A Lazy Sunday

What do we like to do on a lazy Sunday. Well, when it's football season Nate likes to get his football fix. Carson usually gets his time with dad fix. Lincoln usually gets his run around and make a mess of the house fix (but, I guess, technically he gets that every day). And I get my camera fix. The results were nothing fancy, but I had fun.

I am so lucky to have such sweet and adorable Boys:)

Christmas and New Years

We had a quiet Christmas at home this year. We had plans to make some trips to visit family, but because of sickness and weather we opted to spend the entire Christmas break at home, and it turned out to be exactly the kind of low key break we needed. We ended up doing a lot of hanging out, but also managed to squeeze in over the break painting, sledding, bowling, and partying with family that came up to visit.

Carson and I making our Gingerbread train

Carson being a shepherd in the Christmas Eve reading of the Nativity.

Nate narrating the Nativity story and Lincoln paying attention dutifully

One of the many big hits Christmas morning was this very cheap foam sword. Carson got two swords, but they didn't survive the week before they broke. Luckily there were enough new toys to play with that Carson wasn't too devastated by their demise.

This race track was a big hit but Santa didn't bring it until a couple days after Christmas to replace the remote control car that wasn't working and had to go back to his workshop.

Lincoln loved his little interactive musical toy.

Family Sledding trip after Christmas

New Years Eve - Lincoln turns 1!

New Year Eve we celebrated this little guy turning the big 1

The puppy cake

Lincolns first taste of cake (icing)

By the end he was quite into his cupcake


I wanted to get some cuter shots of Lincoln enjoying his first sweets, but they didn't turn out quite how I wanted because Lincoln hated the frosting; most of my pictures turned out like this...

Yep not a fan of store frosting.

Baby's First Christmas

It seems like Lincoln was around for last Christmas since our Christmas tree was still up when he came home from the hospital, and since I was so huge and pregnant that my belly probably could have been considered a seperate member of the family. But officially this is Lincolns first Christmas as a full fledged member of our family.

Merry 1st Christmas Lincoln!

The First Snow

Last week we got our first snow of the season. Carson and I went into the back yard and scraped together about a third of the snow from our back yard in our efforts to create this sad little snowman. In our defense, it wasn't very good snow for building a snowman. Hopefully, we will get a little bit more snow over the holidays so we can build a respectable snowman. After all, our last name is snow so it seems only right that we should have some skills when it comes to the white powdery stuff.

Carson's new obsession with firefighters carried over in the snowman's choice of hats.

More Holiday Cheer - Tree, Cookies, Eagle

We have been busy enjoying the season! Some of the things we have been up to are: Getting a Christmas tree, baking cookies, and going to the Eagle Christmas festival. The highlight of our Christmas tree hunt and decorating for me was that Nate let Carson help with almost everything to get the tree ready. Carson got to drive with Dad when hauling the Christmas tree hom, he helped saw off the end of the tree, and he "thought" he helped carry in the tree. He felt very important because he got to help so much. Several times while Carson was "helping" with the tree I tried to get him to come do something with me and he would say "I can't mom I'm very busy working" or "I'm doing important stuff mom." It was so cute and it gave him so much pride in himself thinking that he was being such a big helper. I really appreciate having a husband who takes the time to put forth the extra effort that makes our kids feel special. The Eagle Christmas festival was fun. The kids loved riding on the trolley from place to place, and seeing the live reindeer, but the highlight for Carson was getting to sit on the firetruck. And the best part of the cookie making (besides eating them) was seeing how excited Carson was to deliver our cookies to the neighbors. He insisted on holding every plate of cookies and telling people "Merry Christmas." It was really sweet.

Christmas Tree

Us standing by what I thought was going to be our Christmas tree. I found a much better tree about 10 mins latter

Nate and Carson giving the thumbs up sign and ready to drive home with what we thought was a securely tied on tree. Little did we know that we were going to have to drive 2o mph about half the way home because the tree started to fall off the back of the car.

The Snow men carrying in our tree

O' Christmas Tree

Eagle Christmas Festival

Lincoln looking cute in his new hat

Carson practicing his Firemen skills

Cookie Making

My little helper rolling the dough

Carson enjoying a favorite Snow family past time, eating cookie dough

Carson intently decorating his cookies

Holidays

I know this is very late, but what can I say the Holidays get busy. We started out the Holidays this year by spending Thanksgiving in Utah, and had a very nice time with Nate's family. I had planned on taking pictures of the event, but after traveling in the car for four hours with a sick and exhausted baby, I was too tired and hungry to even think about pictures when dinner time rolled around. But it was a very very very good Thanksgiving dinner! That same weekend we thought we would start out the Christmas season by taking the boys on the Polar Express up in Heber City Utah (Carson LOVES the Polar Express movie). We played up the Polar Express big time. We drove around Heber a little bit and had Carson look for the Polar Express, and then when we found it we acted like we didn't know if we could ride on the train, because we didn't have any tickets (at this point Nate reminds Carson that in the movie the boy finds a ticket in his pocket). So Carson reaches into his pocket and finds his very own ticket. Carson was jumping around he was so excited to get on the train. I tried to get some cute pictures of him at the train station, but didn't get any because he wanted to stay in line to make sure that the train did not leave without him. Carson ate up the whole Polar Express trip. He absolutely loved it! Carson said his favorite part was getting his ticket punched by the conductor and getting a bell from Santa. The trip would have been perfect except that Lincoln was still sick and not in the mood to sit for an hour and a half. Overall the trip was a great success!

Grandma & Grandpa Holland waiting with us to get on the train

In front of our train car

Trying to get a cute pose from Carson who was too worried about missing the train to even smile

Anxiously waiting for the train to leave

Lincoln's first encounter with Santa (He seems most interested in Santas beard)

Carson holding his Bell (It came off the reindeer Blitzen, at least thats what the elf said)

A visit from Aunt Stefanie

Nate's sister Stefanie came up for a visit last weekend, and we had a great time! Carson especially enjoyed playing Star Wars with Aunt Stef. As you can see from the picture, Stef was at quite a disadvantage in this game with her 2 inch sword. Carson pretty much won every fight, which made the game quite popular and he was constantly asking Stef to play Star Wars. Also, we got out and enjoyed the new Zoo exhibit, which I thought was really nice. I essentially got no pics of the Zoo, but on our way to the car we had a good old fashioned leaf fight and I did manage to snap a few pictures of that.

Stef with the boys

Playing Star Wars (That itsy-bitsy blue thing was Stef's sword, and Carson is swinging a two foot pirate sword)

LEAF FIGHT!

Nate becoming one with his inner child

Carson just being his own age


Nate and Carson being forced to pose. (But they are so cute together how could I resist?)