Our Fishing Trip!

We decided to take the boys on a real fishing trip. It turned into an all day adventure. Here we are getting ready to back the boat in!

Carson drives the boat!

An oreo snack kept the first mates occupied while Daddy and Mommy fished!

Pressing buttons was fun, too! Thankfully none of the fishing equipment was destroyed!

The twins liked to help fish!

They were such good sports! On the way home they were talking about the trip saying things like, "I pet fish!" and "Ride Daddy boat!"

Cade and Carson!

Daddy and Carson reel one in!

Here's a black drum fish!

Here's the profits of our hard work! We caught about 15 fish! Daddy was impressed with Mommy's skills!

They are natural born fishermen!

We managed to only get two bloody lips!

Carson thought it was funny to put the ice on his head!

Cade decided he needed ice, too!

Carson, Daddy, Cade, Mommy!

We met up with Grandpa, Grandma, and Uncle Adam in Grandpa's boat!

Cade had fun blowing the horn!

Carson enjoys playing in Grandpa's boat!

Carson fell asleep in Daddy's arms!

Here we are back at the landing - after a nasty, dark, foggy ride back to the landing where I even asked Kevin if we were in the middle of the ocean!

The Day After Christmas!

Toys under the tree this am!
We went shopping after playing at the house. Here's Cade and Carson in the buggy at Sam's. We spent just under $100 on only diapers and wipes!

Cade and Carson love the fish at Bass Pro Shops!

Carson cleans out the barbeque container at McDonald's!

Play time at Mickey D's!

Merry Christmas!

Christ the King is born today!

Here is what Santa left out for the twins' second Christmas!

Santa has filled the stockings, too!

Wake up sleepy heads - Santa's been here!

We read the Christmas Story from the Bible in Luke 2 before going in to see what Santa had brought! The boys are so precious to us - we want to make sure they know the real reason for the fun stuff going on. Of course we share the Good News of Jesus with them every day because He is Lord all the time!

Let the fun begin!

They had to put on their new backpacks right away!

Here they are opening some presents from Mommy and Daddy! Carson thought he should hand every little piece of trash to us!

The boys enjoyed helping us open our presents, too!

I got a nice Columbia pullover from Daddy along with a new chain for my multiples necklace and this year's Thomas Kincaid Holiday plate that I collect! And how cool - a certificate to take a photography class! I'm so excited - I've been wanting to learn how to better use my SLR camera. I call it my "Big Camera."

Daddy got a nice wallet with a Bass Pro Shops gift card from Mommy! And a couple other goodies!

Carson checks out his stocking!

Cade is interested in his, too!

Yummy - he likes the candy!

These boys are ready to eat their candy and breakfast!

Time to go outside and see what Santa left outside!

Here was Santa's Little Helper's workshop! Santa had to drop off the playset since he was so busy making things for other little boys and girls like Suzi, Zane, and Austin!
Daddy worked hard for Santa!

And this is how we covered it up! Ha!

Daddy did good!
Yay! Cade climbs up to check it out!

Carson slides to the bottom!

Then we went to Kevin's parents' house! Fun with the train set at Grandma's!

Carson and Cade love playing with Grandma and Grandpa's toys!

Carson!

Cade!

The boys enjoyed opening these fun presents from Uncle Adam, Aunt Joni, and Austin - Cade thought the candy cane wrapping paper would really taste like candy canes. I can only assume that since he licked the paper!

More fun presents! We got legos!

Daddy opens a present!

Helping Aunt Joni with her present!

Helping Grandpa, too!

We love Grandpa!

Outside with Grandpa and Grandma after a faulty naptime!

Back at home playing with the Tag reader books from Grandpa and Grandma!

Christmas Eve!

We always go to Great Grandma Ree's house the night before Christmas, so we decided to give Kevin's parents one gift a little early (so they wouldn't have to see someone else open the calendar first)!

The boys have Teddy Bears that they love to play with at Grandma Ree's - Carson is holding one of them here before they opened their presents from Grandma Ree - new versions of the Teddy Bears! The boys love them!

The boys were having fun getting Grandma and the Teddy Bear all sticky with this lime drink!

Cade and Carson love their tractors from Uncle Tiny, Aunt Poochie, Megan, and Hunter!

They were finding little scraps of wrapping paper (from the paper ball war) to load in the trailors!

Back Home!

There was just no way to bring the fun Tonka trucks that Nana and Bopa gave the boys! So they'll get a re-gift when Nana and Bopa come for the twins' 2nd birthday party next year!
It feels so much better to play than to ride in a car for 4.5 hours!

Cade and Carson are very into presents now!

They worked hard to stack all of these on the stairs!