Christmas!!!

Christmas morning was so exciting!! Kolton came into our room a few minutes before 6:00 and asked if we could get up and see if Santa had come.  So we woke up Bentley and got ready to go out to the living room.  I decided to video tape the kids coming out this year and it was precious.  Bentley wasn't quite awake so I was holding him but Kolton came out and was ecstatic beyond words to see a dirt bike sitting there. 

 Santa brought Bentley a slide and it got very good use that morning.  He went up and down that thing over and over and over. 

 I love moments like this.  The look of such excitement in his eyes.  Its priceless. 

 Another perfect Christmas morning picture.  :) Last minute we decided to get Kolton a basketball goal for the trampoline.  It is the best thing ever.  It totally renewed his love for the trampoline and he goes out there almost every day to jump and play basketball.  I love seeing him so happy. 

 We regifted Kolton's old Buzz and Woody dolls and Bentley was pretty excited! :)

 We told Kolton we could go out at 9:00 for him to try the dirt bike.  He could hardly wait for it to come.  He did awesome on it and loved it! He rode up and down the street some and then we took him to the field by the school and he rode there for a little bit.  Later in the day Brady took him back over to the school and he rode around some more.  He ended up going up a hill and didn't know that on the other side there was a log so he had his first crash but he was fine and so was the bike so that was good. 

 Kolton got this bow and arrow for Christmas.  It shoots far! And it hurts if it hits you.  Haha. 

 We had the best time hanging out and playing all day on Christmas. 

 We skyped with my family around mid morning and got to see everything they got and wish them a Merry Christmas.  Then, we went to Brady's parent's house at 4:00.  It was so nice to be able to have so much time at home for the kids to play with their toys and relax.  We took a family picture and took pictures of the grandkids. 

After pictures we ate dinner.  We had Mexican food (tradition) and hung out for a little bit before coming home around 6 or 7. 

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve!! Christmas Eve is so magical.  So much anticipation and excitement for what is to come the next day.  I love it.  We started the morning off with some donuts.  Yum Yum! Kolton helped me cut out snowflakes to hang above the table for our Christmas Eve dinner.  He did awesome!

We had a ham dinner, per tradition.  Brady got off work a couple hours early and so we ate dinner at like 4:30.  We read the Christmas story in the Bible at the table before we ate dinner.  Kolton could hardly wait to open his Christmas Eve present so we did that after dinner.  Both boys LOVED their Christmas Eve jammies.  Bentley thought it was SO cool that his were Mickey Mouse and Kolton loved that his were Nike Elite shorts and shirt.  He loves elite shorts so he was pretty excited to get another pair (he only had one pair).   

 After that we made sugar cookies to leave for Santa.  The boys loved cutting them out with the cookie cutters.  I liked eating the dough.  Haha.  I didn't half the recipe this year for some reason and I totally should have.  We had way too much dough.  We didn't decorate even a quarter of them!

 Kolton was pretty good at his decorating...Bentley not so much.  Haha.  He COVERED his cookies with sprinkles.  Kolton tried to make designs and shapes with the frosting. 

 These were the two cookies that were chosen to be left out for Santa.  One was made by Kolton (the snowman) and the candy cane was decorated by Bentley. 

After cookies we drove around to a few neighborhoods to look at Christmas lights and then came home and put the kids to bed.  Kolton was super concerned that Brady and I were going to stay up and make it so Santa couldn't come.  He kept telling us, "You need to go to bed right after me so that Santa can come." Haha.  It was cute. 

Bath Brothers

Recently Bentley has loved taking baths with Kolton.  Usually what happens is I tell Kolton to go hop in the shower and Bentley comes running trying to take his shirt off saying "Be-be bath too!" So then Kolton ends up taking a bath with Bentley.  They play with the bubbles and shoot the balls into a cup.  These boys always have to have a ball within an arms reach...I swear!