Christmas

We had a very low key Christmas this year!! 

Christmas Eve we just hung out together as a family! 

Kailie being Kailie!

  Poor McKean! 

Don't worry no babies were hurt doing this shot. Maybe this is how he learned how to rollover so fast!

So fun to have Kids for Christmas!!

 
Say Cheese!
Now we know where Kailie gets her eating skills from!

Checking out the Christmas lights and probably hoping that the tree will at least provide some protection from his big sister!

We make Chocolate Nativities for our friends and Neighbors every year. This year we had some left over so we got them out as we read the Nativity story and "acted" it out using the figures. It was fun and I think Kailie actually might have paid some attention and then at the end we got to eat them. 

It was fun and I think we will make it our Christmas Eve tradition!

Then we let Kai open up one present Jammies of course and off to bed. I don't think she quite grasps the whole idea of Christmas yet but she is getting there.

Christmas Morning. 

Waiting on the stairs to see what Santa brought us!

Santa brought Kailie a Scooter!! Awesome!!

She loves it! And she always says Santa brought me a scooter!

Santa brought McKean a Bumbo!

Horray!! I think he likes it!

I have been working on his stocking sine the beginning of December. Usually I start on them earlier but I just didn't have the chance so the last couple weeks before Christmas I stayed up late every night to work on it and finished Christmas Eve. Jared wanted to do the Cowboy Santa since Kailie's is the Hawaii Santa which is great but now I have no clue what our next kids will get!!

I was hoping maybe he would fit in it like Kai. 

No such luck.

 

Kailie got yogurt raisin, underwears and a vibrating toothbrush that lights up which was a huge hit and still is. It is a must now to brush her teeth in the dark.

We decided to keep Christmas very low key. One Santa gift, one gift from us and one family gift. This was her gift from us. 

The Chipmunks!! 

She loves the chipmunk movies so I just knew she would love these guys and she does!! 

She also got a pink lamp for her room. She has been wanting to "read" by herself every night and was using our small little headlamp so I thought it was about time for her to upgrade to a normal lamp.

Time for church! 

It was kind of weird to get all ready just for one hour!!

I just can't get over how cute these two are. 

I know I am biased but man I love having them in my life.

  They make life so much more fun (most of the time)!!

We had dinner at the Cragun's which was nice and super low key then it was home to pack and get ready to fly to Utah in the morning! 

Overall, this was a really great Christmas. It wasn't all about gifts and we were able to help out some kids who are in need which was definitely mine and Jared's favorite part and Kailie seemed to like it as well. I kept telling her we were buying gifts for kids who didn't have Mommies or Daddies and she kept saying it. Hopefully some of it sank it, but if not there is always next year! 

Christmas time around these parts!!

I love Christmas time and there is just something special about putting up the tree. Kai was old enough to help this year. Her idea of helping consisted of putting the ornaments on the tree and then taking them off again. I love that I have a tree that the kids can play with. Any special ones, I  put up top and the bottom ones they can play with. I loved playing with them when I was a kid!

McKean was all in the spirit as well thanks to his big sister!

We didn't do a whole lot of holiday stuff this year like see santa but we did go down to the Riverwalk and looked at all lights.
It was definitely no temple square but it was fun and freezing. It was in the 30's that night. I thought San Antonio was supposed to have really awesome winters.

Kai and Savanna playing on the River walk!

Speaking of the weather. I really don't get it here. I don't think San Antonio gets it either. Here we are putting up Christmas lights and all of these really pretty flowers just all the sudden sprang up in our front bed.

Umm is it spring or winter or fall. Every day is totally different here. Sadly, not too long after this picture the weather turned really cold and all the flowers died.
Now it is back to the ugly dead flower bed.

Just two cute kids!!

Silly girly. 

I was trying to get a picture of her in her pretty Christmas dress and she was being her usual silly self.

Finally a cute one!

McKean in his one and only church outfit.

He is a cutie and I finally got him a few more things he could wear. 

This Christmas season was definitely a unique one. 

We didn't do a whole lot but it was fun to just stay home and hang out as a family!

Oh the good ole days!

Oh the good ole days of hanging out with these guys. 

 Crazy to think none of these kiddos existed when we first met, except Savanna! 

 They are just as crazy as their parents!!

 I don't know what I do with out Andrea here. We hang out all the time and she is our lifesaver. Her and Justin watched Kai for us when McKean was born. That is no easy feat and we don't know what we would have done without them!!

We were definitely missing the rest of our Hawaiian Crew and Hawaii!!

Party Time!

These two little squirts got to celebrate their Birthday together again! 

How crazy that we get to live by each other again!

They sure have changed since their 1st birthday party!

They are two super cute kids!

We wanted to do a fun and easy party so we rented a bounce house and thought they kids would just all play out there and we adults could all hang out and talk!

Well that didn't quite happen since it was pouring rain and super cold!! 

Lame!

So we played a few games inside and then just let the kids go wild. It was pretty crazy! Of course they were all good while waiting for Cake and Ice cream!

Brinley loves bugs so we did a bug cake for her!! 

Andrea helped me make all the bugs and I think they turned out super cute!

These two sure are fun especially when they are not fighting. They play good together for awhile but then they always have their fights. Kailie is pretty obsessed with Brinley and anytime I tell her we are going to the store or anywhere for that matter she always says "with Brinley" as she turns her head to the side and smiles it is pretty cute!

This photo cracks me up.

McKean was not to happy and Madi is looking at him like what's your problem dude!!

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Opening up presents. 

It was pretty chaiotic and I don't think Kai and Brinley really knew what was going on. 

Bundle of JOY!

 Smiles all around for this little duders!

 He smiles all day for me but rarely smiles for Jared.

It is kind of funny! 

He knows where he gets the good stuff from!!

Growing like a weed!

This little dude is growing like a little weed!! He is two months already which has gone by incredibly fast! His two months stats are Weight: 10.9 lbs, which puts him in the 45th % instead of the 5th at his two week checkup. Height: 22.44 in.

 In his going home from the hospital outfit, definitely not too big on him anymore!!

 

 We have loved having this sweet little guy in our lives. 

He is a really good baby, only cries when he is hungry or  getting bugged by his crazy sister. Or right around dinner time. It seems that is his fussy time which can make things pretty crazy while trying to prepare dinner!

He loves to cross his arms still.

What have we learned about this little guy so far. 

Well for starters he LOVES, LOVES, LOVES his binki!

His second night home he was kind of fussy and so we scrounged around and found some of Kai's old binki's and he has been hooked ever since. I am not really a binki person myself and I don't give it to him at night because I don't want to have to get up in the middle of the night to put his binki back in his mouth. So he gets to enjoy his favorite only during the day!!  

 
Or occasionally a finger will work!

Speaking of sleep, he got kicked out of our room officially a few weeks ago because he is the loudest sleeper. He grunts all night long it is kind of cute but really annoying in the middle of the night.

He seems to like his crib better anyways. I am sure it is more comfortable.

And occasionally he ends up in our bed in the mornings for a while. He is doing pretty good sleeping. He goes on average about 5 hours at night but  I am definitely ready for him to bump that up to 7 hours.

 Taking a nap with Daddy, sort of!!

 He slept like this for over an hour!! Seriously how can that be comfortable.

He loves to be around everyone and look at everything. Of course the ceiling fans are his favorite and the pictures hanging on our wall.

He also loves to stand and is pretty strong.

 He is really strong and loves to hold his head up. He has been doing this since he first came out!! He seems to like tummy time and falls asleep in it all the time. Silly boy, you are supposed to hate tummy time!! He even rolled over for the first time on the 25th of Nov. which is crazy because he wasn't even two months old. I think it was just a fluke thing but we will see!

 

 He loves his swing and spend alot of the day in it!

My favorite thing about him is that he is my little cuddle bug. He loves to cuddle. If he is on your left side like in the above photo. He is not happy till he nudges his little head right in by your neck. It is the cutest thing. I wish I could just sit all day and cuddle him.