Christmas Day at the Gray's

 After Christmas morning at our house, we headed to Grandma & Grandpa Gray's house.  Dylan helped pass out presents again.  He was a little helper at all the Christmas parties/gatherings.  

 Jacob stretched out on Grandpa Gray.

After opening his presents, Dylan played with some of his new toys until dinner was ready.  This thing is awesome.  It's basically a kindle for kids.  I was a little jealous, ha ha.  Anyway... both of our children did extremely well with all the parties and visits this year!  I am so thankful to have such wonderful children.  It was our 1st Christmas as 4 and a excellent one it was!

Thank You everyone for the wonderful gifts!

Christmas Morning '10

 A rare thing happened this year on Christmas morning.  Daddy was the 1st one out of bed, haha.  Dylan must have heard him though because seconds later, he was awake and ready to go downstairs too.  It was an exciting year for Dylan this year.  Although I don't have too many pictures to post from that moring, we do have some video too so I'll have to work on getting some of those up for everyone to see.

After all the presents were open, Daddy & Dylan spent time playing with new legos and even played a round of Candy Land while Mommy got a few baskets of cookies put together.  Daddy was wearing his Christmas present too.  He's like a kid in that aspect, haha.  On top of the absolutely wonderful Christmas morning, we also had a few flurries to complete the morning.  Nothing crazy but just enough to have a white Christmas morning.

Christmas Eve at Momma G's

 Dylan & Mommy at Momma G's Christmas Eve party.  Dylan was patiently waiting to open his gifts.

 Uncle Barry meeting Jacob.  We are so busy during the holidays that it is hard to visit all of our families.  So for some of my family, this was the first time that they got to meet Jacob.

Thank You to everyone for the awesome gifts!!!

Christmas Pictures '10

Jeff, Brandi, Dylan & Jacob

Christmas 2010

The Boys

Christmas 2010

Jacob - Month 2

Jacob's 2nd month was a bit more challenging than the first, believe it or not.  He gave us a couple of weeks of sleepless nights coupled with gassy issues, ha ha.  Either way, it passed and we survived.  He is back to his super happy & sweet self.  Jacob is a very smiley kiddo.  All you have to do is smile at him & he lights right up.   Jacob had a few giggles already too!  He is very close to rolling over.  One of his new favorite past times is staring at his fists with amazement which he holds straight up in the air.  He is so comical to watch.

As you can see from the picture above, he has chunked up quite a bit too!  At his 2 month check-up, he weighed 13 pounds 12 ounces & measured 24 inches long.  He has already almost doubled his birth weight.  He is one solid little boy!

Poor Jacob had to get his first round of vaccines as well at this check-up.  He surprised me!  He only screamed with the initial shot but was done by the time they got the band-aid on his leg.  What a champ!!!

Happy 2nd Month Jacob!

Faith Christmas 2010

 Grandma & Pappy Faith celebrated their Christmas the weekend before.  Dylan is super excited for Christmas this year! He has been so entertaining to watch.  His reactions to everything are so exaggerated.  It's awesome.  Three is a great age to capture the excitement of the holidays.  It's just as exciting to be the parent!  It's going to be a fun Christmas!

Jacob hanging out on Grandma's lap.  

Every present he opened was like it was the first.  He was so adorable.  Dylan quite enjoyed every single present and has spent every day since then digging in and playing with all of his new toys.  Thank you all so much for all the awesome gifts!!!

2 days until Christmas!!!

Cooing & Smiling

Jacob at 7 weeks old.  He takes after his Mommy & big brother already.  He is constantly trying to talk or making cooing noises.  I even caught a smile on camera... which is rare.  Usually I'm 2 seconds too slow.

Enjoy!

5 more days until Christmas

Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Dylan's favorite Christmas song.  He knows most of it but gets stuck from time to time and needs a little help remembering the words.  He only sang half of it on camera but I still wanted to share with all of you.  Enjoy!

11 days until Christmas!!!

Jacob's Cute Noises

My boys...

Christmas Cookies!

Ahhh Christmas!  Everyone loves the holidays!  One very small element that I love...  Christmas baking!  Dylan and I have been making all sorts of yummy cookies.  Dylan loves to help with the cookies.  He is an expert at pouring ingrediants in the bowl now... mixing too.  This year I have found several amazing recipes!  These chocolate chip cookies are the BEST that I have ever made.  I was a little skeptical at first because they are a little different than your typical choc chip cookie but yes... just amazing!  I also have finally beat my cookie nemesis, the oatmeal raisin cookie.  Baking like this is not really helping me drop those last ten baby pounds, ha ha ha.