Christmas Recap

We had a wonderful Christmas this year!  Lincoln definitely enjoyed it more than last year but not near as much as I think he will next year.  Everytime he opened a present he would say "Wow."  He enjoyed the act of opening them more than the actual toy at times.  He was definitely spoiled ROTTEN by all the love, attention and gifts during our 5 day trip.  Cory and I, of course, were not left out and were given way more than we deserve.  It was a joy to spend some with our families and to find out at the same time we would be having a girl!  Such a treat.  All that being said, here are the pics from Christmas!

Opening presents at Pop-pa Don's

Christmas morning at Papa and Gigi's

 Christmas at Mimi and Poppy's

Dragging Lincoln all over definitely started to be apparant towards the end of the trip.  He is a pretty good traveler but too many days out of his routine and not sleeping in his own bed really starts to catch up with him.  He slept extra long at night and took extra long naps the few days we were back home. 

And this is this is the only picture we took of our family at Chrstmas so I will post it again.

Weekend at Mimi and Poppy's

A few weekends ago we headed south so spend the weekend at Mimi and Poppy's house (Cory's mom and stepdad).  About the actual trip, we have always had a hunch that Lincoln may be one to get carsick but this trip helped confirm it.  We took the backroads which is about two hours of two lane roads and Lincoln cried the whole time.  Overtime he has become a pretty good traveler so it only made sense that the roads were upsetting his stomach.  We finally stomped and I climbed in the back seat with him.  Once I did that and held his hand and talked to him he was asleep in 5 minutes.  Bless his heart.

Ok back to the weekend.  Poppy was mainly at the deer camp all weekend but he stopped by a few times to visit.  In fact the first time he stopped by to visit was Saturday morning with the deer he had just killed.  Lincoln was not sure what to think of the dead animal that did not make any animal sounds. 

Later on that morning Cory's twin brother and his family came over to hang out with us.  We played out in the yard with the leaves, ate lunch and then went to the park at the local elementary school down the street.

We had a great time visiting and hanging out with all of our family!

And, we arrived home on Sunday evening just in time for the bonfire/hayride at our small group leaders house.  I only took this one picture all night.  I guess I busy having too much fun.

Birthdays all around!

This past weekend Mimi came up to visit and help us begin our birthday celebrations.  My birthday is the 14th and Cory's is the 16th.  Mimi watched Lincoln on Friday while I continued my inservice for the beginning of the school year.  They had a fun time playing outside, shopping and cooking our dinner for Friday night.  Saturday we ran a few errands and then on Saturday afternoon she left to make 4 hour trip home.  Thanks Mimi for coming to visit!

Sunday we enjoyed the afternoon eating lunch at a one of our local favorites and more shopping!  I had so much fun hanging out with my boys.  Lincoln was feeling very affectionate, as if he knew it was my birthday!  Cory caught these priceless pictures of us. 

Then on Tuesday evening, we celebrated Cory's birthday by cooking his favorite dinner at home, opening presents and going to the local park to play with Lincoln. Here are two pictures of Lincoln and Cory back in June that I adore and I am not sure I ever blogged.

I love having mine and Cory's birthdays so close together.  As Cory tells it, I LOVE "togetherness" so I enjoy getting to basically share our special days.  However it should be noted that Cory is...ahem...older :)!  There is no one I would rather share with. 

Speaking of sharing, Cory is quite use to sharing his birthday since he is a twin and all.  Happy Birthday, Uncle Cody!  Here is one of my favorite pictures taken of Cody and Lincoln last October.  

And last but definitely not least our little princess of a niece has her special day on Friday!  We love you Tilly.  We hope you have a wonderful day!  This picture more than sums up her little personality...

Lots of people to celebrate and lots of reason to eat cake around here!

Happy Hump Day!

Lincoln's Loot.

After a bath to clean off the birthday boy he was ready to open up his loot. As any good kids birthday party goes, he had lots of little helpers. Here is Brodie showing him the ropes on how the baseball machine works.

Brooklyn showing Lincoln how his new swing from Mimi works.

Showing Lincoln his new tickle-me Elmo from Pop-pa.


Lincoln giving Elmo a hug.


Taking a ride in his new wagon from Papa and Gigi.



Lincoln again giving Elmo a hug. He does not give sugars, only hugs.




Opening up presents is hard work.

After presents, the party continued outside with the kids jumping outside in the bounce house as well as taking turns trying to break open the parrot pinata. In the midst of the craziness I have no pictures to show for the those events. The party was a hit and the last person left about 4 hours after the party started.

We wrapped up the day with photo opts with his grandparents -- Mimi and Poppy

Papa and Gigi with the birthday boy.

Proud parents!

Hope you enjoyed your first birthday, Lincoln. We love you!