Christmas has come and gone already!

Christmas Eve

Older brothers can be cruel.

I guess mom's can be too.


Because instead of helping the poor boy get his beloved binky back....

...I decided instead to snap pictures of the amusement.

I love this final look of resignation.
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More Christmas Eve Pics:

After having friends over for dinner, I was more interested in crawling into bed than taking pictures. But Collin's persistent little voice left me little choice, "mom, turn you head and smile, now smile mom!! No, you need to smile!"

And the following outtakes are proof of the frustrating task of taking pictures of my children. Does everyone else have this problem?
Seriously, check these out:

This is what happens when I let them pick out their own Christmas pajamas.
Two matching adorable snowflake pj's.....

....and one spaceship themed pajamas.
(it seriously wasn't worth the fight to make him give these up)

I think Caleb is wondering why they can't just be normal.

And an almost decent shot, if Caleb didn't look like he was in a severely uncomfortable headlock. We tried. and tried. and tried.

I've dubbed this one the official Christmas Eve Pajama Wearing in Front of the Christmas Tree Shot.

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Christmas Morning

The following is an insane amount of pictures of my family showing off their Christmas spoils. I really don't see the necessity of writing a caption in between each pic, so enjoy in silence!

That was awesome...now on to Friday.

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Friday

We had been promising the boys a "big hill" to go sledding at.

How freakish is it that yesterday was in the fifties?

What???

So the big hill covered in snow was turning into a water park.

They each took a few turns, but the bottom of the hill was a huge puddle, which was fine when they went by themselves, cause they would just hydro-plane right over the water.

But when they went together it ended up in a big splash.

So the sledding didn't last.

And the only pictures I got are these of Tom pushing them back towards the car on flat ground.
It was still fun.

Hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas!!