Waffle Block Presents!

Tuesday afternoon, Clayton built "presents" with the waffle blocks, put a small toy inside and placed them under the tree. It was soooo sweet. It was all his idea, it actually took mommy a minute to figure out what he was doing so as not to scold him for playing with/too close to the Christmas tree. I'm sure glad I let that one play out!

Daddy's Birthday!

It was on Saturday, and he was at the York Wrestling invite all day, so the boys and I celebrated by making his cake (and snitching some batter for him).

Yum Yum!

We even sent him a quick video message to tell him Happy Birthday!

The boys also made cards for Daddy! Clayton choose red paper because "Daddy likes red" (such a sweet and thoughtful thing, he loves to ask us all what our favorite color is, then we are supposed to ask him too. We are not allowed to change our answers from day to day, either!)

A picture of Daddy. "Where's my  hair?" . . . "Oh, I forgot" 

The card from Reese is a picture of a rock he says. . .

Front

Middle (Mommy wrote it, duh!)

Back

In the evening we had a little Christmas family get together at the Hearthstone with Great Grandma Diane Carlson. The boys enjoyed a few too many cookies and playing with their cousins (well, 2nd cousins, and 1st cousins once removed, but who's counting?)

Thanksgiving Pictures!

Our Family on Thanksgiving Day (was spent at Papa and Grandma Branz's house with Uncle Ty and Molly, and Uncle Brandon and Aunt Besty, cousin Kolby and new baby cousins Ava and Quin).

Thanksgiving 2014

The next day was spent in Lincoln at Grandpa Mark and Grandma Dianne's house watching the Huskers play football on TV (and eating pie). Also in attendance, was Aunt Amy, Great Grandpa Aldon and Great Grandma Erna, Great Aunt Phyllis and her granddaughters Evelyn and Clara, as well as her son (Mommy's cousin) Mark and his wife Becky and their 9 month old daughter, Delaney. It was such a fun family time!


When Grandpa Mark took the boys out for a 4 wheeler ride, Reese was sure to tell Delaney "Baby, you stay here!" hahaha. Apparently  he also just HAD to drive!

photo by: Aunt Amy

 Clayton enjoyed playing and building Duplo towers with Aunt Amy

photo by: Aunt Amy

 So proud of a tall tower!!

photo by: Aunt Amy

photo by: Aunt Amy

Checking out Aunt Amy's phone

Look out when Aunt Phyllis is around for dessert! Reese knows who to ask for help with his pie!!!

and extra whipped cream . . .

"Again?"

Christmas Decorating (and a birthday party yesterday!)

We decorated the house for Christmas today. Now I know why we've always set the tree up during nap time and not when the boys were up like we did today. . . YIKES!!! There's not a lot of my Christmas decorations I trust with a 2 and 4 year old. BUT they were able to help with their own little felt tree! They can do as they please with this one!

And here is Reese (shirtless, what a surprise!) arranging his Little People Nativity set. 

Then yesterday we were at Darrel's cousin Nicole's daughter, Victoria's 1st Birthday Party! Her brother Everett is a little younger than Clayton and they enjoy playing together. They loved to take turns on Tori's new riding toy!

Happy Thanksgiving

From the Branz Boys! Here are all their Turkey preschool projects.

Reese's turkeys:

Clayton IS a Turkey:

And Clayton made this with a foot print  and hand prints:

Rough housing with Daddy

This is from Wednesday. . . I'm not sure what led to them thinking they needed to strip down to just diaper/underwear, but they were having so much fun! Poor Reese kept falling off and bonking his head, but that didn't slow him down too much. You can even hear Clayton say once that he's gonna "take you down" to daddy.

33 Degrees, heat wave!

We finally made it outside to play for the first time in what feels like weeks!