Christmas 2012

 

Another blessed Christmas has came and gone. Breyton is more fun to watch each year and love the pure joy on his face throughout each experience of the season....from the Christmas music, the lights, decorating the tree, putting out the manger scene, singing happy birthday to Jesus, and family get togethers.

 

Thankful for this season, what it truly means, and for the family I have to share it with!

 

 

 

 My parents and their grandkids

                                     My sis-in-law Brittany, my mom, myself, and my aunt Deb

                                                   My mom, my niece Brooklynn, and I

 

My parents and I

                                                             My mom being silly:)

                                                       Brooklynn opening a present!

                                                           My dad and my brother

                                                          Breyton and Brooklynn

                                                     Breyton admiring the Christmas tree

                                                               
                                                                  Sweet Breyton

 

 Mason and Breyton on Christmas Eve

 

 

<3

Merrry Christmas*2011

I'm a little sad writing this the morning after Christmas....I can't believe its already over! This season went way too fast and I'm not ready to take down the tree or decor and for Christmas music to stop being on the radio! Breyton had the best time over the weekend though. He has always been a people person and loves all the attention he gets at gatherings. Breyton is the only little kid on either side as I have mentioned before, so he is THE entertainment at family get togethers. I will say that child is never lacking on energy or craziness! He can go ALL day.... and Saturday he did....he didn't nap once and was up far past his bedtime still running around laughing and being silly. Thankfully Christmas day he did fit in a short nap, however he was up till almost midnight which has never happened before, but with the business and excitement of the day it was to be expected. Each year gets better and better with Breyton at Christmas because he understands more and gets really excited! B got plenty of presents and was really into opening them this year and loved everything he got. I got a few priceless videos that will be so fun to look back on some day of him opening stuff and the facial expressions he made!
This year was also very special because it was our first Christmas to have miss Brooklynn! Breyton really loves his cousin and talks about "Brook-en" a lot. She is a very sweet and special baby to our family and with her hard beginning it really is an answer to prayer that she was here with us to celebrate this holiday! We all love her so much and cant wait to watch my niece grow because she is already such a beautiful baby girl who is proof God does miracles everyday.
As much as we enjoy watching them get gifts we always want Jesus to be the center of our Christmas. Even though Breyton is still young we started doing small things to make sure he grows up knowing the real 'reason of the season'. I look forward to many things for future years to come....but this year we mostly cherished Breyton being a little boy still and how he gets excited about all the little things! And of course getting to spend time with all our family eating good food. This Christmas will definitely be a special memory and we are truly so blessed to have Breyton and Brooklynn in our lives!

I don't have all the favorite pics uploaded to the computer yet, but here's a few from Christmas day:

Breyton's new teepee!

Christmas morning opening presents!

Christmas morning

New tractor and trailer

Brooklynn trying to tear into her present

Opening presents at Grammy and Gramps house!

Only family pic and Breyton is chewing candy in it! lol

Cute outfit Breyton got from his Uncle Matt and Aunt Vanessa

Decorating the Christmas tree!

I'm behind on writing posts, so this one is definitely late! We have had the tree up since the Saturday after Thanksgiving which is the latest we've ever put it up. This year was a lot of fun because Breyton really understood the concept better and helped put everything on with such excitement! He loved pulling out all the ornaments he'd never seen and was very excited about the lights. He asks in the mornings to 'turn on the tree'. The first few days he couldn't leave it alone and pulled off all the ornaments he could reach and we did have an incident where the tree got completely knocked over! However since then he has let it be and loves to copy mom and call it a 'pretty tree'!

His favorite ornament..a police german shepherd

Halloween!

Hard to believe this was already B's 3rd Halloween! He definitely understands the meaning of candy this year and had his fair share of it! The rest mom and dad confiscated for themselves:) This year I was pretty lazy on the costumes and went the cheap route. I like free things and since we already had everything it made the costume a winner. Plus a 2 yr old with a 5'oclock shadow is soo cute!

Here's my little beggar:( His actual sign was supposed to say will "beg" for candy, but it didn't in these pics) and trust me he begs!!

      Breyton and his bud Jennings before trick or treating in our neighborhood:

And here's Breyton on his first 2 Halloween's as a Cowboy(almost 3 months old) and a scare crow (almost 15 months):

                                  Cutest Scarecrow ever=D

 

                                Breyton and Jennings last year as well.....

Pumpkin fun.

The weather has been so perfect lately we've been spending most of our time outside. I was trying to think of something fun Breyton and I could do, so I got a pumpkin the other day so we could attempt to carve it together.
Attempt. A keyword here.
I haven't carved a pumpkin since I was a kid, but figured it was pretty easy and somewhat messy which I knew B would like. Not sure if it was the pumpkin I got or what, but when we tried to cut in to it we couldn't because the skin was ridiculously tough and hard as a rock. Therefore we had to change up the plan a little, but I think B had just as much fun this way, until we try again.....we will successfully carve a pumpkin this fall! Maybe we have to put Mason in charge so there's a little more muscle behind the knife, but I dont think anyone could have cut into yesterday's pumpkin. We even tried throwing it down on the concrete as hard as we could to bust it for entertainment at least...still didn't budge.
I ended up drawing a face on it and letting Breyton color on it with crayon(which works surprisingly well) because finger paints don't work and didn't think spray paint was a good idea:D All in all the pumpkin adventure took up a good amount of time and the original purpose was fulfilled...we were entertained!