Will's First Christmas Performance!

Will's school had their Christmas performance today. We were on the 3rd row so we had a great view of him. Will was very interested in all the older kids behind him on the stage. He did not sing much but was into the ringing of his bells! Gigi, Pop, and Daddy all came. Santa was there too but we skipped out and went to lunch under the conditon that we made cookies when we got home! (Mind you we have already seen Santa 5 times!) We then spent the rest of day indoors due to the NASTY weather.

Ben was a good baby and Gigi did a great job keeping him busy so we could get pictures and video.

Early to bed, early to ???

Will went to bed at 7 tonight, which is unheard of at our house. Will typically does not nap on school days. We went to the hospital early this evening to greet Miss Norah Eloise into the world. Daddy's college buddy and his wife welcomed a little girl into their family yesterday. The boys did fine at the hosptial. We even ran into the child life director from St. Jude. I told her we will come visit sometime before Christmas.

I just hope Will does not wake up at the crack of dawn!!!

Will 2 years ago...

Exciting News!

Heather, Erik and Will

I have been wanting to post this but I wanted to ask permission first. Our good friends Heather and Erik are expecting their first child this June. We could not be more excited for them. We pray for a healthy and happy pregnancy!!!

Breakfast with Santa

Will with Santa 2 years ago.

We went to Gigi and Pop's church today for breakfast with Santa. We had taken Will 2 years ago but missed last year due to Aunt Missy's wedding. Happy 1st Anniversary Aunt Missy and Uncle Jim!

Will had fun eating pancakes and doing crafts with Gigi. They had musicians performing some Christmas carols and hymns. Will loved the trumpet (good thing Uncle Robby has one to pass down if he is interested in playing one day)! We then made our way to "Will's church" and then home for a rest!

Ben has 2 new teeth...his top ones!!! This explains why he was up for 2 or so nights this week. Also, we bought Ben his first pair of shoes today. We probably could have waited another week or so but who wants to go to the mall that close to Christmas...not us!! Mommy did get a treat though....some Williams Sonoma hot peppermint chocolate mix...yum yum!!!

We finally got our Christmas pics of the boys done for our Christmas card....it was not fun! But hopefully we will get our cards in the mail soon. The pic above was one of finalist but did not make our card...

Questions

We are going to an event at our church tonight called "Happy Birthday Jesus". I told Will today that we were going to a party for Jesus. Well of course he wanted to know if Jesus, Mary and Joseph were coming and the most important...."Mary's donkey!"... I said we will have to see... and that kept him a little quiet and then he fell asleep (mind you this conversation took place in our van). He will probably forget about it when we get there because I believe there is a cake involved!

Cold!

It is very cold outside today. Not much going on here except mommy has been wrapping presents like crazy!!! Ben is now taking more steps on his own. He is letting go and then taking off with a couple and then sitting back down. Will helped me decorate our tree in the kitchen with the ornaments we have made at the Advent workshop at church.

Tonight is our Sunday school Christmas party so Will and Ben will have a fun evening with Gigi and Uncle Bub!