Snow, Snow, and more Snow

I can't believe we have had so much snow around here! Usually we have snow maybe once every two years... but we got it three times in the span of 7 days! WOW! I loved introducing the snow to Hagen and Mason. Yep, those are socks - the snow caught us a little off guard and mitten-less.

Hagen making snow tracks.

My cute snow bunnies. (Mason on the left, Hagen on the right)


Daddy trying to build a snowman - but just like blocks, once it got so high, the boys just couldn't resist stomping through it!

Hagen driving his tractor through it.

Daddy still trying to work on that snowman.

Papaw and Mamaw's Christmas

Papaw with Mason 'So, what's new Scout?' (Hagen and cousin Scout)

The boys got these 18 wheeler trucks (you can see Hagen's yellow one in the picture)... the boys LOVED them and wouldn't stop playing with them! Look at this HUGE smile :-)

Making a Gingerbread House with Aunt Erin

We saved the Christmas cookies and Gingerbread house for Aunt Erin to help us. Here are the boys helping Aunt Erin and Grampa build the house.

Notice Hagen's black eye (a run-in with the dresser).

The boys were so excited to decorate they had a hard time waiting the full 15 minutes for the icing to dry on the house... they started decorating.

'Look Aunt Erin, I'm doing a great job decorating!'

Aunt Erin helping Mason create a structurally sound decorated gingerbread house.

Uh oh, looks like we should have waiting the full 15 minutes :-O

Tractors

When Grammy and Grampa came, they brought two tractors with them. John Deere tractors that is. The boys were so cute, walking out of their room to see the tractors. I think they were kind of confused at first. Once they caught on, Hagen cracked us up - he would just look up at each one of us and just start grinning from ear to ear. He did this the WHOLE time he rode on that tractor!
Mason testing it out. He was a little more reserved in wanting to drive it. I think he preferred just sitting on it.

Hagen couldn't have been happier.


Mason maneuvering it off the porch.

After the boys were in bed, we broke out the Wii and taught Grammy how to bowl.

She caught on and got second place. Out of kindness, I won't mention who got 3rd or 4th... But I will tell you that the two women got 1st and 2nd place ;-)

Erin got to join us the second night - I have pictures of that coming :-)

But here are the boys looking at a book with Grammy.

More Christmas

I am really behind on blogging because of all the celebrating of Christmas we have been doing. We also started potty training today and I ran out of patience that caused me to run out of perseverance. I am praying I get more of both of those by tomorrow morning. The only thing that makes me think I might possibly try again tomorrow is thinking about all of us that are potty trained, so it is possible - right??

My family's Christmas celebration:

Here are Gran and Mason celebrating with food. If you follow my blog, you know that last year Santa visited, this year... it was an Elf. (forgot what her name was?) Notice, who is up front to greet the elf?!
And also notice, who has the Elf's hand and isn't letting go the entire song of Hokey Pokey... did not let go! Hello ~ cracking me up!

All the great-grans with the Elf.

Group picture time - all the great-grands. (the boys did really well considering we weren't up there with them)

Grand kids with spouses.

Gran catching a runaway (Hagen)

Mamaw with her children (and spouses).

All the great-grands with Mamaw

After all the extended family left, we hung around with Paucci, Gran and all the other grand kids. Megan (Trish's daughter stayed to play with Ruby).

Paucci and Conner played checkers (Hagen helping)

Ruby and Megan teaching Mason how to play Lady Bug.

Then the girls decided to 'teach' the boys - so cute :-) (Couldn't believe how cooperative they were!)

We also had an angel (Lily) and an Indian (Conner) make appearances.

Mason and Hagen coloring.

The next morning, we headed back over to Gran and Paucci's for our Christmas.

We made omelets in a bag - lots of fun and then I discovered our presents were still at the house - opps!! So we all killed time waiting for Jeremy to drive back to our house and get the presents.

What did we do?

Take pictures of each other (Hagen took the picture of Gran while she took a pic of him).

play the drums

play the rain maker, flute, and sing

The boys got two big boxes of musical instruments to continue practicing ;-)

Hagen and Mamaw in a lesson on sharing :-)

So sweet!

I will continue playing catch-up, hopefully I will finish Christmas celebrations before the year is up... hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.

Johnson Christmas

We are lucky to be surrounding around so much family. Jeremy has huge families on both sides of his family tree ;-) So, December is full of celebration with different families. Last weekend was the Johnson Extended Family Christmas. I forgot my camera (hate when I do that!!). So, thankfully Nancy took some on her camera and emailed them to me. (Thanks, Nancy!)

Here we are from left to right: me, Hagen, Jeremy, Papaw, Mason, and Mamaw. Aunt Nancy playing dominoes with Hagen and Mason. (Mason had so much fun on Nancy's lap... he didn't leave it for quite awhile. I wonder if he picked up some domino tricks?)

Reindeer Cookies/Playdate

I uploaded these pictures in the wrong order, but I am too tired to move them... so bare with me :-)

We had a playdate the other day at Misty's house. She has triplets, Abigail, Katie, and James. We decided to play, have a light lunch, and make reindeer cookies.

Here are all the kids sitting around the table eating lunch. Notice Abigail or Katie (?) still has her lion costume on, ha ha ha.Hagen: Did I hear you say cookie??Here is one cookie (made by Misty) to show all the parents what the finished product should look something like.Hagen showing me his cookie after he ate about 4 M&Ms. I would turn around to put the cup of M&Ms back on the counter and when I turned back around he would be missing an eye. I wanted him to have a completed reindeer for the picture.
Mason with his cookie.

Misty has one of these bouncy horses (whatever they are called) at her house. The boys LOVED it. We had several small temper tantrums when they had to take turns.

Mason with his turn.

Hagen on my lap, Mason on Debbie's lap. Mason had fun with Ms. Debbie. She helped him label all the parts of the manger (over and over) and she helped him buckle his naked barbies into their jeep ;-)

The boys loved the barbie cars. We helped them find some barbies to put in the cars. Unfortunately the barbies had no clothes. I just had to tell the boys that when they have girls in their cars, they should be clothed. :-P

Hagen lovin' that car.

And what playdate would be complete without playing in the kitchen. I still say the boys need one, but Jeremy says no. I'm trying to find a barbecue one or something... they just loved playing in there! Notice, no girls are in it playing - only 3 boys!