Family Time

Being snowed-in has given us all a chance to relax and enjoy some family time together. Matthew's work has a mandatory shut-down for the week after Christmas, so we were so fortunate to all be together. Next year there will be 5 of us enjoying our family time!

White Christmas

We had quite the snowstorm on Christmas day. It was nice because we had nowhere to go and nothing to do, except play with Aiden's new toys...unfortunately nobody was able to make it over for the prime rib dinner because we all ended up being snowed in! We didn't leave the house for 5 days and loved every minute of being stuck.

Rather Under-Impressed

Apparently Santa needs to step up his game, because all Aiden cared about first thing Christmas morning was all of the presents Izzy and Papaw gave him the night before. We had to force him to open his presents from Santa! He finally opened them, but then went right back to playing with his train set and coloring book. He was happy that Santa remembered his "yellow choo-choo train" as it went so well with his gift from Izzy and Papaw!

Christmas Morning

Once Aiden got into the swing of things, he really enjoyed opening his presents!

Christmas Eve with Izzy and Papaw

We all headed up the mountain to celebrate Christmas Eve with Izzy, Papaw, and Aunt Jenny. After a delicious dinner of pork roast and dumplings (and lots of chocolate almond milk for Aiden), he was ready to rip into his presents. He waited very patiently for the fun moment! He was very excited about getting a train set and a "Woody and Buzz" coloring book.

Ornament Painting

We were looking for a fun project to personalize Christmas presents for the grandparents, so painting ornaments seemed like a good idea. Aunt Jenny came along to help keep Aiden "on track" during the painting process...the brushes are just too much fun!

Surprise, surprise!

We went for our first ultrasound tonight...and were extremely surprised to find out that we are having twins! I was having all sorts of twins dreams when we first found out we were expecting, but the midwives assured me that I wasn't measuring big enough for twins. Turns out mother's intuition was right on! The babies look great and are both on target for size. Now WE just have to get on target. Turns out we're going to need one more of everything =)
We couldn't be more excited, this is going to be an awesome ride!

A Little Holiday Baking

Aiden loves to help bake in the kitchen...but his favorite part is licking the beater!

Trimming the Tree

Aiden was such a helper with the tree this year. The only concept he didn't quite grasp was spreading the ornaments out when hanging them. We ended up with about 20 ornaments in a one foot square space! He was so proud of hanging them, though!

Visiting Santa

Well, we weren't sure how visiting Santa was going to go this year...last year there was LOTS of crying and running away! This year we were all surprised that Aiden voluntarily sat on Santa's lap (with Daddy, of course) and even whispered to him he wanted a "yellow choo-choo train". We were so proud of him, especially because he came up with this yellow train idea all by himself! Hopefully Santa will bring him what he wants!