Christmassy

Some pictures of our Christmas!

Our leaning tree. It was our first real one since we've been married!

Chocolate milk and gingerbread cookies ready for Santa.

Lightening McQueen hat

Construction vehicle set


Epic snowball fight on Gramma Nancy's porch!

Gramma Nancy & Grumpa Brian's house

New 4x4!

About to destruct the beginning of the snowman (we never did get a snowman built thanks to "Aiden The Destructor"!)

Gingerbread house!

Aiden's visit with Santa

Aiden saw Santa at the mall today! He did really well, went right up to him and sat on his lap, told him what he wants for Christmas and posed for a picture! He's such a big boy :)

New TV

We decided to upgrade to a bigger TV when we noticed how small our (already pretty big) TV looked in our new entertainment center. We decided to try and find good deals on Cyber Monday, and ended up finding a great deal on a HUMONGOUS TV. The problem was that we brought our old TV to Matt's parent's house as their Christmas gift, so when we got home and had a couple days before we could pick up the new TV we had to use the small flat screen TV Matt bought while in Iraq. The difference in size is HILARIOUS!

(Matt's small TV is 19".......the one we bought is 60"!!!)


Before:


After:


It makes the people on screen look almost life-size!!

A Science Project

Aiden has discovered the hilarity that is static electricity!

Birthday party at home

We had a little party for Aiden at home. Beth's family came down and Aiden's friend Brooklyn came over. Aiden loved having everyone here and got some good presents!

Party Central:


Birthday cat is not amused.

Cake from the Commissary!

Happy Birthday!

The "twins" enjoying the cake

Brooklyn helped Aiden open his presents

The Aunties got right to work on the coloring book

Aiden's 4!

Aiden is officially 4 years old! Here's some photos from his actual birth-day:

Eating his pumpkin muffins:

Leftover muffins we'll bring to his class:

Leftover icing makes for 2 funny faces!

Birth time picture!

I'm a little sad since this time next year he'll be in Pre-K, which goes all day, so we probably won't be able to get our annual birth time picture :( Maybe his teacher won't mind me showing up and getting a picture with a different clock!

Nesting out of necessity

We finally got all the Ikea furniture put together! The last piece was Aiden's tall dresser. Of course there had to be one problem - Beth somehow managed to put one unpainted piece on the front! Luckily it was a small piece at the bottom, so I just bought some flat black paint and painted the part. It matched perfectly, and now we have touch-up paint in case we need it! We also finally got the whole office room cleared out, and Beth moved furniture around so the office is offically the baby's room!


View of Aiden's room from his doorway:

The dresser is the far right piece:
Aiden's bed!

Baby's room! I *love* the curtains. I found the pink ones on eBay and bought the dark brown ones and the double curtain rod at Wal-Mart.