressed up for Christmas dinner

 my sweet boy

 having fun washing dishes with Sissy

sweet cousin Jayla opening a gift 

Soon I want to chronicle some of the homemade (mostly Pinterest inspired) gifts that we gave this year.  They include two Lego tables, a recipe frame, a dress up clothes dresser, a canvas, a hairbow holder, ice cream bowls, an old photo canvas, hand scrub, photo tiles, and a cool thing for Sheri that she hasn't opened yet and someone on Etsy made - but I wish I'd made it.  Does that count?  I'll be computer-less again starting tomorow, so you may just have to wait in suspense for a little while!!