Merry Christmas!

Sometimes it is the phone pics that turn out the best. I can't tell you how in love I am with this picture because it captures our cute, funny, playful 2 year old so well! He is so hard to photograph and yet Ally caught this on her phone! We are having so much fun right now during this Christmas season. Having this sweet 2 year old who gets so excited about everything Christmas related makes it all that much sweeter. He loves seeing Baby Jesus, Santa, Frosty, Christmas lights (they make him happy he says), horse drawn carriages, etc! His enthusiasium is amazing. Makes me stop and realize that I need to take it all in more. What a beautiful season - celebrating the birth of our Savior. May you have a Merry Christmas with those that you love celebrating the most amazing gift ever given!

Really?!?

I have to capture this one on the blog. This is pricless. When it was happening, I was pretty annoyed and embarrassed. Now, I think it rocks. We tried to take a cousins pic with a photographer - so you know - we paid money for it. I am not sure why I thought my child would be interested in doing this. He's not always the easiest going kid and only likes to do things when it is his idea (not sure where he got that trait...oh yeah, that would be me). This was about 5 min into the session! Yep - that's him. Face down on the ground...crying. There actually was one good pic taken at the very beginning. I'll post it after Christmas so you can see is he a sweet, adorable 2 year old at times! (Actually, he's sweet most of the time!). I really am planning to frame this one. It beautifully captures the trials of being 2. The greatness of this pic is Dylan's cheesy smile in the background. It is clearly forced and you can just know what he's thinking - I'm still smiling like I'm supposed to! :) Sweet Dylan.

2 yr School Pic

I never posted this. Here is his school picture this year. It isn't a very good scan for some reason, so please excuse. This makes me laugh. He's got that serious grin. It is a very Will pic!

Ho Ho Ho!

Well, he still wasn't a fan this year! They took Santa pics at Will's school and I was excited because I really thought that if he saw his friends sitting in the old guy's lap that he wouldn't be as unsure. Nope! :) Maybe next year!

What happened to November?

Well, it looks like my blog fairy took the month of November off. What is up with that? She’s falling down on her job, so I guess I’ll have to get to work myself. No, I don’t have a blog fairy, but it appears I need one! I’m so, so far behind! I missed Halloween, but I will do some back blogging….soon.

I did want to pose this precious pic of my cutie patootie. He brought this home from school. How did they get him to take such a cute pic? I’m jealous! What has this tooter been up to? Well, he’s been pretty sweet the last few weeks, which has been a blessing. For a few weeks he was a bit of a handful. We’re working through it together. He is very opinionated. He now likes to pick things out. We always let him pick out his pj’s because well, that’s an easy one. It is a little harder when he wants to pick out his regular clothes. I didn’t realize this would start so soon! He is saying some of the funniest things. He seems to answer everything…yeah…ok. Not sure why he doesn’t just say yes! When you ask him if he’s okay, he says….yeah…I’m ok. Makes me laugh. He’s a mess. A sweet mess.The most exciting thing that happened this month is that we welcomed a new nephew to the family! Kevin’s sister Kellie and her husband Nick are proud parents of Jackson Lee Worstell! He was a big healthy baby weighing in at 9 lbs 10 oz! Kellie is a trooper for laboring with him! He arrived the day before Thanksgiving on Nov. 23rd. He lives in Nashville, TN, so we are more than itching to get some snuggles with this cutie! Will is loving life with all these boy cousins! Oh the fun they will have! We can’t wait to meet you, Jackson!!!

Well, you know we’re still alive and well. Maybe one day I’ll get caught up and back on track. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving and are enjoying the Christmas spirit!

Halloween 2011

Ok, I'm back dating this in hopes it shows up at the right time. I'm finally catching up on some blogging and posting pics of this is a must! Will was a train conductor for Halloween! What else would he be, right? He hates wearing weird things and I knew he wouldn't wear a traditional costume. This has to be the least costumey costume, right? Well, he still didn't want to wear it! Ha! Finally got it on him and out the door to our annual neighborhood block party. Very fun! I didn't charge my battery and it died shortly after this, so I have very few pics! :( Super sad! Bad mommy! But I got this one - it is the best I got of the full outfit. Here we are with our neighborhood friends that we love! Ms. Paula and Bryce!
Before the trick or treating the kids all played and Will zeroed in on a ball and held on tight - surprising, right? :)

The actual trick or treating itself - was a blast! I wish I had video of it. Will was so well behaved the whole time and was so sweet! His sweet little voice when he would say trick or treat and thank you was so cute! I loved every minute of it! We just went back down our street home from the party, but it was such a fun memory. Sweet boy loved it!

Fall Fun!

As I’ve said before – I love fall! There’s so much to love about it. I’m working less, the smells, football, the weather, AND fall festivities! Saturday we had a fun day. We started off at a classmate’s birthday party (where Will rocked the massive blow up slide & bounce house). Then we went to a fall festival at the school Will will attend one day and then a hockey game! Here is a cute pic of my cute little man! He is in the petting zoo section. He was all about petting the animals. Dylan went, too! Miles and Mimi had fun checking everything out This is a cute series of pics of Dylan. He is super pumped about getting into this blow-up ball thingy. He was so cute! I believe he had fun! Man do I love these boys!!! So much to be thankful for! Will’s friend, Bryce, joined us at the hockey game. The boys were all so well behaved at the game! I couldn’t believe it. They loved it! How cute are they? They would cheer and clap and were way into it! This is a random picture, but several suites down from us were some of the Rangers! C.J. is bending down signing stuff that the people below were throwing him. Napoli is the guy in the white hat/grey sweatshirt. Holland was in there, too, but he isn’t visible in the pic. Kind of cool! We still love you Rangers! Even though our hearts were broken. :( Fun, fun weekend! Lots of fun to be had tomorrow night at our neighborhood party and then trick or treating!!