We've been pretty busy!

Uncle "Shoes" came in town on the 23rd so we were able to spend Christmas eve with him and Papa Youngblood. Since Sloan was working a 24 hour shift that started 7am Christmas morning, we had our official Christmas a day early.

The boys wore their Christmas pajamas and woke up Christmas eve to full stockings and presents under the tree.

(I'm sure Jason will appreciate that I cropped his bed-head out of that picture!)

Zachary and Grant got a Mr. Potato Head set for Christmas and became obsessed with wearing the glasses!

We did tons of laundry! I know this is random, but Grant really enjoyed helping and I thought the picture was cute!

We left for Grandma and Papa Charlie's the day after Christmas. Papa Charlie bought he boys a Harley, but after Zachary crashed it into the wall he was terrified of it and would have nothing to do with it after that!

We had a birthday party in Austin on the 3rd. The boys are really interested in "diggers" and I found the perfect cake at HEB!

Once we washed off as much of the blue icing as we could, the boys opened a lot of really great presents!

Zachary and Grant LOVE their plane banks from Aunt Kathy, we talk about them every day!

I love Zachary's expression in this picture! We need to be opening his present!

We were so happy that Great-Papa was at our birthday party!

There is more to come! I'll try to be better about getting things posted!

Some early Christmas happenings...

The boys' Christmas present From Grandpa arrived Friday. Zachary was so excited when he saw the "big truck" that was bringing his new swing set.Saturday morning offered perfect swing set building weather. We started around 8:00am with the inventory of parts and lots of help from Zachary and Grant.

Zachary wasted no time making his mark.

A quick break for a little snack.

Around 12:30, the battery on the power-drill-screwdriver-thing died...but look how much we got done. Sloan decided this was the prefect time for pie, while I decided to grab a screwdriver and get the window boards up.

Once the slide was attached, the boys enjoyed playing in their new fort.

With a fully charged battery, the rest went up pretty quickly. Here's the finished product around 3:30pm.

Last weekend, we baked cookies to take to our neighbors. Surprisingly the boys did well with not eating the dough. The cookies were a little misshapen, but made with love.