Jingle Bells....Collin's version

I got a new Flip video camera as an early birthday gift from my mom & dad. It is soooo much fun and I am still trying to get the editing and stuff figured out, but here was my first attempt at a video of Collin. I told him to sing "Jingle Bells" for me and he started out ok, but then improvised with his own rendition.....you'll see what I mean.....

Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!!

A Visit with Santa

We took the boys to see Santa Claus tonight and had a blast! Collin was so excited all day and was all ready with what he was going to ask for from the big man. As soon as he saw him, you could see the excitement building in his eyes. It was so precious. When it was his turn, he went up to Santa, shook his hand and said, "Nice to meet you." So sweet! Santa then asked if he wanted to sit on his lap, so we sat he and Carter up there. Carter was facinated with all the fur on Santa's outfit and wasn't scared at all. He did great! Poor Santa just about lost his leg because Collin talked it off! ha! He started off talking about all the circles he saw. Then he told him that he wanted a Lightning McQueen and that Carter wanted Mater from the movie "Cars". He then said, "Where are all the reindeer?" to which Santa replied that they were at the North Pole and Rudolph was there as well. "Oh, ok..." replied Collin.

Patiently waiting his turn...

Here he is saying, "Nice to meet you."
Carter checking Santa out

Collin telling Santa his Christmas wishes.

Carter got so excited, he tried to crawl back! We could hear him getting excited and laughing the whole way back over to Santa. I think Santa got a kick out of him as well. :-)

Our final stop was to ride Collin's favorite horse on the carousel, Chilo. He loves this horse and refuses to ride any other. After our turn tonight, a little girl chose to ride Chilo and Collin didn't have any problem telling her that Chilo was his....yikes....

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas........

I absolutely love this time of year. Although the decorating has become a little more challenging with two little ones running around, I still enjoy it.

Siebert Family Christmas Tree

I'm a little obsessed with this mesh stuff on my tree, but it's great to use if you are wanting to take up a lot of space on your tree and don't have enough of the big ornaments yet to do it.

I've collected the Dept. 56 Dicken's Village for several, several years now. Here's a small portion of it. I think I'm up to like 22 houses now. I have to display it above my kitchen cabinets now so the kiddos don't break it. :-)


The stockings were hung by the chimney with care.....
So, yes, there are 5 stockings......the 5th one is the dog's, Lexi. I got these adorable monogrammed stockings from Pottery Barn. Love them!

So happy to have our newest addition to the mantle this year!

Since we have a double-sided fireplace, I have 2 mantles to decorate. I struggled with this one this year and am still not completely happy with it, but it's a little late in the game to come up with a new strategy.

Even Lexi, the dog, gets into the Christmas spirit with her own Christmas dog bowls! I got these up in Kansas City several years ago when we lived up there.

I love to hang large ornaments from my dining room light. :-)

Family Pics

My friend Katie from church took these family pics for us a few weeks ago. She has started a little side business, The Peekaboo Image Photography, so she got some good practice in with us. Thanks Katie!!

Christmas favorites.....

We l.o.v.e. to watch Christmas cartoons. I love that the boys love it as much as I do now! ha!

Collin loves to help me cook, so we decided to make some Christmas cookies.

A Hodge Podge of Pictures

Collin thought it was fun to make a tunnel for Carter to crawl under. Brotherly love.....

Carter checking out his first vision of snow....ok...so it was just some flurries, but we got excited.

Collin, the mechanic. He's always wanting a good excuse to use Josh's tools. Notice the tap measure and the roll of tape he's using as the spare tire for his trike.

And finally, Carter eating his new fav thing.....Puffs! He gets so excited when I pour these on his tray. A great new way to keep him occupied while I get some stuff done around the house!

Party Animals!

We were quite busy last weekend, but had a great time. We celebrated birthdays with some of our friends. The first party we went to was Scout's. It was her 1st Birthday! Eileen, her mom, really outdid herself. She had snowglobes for the kids to make and then all the kids got to make their own pizzas! She even made Scout this adorable little outfit. I've always said Eileen is quite the Martha Stewart.

Happy 1st Birthday Scout!

The next party we went to was Mason's. This is Collin's big buddy from church. He just LOVES Mason. He talks about him all the time and when he sees we are getting close to church he starts yelling, "I'm coming Mason!!" It's so cute.

Mason had his party at The Little Gym. We had never been there before, but it was really great! Collin had a blast even though he was "that kid" that didn't listen, wanted to run around everywhere, etc. He was so tired when we left he fell asleep in the car and took a 2 hour nap.

Mason & Collin