Fun with Christmas card photos

It's twice as much fun to take Christmas card photos with my two boys in them instead of just one. I was really happy with the way my cards turned out this year!

Miles wanted to eat my Christmas ornaments when it was time for his individual picture

So we gave him a toy instead, then we decided that wasn't a good look for the pictures

so finally he gave us this one

and this cute one

Oliver is ALWAYS full of silly faces!

But he still gives me this adorable when if I take enough pictures

In the end, Miles tackled Oliver

And then they had some cute Tummy Time together under the tree.

LOVE this!

I love it when my baby cuddles into me like this!

My two boys watching Miles' baby signing video for the first time together. It's amusing to me how something that Oliver probably watched one hundred times when he was a baby is totally brand new a few years later. I'm hoping Miles will catch onto signing like Oliver did, and I'm thinking with three of us teaching him, he will.

Christmas Decorating

Oliver was a big help decorating this year, he had a great time decorating Grammy's tree when we were in Utah over Thanksgiving, so he was really excited to decorate ours. Miles, on the other hand, didn't really get in on the action; instead, he preferred to eat bananas using his teething feeder and snooze away in his cozy bed.

making sure it was just right

piling the decorations on one branch

yet another decoration pile

the finished tree and my cute little helper!

so pretty!

ooh, I LOVE that! :)

Love my mantle!

Swim time, Tummy Time, Swing Time, Slide Time

Miles is hilarious on his tummy time lately. He goes from tummy time to swim time and back and forth and back and forth.

Tummy time

swim time

tummy time

swim time

Check out his tummy time/swim time video

I should have added drool time to the title! :) This is how his baby carrier looks every time he's in it!

Swing time

Oliver loves to lean back on his swing...he got that from me! :)

He has created a very tricky way to swing him self...instead of pumping, he uses his feet back and forth to push himself and he can really get going. SWING Oliver! :)

Check out the video of Oliver swinging in his own trick style if you don't mind turning your head to the left. Oops!

finally some slide time!

Cute brothers

I actually don't know what this face is, but I get it a lot lately.

Happy Early Birthday Michele!

Today we met Jerone and Debbie for our second yummy lunch at Cafe Rio for this trip. Miles got some good Aunt Debbie snuggles until we realized he had had a blow out so we had to cut our time short and head for home. Fortunately, we would be seeing them with the remainder of their family that night at my parents for a celebration for Michele's birthday.

That afternoon, Oliver played checkers with Gramps while I put Miles down for a nap

And then we went to work making my Grandma Brown's sugar cookies. My mom helped and it was so much fun!

I didn't take a picture of the finished product, but they turned out yummy!

Some of the cousins playing at Michele's celebration

Cute Emily!

Grammy feeding Miles his evening bottle

Uncle Jerone and Layla

Layla would pose every time she saw me with my camera. LOVE that cute girl!

And finally, blowing out the candles. Happy 32 little sis!