Love my family

Friends

Our good friends came over to play today and we were just thrilled to spend the afternoon with a few of our favorite people!!!!

Christmas fun!

We've been really getting in to the Spirit of Christmas this year and all its' festivities! We've been to a couple of houses that have more lights on them than any I've ever seen, seen Santa a couple of times (busy guy), baked and decorated cookies, spiced pecan, macaroons, banana bread and "practiced" my pecan pie for James twice to make sure it would pass on Christmas:-) We had our friends, The Weldy's over and decorated a Gingerbread train, with lots and lots of frosting and candy! It's been such a fun season, especially seeing the excitement in Benjamin's eyes when with a flip of a switch all of the lights come on in our house or singing Christmas carols in the car and of course, watching Charlie Brown's Christmas special. I've always loved the wonder of Christmas but now that I'm a Mom it has a different, more wonderful feeling, just as my whole entire life does.

Photo Shoot

Vicki took our pics again for Benjamin's 2nd birthday and even though Ben was having a rough day and didn't feel like having his picture taken she still managed to get some good ones.

Fun with the Postal family

We got together for a fun little dinner/birthday celebration tonight with Lindsey, Dan and Aaron and after dinner took a walk to one of the most brightly lit, festive holiday houses in the world, which also had a Santa! We sat on his lap and took pictures (Ben did not want to be alone with him and was more comfortable with me on Santa's lap with him), toured the house and had a wonderful night with our wonderful friends! The boys are so stinkin' cute together!

Ben turned 2!

Our little guy turned 2 on December 1st and although James had taken off work on his birthday, we did not know that I would be sick last week and our plans would have to be postponed. It's a good thing he only turned 2 and wasn't aware of our plans or the change and luckily James still took him out to have fun at McCormick train park and then spoiled him at the mall with Cherry Lemonade, Funnel cake and hot dogs. Here is Ben on his birthday, having fun with Daddy! He loves going to the park, swinging and sliding and James told me how well he climbs up the slide and how fearless he slides down now. Our wonderful boy has given us the best 2 years of our lives and we are extremely thankful each and every day to be able to share our lives with him!