"Merry Christmas!"

Christmas Eve

Riley and I making cookies for Santa.


The guys hanging out while the girls made the cookies.


Family shot!

The best picture of the kids we could get in front of the tree. (Riley cannot hold Keegan for too long, nor does she really want to...we had to be quick.)

Santa's cookies by the Christmas tree - time for bed.

Enjoying a Cupcake

Decorating Cookies

Our friends had us over to decorate Christmas cookies a couple of weeks ago and we had lots of fun. Riley had fun making cookies for dad, but we managed to bring one cookie home for Santa.

Gingerbread House

This year making the gingerbread house was lots of fun with Riley. It held her interest for a bit, but she really just wanted to eat the icing and candy.

Next year Keegan can get in on all the fun!

Working hard...

The finished product, so pretty!!

Breakfast with Santa

Our church did breakfast with Santa last weekend...if you look at the first picture you can see how that went. Riley was excited and happy to see Santa until it was her turn to sit on his lap. We had talked about it hoping she would be okay with it, but there is always next year. Although if you ask her what Santa says she will say "Ho, Ho!" and if you ask her what Santa is going to bring her she will tell you pink polish for her toes, it is very cute.


This is not going well at all, but Keegan seemed quite content.


At least the screaming stopped!


Happy it is over and happy about the candy cane Santa gave her. At this point if you ask her if she had fun with Santa her response is "Yes!" (It does not seem as though she had fun, but if she thinks she did that is great.)

Riley and Ella

Here is Riley and her friend Ella, it is very difficult to get two little girls that are almost 2 to look at the camera at the same time and smile; I guess I should say it is impossible. It is okay, they are so cute together. Ella is our friends Jeff and Jodie's little girl, she is 5 days younger than Riley. They also have a little boy who is about 2 1/2 weeks older than Keegan - we could not have planned this if we tried, but it is great having friends with kids the same age.

Keegan's Baptism

We had Keegan's baptism last weekend and it was great. Matt's grandpa performed the baptism which made it even more special. We decided to go a little non-traditional for the outfit, but I thought he looked super handsome!! Keegan surprised me and did not cry one bit, and yes, he was awake the entire time.


My cute little man in his VERY cute outfit (a funny face, but you take what you can get).


This is us and Keegan's godparents, Jeff and Jodie.


A special moment.


We enjoyed a nice lunch afterwards, with dessert of course.

So cute...

It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas

We also did our inside Christmas decorating and I am so happy! I love Christmas and I love having the tree and decorations up. This year we had to get a little creative because we do not have a fireplace or any type of ledge to hang our stockings, but we got it figured out.


Riley had fun telling us where to put the ornaments.

Christmas Lights

Last weekend we started getting ready for Christmas! Matt worked hard on Friday getting our Christmas lights put up on the house and they look great!


Here he is hard at work!


Keegan slept in the front carrier on me and we watched Matt work.


Once up from her nap Riley had fun outside while Matt put up lights - she liked sitting on the bottom of the ladder. (Now when you ask her to smile you never know what kind of face you will get...so exciting.)


So pretty!!