It's official!

It's official. Lincoln has been sleeping for a full 8-9 hours a night once he finally falls asleep! Hallelujah! It's been like this for a week or two now and I'm loving it. The only downside that I've seen so far is that he doesn't fall asleep until between 1:30am-3:00am so I can't sleep for that entire time, but at least I'm not getting up all night long anymore.

I love you my sleeping angel.

All about Linc ... again.

What else can I say? I just can't get enough of my little boy. I adore my other little boy too, he just doesn't hold still for photos as much anymore. So once again, this post is all about Lincoln.

Double Blessing, January 2nd

Because our babies were born so close together, Kace and I decided we would bless our boys on the same day. They are about 7 weeks apart.

We took a few photos a couple days before for our display table. Here are a few from that:



Tyler ALWAYS has his mouth open!




Mart was so nervous about the blessing, but he did a really good job. He's so cute with his boys.





At the luncheon:

Christmas at my moms

Christmas this year has been a little strange. It's not bad, just different.

Our schedules haven't worked out quite right so at my mom's house we have had to have 3 separate Christmas's, one that hasn't even happened yet. I guess that's a good way to extend the holidays...have Christmas 3 Sunday's in a row.

This is the first one, it was on the 26th. It was just my family, Ty and my mom.

Ethan helping Grandma:



Lincoln trying on his new boots from Grandma:


I totally love his little chicken legs hanging out with those furry boots.



Mart made my mom really neat blocks with the 10 commandments on them. They only weigh like 80lbs total! They look really awesome though.



And my mom spoiled us as usual with our Disneyland tickets (less than 3 weeks now!) a cricut and a double stroller to take with us! That will be so handy!


Could Ethan possibly look ANY bigger sitting next to him??


Christmas #2, January 2:

Ethan was totally in love with this piano! He loves anything with buttons. My favorite part was that it came with headphones. :)


Ty was playing pat-a-cake with Lincoln. You may not be able to tell, but Ty does not like babies...they make him really nervous...which is a little odd considering he has two little boys. This was pretty cute to watch.




Christmas part 3...coming soon. January 9. Pictures to come.

Christmas Eve

My mom has hosted a Christmas Eve party for as long as I can remember. We always get together and just hang out. For years and years we would just fry anything we could find and snack on that all night long, and ended up leaving with sick stomachs. This year, she decided we were going to change up the menu and we did homemade soups with fresh bread bowls from great harvest and we broke out the old chocolate fountain from my wedding. It was fun and none of us left sick!

My Grandma hanging out with Linc:


And what would a Christmas even party be without opening up Christmas pj's so that the kids can wake up Christmas morning in new jammies!



Jaden's pj's had a minor mishap which I thought was really funny. He pulled the first slipper out of the box which was a black slip on, and then pulled the second one out which was a brown moccasin. He kept looking at his mom questioning her thinking she had done it on purpose. She was totally shocked that they were wrong. It made me laugh pretty hard.


Everybody showing off their new pj's:


The last couple of years since my family has grown A LOT, each member of each family will draw a name and we just get them gifts instead of buying for everyone. Ethan had Karlin's name but she wasn't going to be there on Christmas so we gave it to her Christmas Eve instead. Mart has been planning her gift for probably 6 months and was super excited to give it to her. He built her her very own vanity. It turned out really cute.