Our Family Christmas

The day after we got back from Kansas, Santa came to visit us! Here is the letter Cooper wrote for Santa. (He wrote the one on the left, then told me what to write on the right).

I think I helped think of Rudolph but I mentioned nothing about sins, that was all on his own :).

Cooper was SO excited to see the presents! He has the best faces!

Jackson was too.

Cooper with his pile of presents.

Here's Jackson!

They first opened their stockings.

One of their favorite presents were these transformer costumes.

Cooper also got a police uniform and a marble set (which he's opening).

The aftermath of presents!

We had a snowflake breakfast that morning.

After we got dressed they went outside to see their last present from Great-Grandma and Grandpa S. They were SO excited.

It was their very own jeep!

Woo hoo! They have been loving it, it's definitely the hit of the neighborhood!

I received a giant hershey kiss in my stocking from mom and dad and Cooper was kind enough to help me eat it. :)

We had a great Christmas and it's so sad that it's over. On to Valentine's day!

Kansas Trip Cont..

Since the weather was so nice while we were in KS the boys all went outside and played football. Cooper was in heaven!

I tried to get a group photo of th eboys (BJ, Cooper, Ryan, Jackson, Chris) but Jackson wasn't really into it.

Here's a good one! (minus J)

Clearly he was not wanting his picture taken! :)CHRISTMAS MORNING! The boys loved celebrating the birthday of Jesus!

Here is Cooper with his Santa present. Santa sneakily brought one present to KS for the boys. The rest he delivered to our house once we got back in town.

Jackson's ready to open!

So's Cooper!

Jackson got this really fun ball from Uncle Chris and Amanda. He was able to jump on it right away!

Santa brought Jackson an electric keyboard! A great distraction on the drive home!

Cooper's gift was a game for his leapster.

Grandma and Grandpa S got the boys remote control cars that do all sorts of flips and tricks. They thought they were so fun!

Christmas evening Aunt Emily came over (along with Uncle Doug, Aaron, and Holly). The boys enjoyed being read to by Emily. Also Great-Grandma and Grandpa S were in town, along with Aunt Liz, Valerie, and Uncle Jeff. I was so bad and got NO pictures of them. I can't believe it!

Jackson's checking out the gift that Uncle Chris and Amanda gave Cooper.

We saw a hot air balloon! I haven't seen one in FOREVER! Wouldn't that be fun to do on Christmas?C was watching the hot air balloon and the geese outside.

Unfortunately with the way our trip was lined up we were only able to get to KC for a very quick visit. We were able to see a few friends-here are all the kids:

Jackson, Maya, NOlan, Max, Cole, Cooper, Avery, and Cade. SO glad we were able to see them all, just wish we could have seen even more of our friends! Hopefully our next trip.

The next day we drove home! Jackson and Cooper do so well in the car and make the trip pretty easy for us, thank goodness! The next day we celebrated Christmas at home.

Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa S's

We traveled to KS to visit Grandma and Grandpa's house for Christmas. We had a great time and were able to see lots of family while we were there. Here's some pictures from our first few days:

Here's cutie Jackson in front of the Christmas tree! I took a picture of Cooper like this but now can't find it!



Uncle Chris reading to Cooper and Jackson


Our family photo. This was right before we went out to eat for Grandma's birthday!


Celebrating a special birthday for Grandma!


The next day the boys opened one of their gifts from Grandma and Grandpa...

Kstate gear!

I left while they were opening them so Ryan finished taking pictures.

Aren't they so cute in their gear?Playing football!

Uncle Chris with the boys. We didn't get one with Uncle BJ, sorry!Then we opened presents from Uncle BJ and Auntie Jodi. Jackson got a KState shirt (SO Cute) and a KState Bball.

Cooper got a blaster gun while he LOVES and a Kstate football!! GO KState!That evening we played family games once the boys were in bed. Ryan was game master this year so he had to plan some games.

We played a Christmas unwrapping game...

and a few minute to win it games.

Fun times!

(for some reason it kept making some of my captions into links, I have no idea if it'll link anywhere or not-I'm curious to see! :)

Cooper's Class Christmas Party

Cooper had his class Christmas party a week or so before Christmas. My friend and I are his room mom's so we planned the party. It was my first official duty as room mom so I was kind of nervous, but I think all the kids had fun!

This is a picture of the snack the kids made.
Here's his class waiting for instructions.

The games! First we did a snowman relay race with the cotton balls.

Then they did another relay race where they dressed in all of these silly clothes and then ran to the finish line and back. The kids looked so cute! Here's Cooper all dressed up.

The last activity was with his teacher. We had the kids decorate her with personalized ornaments to look like a Christmas tree. The kids thought it was really funny. She even lit up! :)

Here's his class.

Cooper's snack.

Cooper and one of his buddies in his class-Luke.

A fun day!