All My Sons

Swing Buddies

Aiden and Griffin chilling out together swinging. Aiden is looking out the window at Ethan's snowman ;)

And The Stockings Were Hung...

For the past few years we hoped to hang more stockings every Christmas. Well our wishes came true this year for sure! I love these stockings. Unfortunately, they ran out of red stockings and sent Griffin a green one...he didn't seem too upset by it though ;)

Cookies for Santa

I am really proud of us for keeping this tradition (not putting out the cookies of course we would have done that, but making them ourselves from scratch!) despite how crazy our lives were at the time, it is so great to have these pictures!

Christmas Eve 2009
Cookies for Santa, Carrots for the Reindeer, and an extra Milk for the flight...nice job E!

We set everything out before E & I went to 10pm mass thinking he'd be asleep on the ride home, no way, he was too excited!!

Liam, don't worry we won't leave you out for Santa ;)

Would you like some cookie with your M&Ms?

Ralph the Elf

We had a fun little visitor this Christmas, Ralph the Elf (of Elf of the Shelf fame). He turned up in the craziest places...hanging from our miseltoe, in the Christmas tree, in Ethan's mailbox reminding him to mail his list to Santa, peering over the "No Girls Allowed" sign in the playroom-E's favorite spot, he landed somewhere new each morning he returned from the North Pole.

We were sad to see our fun friend leave Christmas Eve, but we know he'll be back next year to keep track of all the good little boys in our home!