Holiday Recap 2011

Whew!  It's been a while!  I don't have many excuses friends, other than sheer exhaustion this holiday season.  I've been feeling a little off lately I guess you could say.  The holiday season has been packed with preschool recitals, shopping trips, family gatherings, decorating and all sorts of fun stuff.  The only down-side to all those festivities was that by 7:30 every night, I was exhausted.  I couldn't even hold my head up.  So I apologize for my break.  I will try to fill you in on everything you missed (a few posts at a time)....

Up first - Will's preschool recital.  Oh my goodness at the cuteness.  Will attends a rather small school here in our hometown and he loves it!  I really like it too.  He gets lots of one-on-one attention and he surprises me every day with all of the new things he's learning.  Here are a few of my favorites photos from his Christmas Recital -

(They were showing a slideshow of the children on the screen above the stage.  Will decided that was more interesting!)

Skip a few weeks to Christmas.  I'm terrible about not taking pictures at family events, so forgive me.  I usually take my camera, but I never get it out because I spend most of my time chasing children and feeding little hungry mouths.  So I only have a few pictures of Christmas morning, and a few of them were taken right after Santa arrived, before the kiddos were up.  

Santa wraps each boys presents in a different paper.  This is an easy way to keep each kiddo occupied with their OWN stuff and not deal with tags.  Will had the blue Mickey paper and Brooks had the red Thomas paper.

Santa had a hard time getting the teepee under the tree.

Brooks is checking out Will's presents here.

Santa left both boys an umbrella in their stocking, and fittingly enough, it was raining on Christmas morning so Will got to go out and try it out.  

We had a wonderful Christmas.  Unfortunately, I just couldn't find my Christmas spirit this year. Chalk it up to my feeling "off" and us rushing to get the basement completed before the holiday.  I just didn't want to shop.  I didn't want to wrap.  A week before Christmas, I had to pull it together and finish shopping, start wrapping and finish decorating.  The boys' excitement was cute enough to pull me through however.  Will's favorite gifts included his scooter, his Mobigo (a gift from my parents), a remote-control crane (a gift from Brandon's parents) and his umbrella (but he has truly played with every single thing he received and loves them all.  These are just the ones he wakes up talking about.)  Brooks' favorites include Will's scooter, Will's Mobigo and Will's crane.  Go figure.  

I leave you with a couple of cute Buzz Lightyears, doing what Buzz does best :)  

I promise not to keep you waiting on more posts.  Maybe I'll get another one in this weekend :)