Take two...

Take two... I'm not sure why they didn't work the first time. Now I can only get this one to work so here it is:

They grow up so fast

Here are some fun old videos of the boys!

Playing at the Park

Oh, brotherly love...
On an outing to the park with Sampson in tow I thought we could get one picture of the boys together. This is sadly the best one I got. They were being silly and Luke really didn't want to be kissed as you can tell!

LIttle Monkey

Our "monkey" hiding in the box!

My friend Misty gave Luke this box because he
was always getting into it at her house and hiding
from everybody. He fits perfectly and still loves
to do it at home now. Cole had to join in but couldn't
quite fit!

We're home

We are back from a fun Christmas trip! We went to Dallas, Colorado Springs and Fort Collins, CO. We all had a great time but are thankful we had a safe trip and are home now.

There are so many pictures of our trip it is hard to pick just a few photos to post, but here goes...

The first one Luke actually fell asleep like that and Cole stuck his head in the picture :)

Swinging at cousin Bella's house in the snow!

The 5 "big" cousins opening presents on Christmas morning.

Nanna & Poppa with 6 grandkids (missing Jonathan, the youngest, who was napping).

Our family shot on a train ride through the Royal Gorge...beautiful!

We are off to Colorado!

We are so happy to go to Colorado and spend Christmas with my sisters and their families! My parents will be there also! We are headed to Dallas for 2 days to see Jad's family then off to Colorado Springs. I will have lots of fun photos when we get back so stay tuned and check my blog again around the first of January!

Here are some photos of our night out at Wimberly's trail of lights.

Our Christmas Tree 2007

The annual picking of the Christmas tree was crazy as usual for us. We decided to go to Home Depot for our tree instead of venturing to the Christmas tree farm this year. The tree farm is over an hour away and takes at least a half a day to go. It has been so fun in the past, but this year we just don't have the time. Well, picking it at Home Depot ends up being just as long though... we unwrap just about every tree in the lot to find "the tree", the boys are running around getting in other people's way, splashing in the water on the ground, driving Jad and I crazy as we shop. Finally Jad says, "this is it I know it is". We haven't even opened it yet and he decides no matter what this one looks like we are getting it because we have had enough. Well, it actually was "the one"! He picked a great tree and we were so happy to be leaving!

We get home and Jad forgets the tree is on top of the van and drives like normal into the garage! We have not idea how we made it in without completely ruining the tree or the garage door- the garage door was hanging down at least a foot lower than the tree was on our van. All we could do was laugh. Anyway, Jad then can't find a good saw to chop off the end of the trunk so he whips out the chain saw. It is so loud and smoky I'm sure our neighbors behind were wondering what wacko is using a chain saw at this time of night. Okay, we finally get it in the house and we let the boys put on the star before they go to bed. It was too late to decorate that night. The next night we decorated and the boys did a great job. They had so much fun, and it is great now that they can do it almost by themselves! I tried to get a close up picture of the tree where the boys put like 5 ornaments on the same branch. It is so cute. Now our house looks and smells like Christmas!