December Fun

December has been SO busy but we've managed to have some fun too! "Hey mom, look at me...I'm Elfie's twin! I even smile like him"
Brayden and I "tried" to make a gingerbread house one Sunday after church. We were too impatient to wait for the frosting on the house to dry completely so naturally our house totally collapsed once we put all the candy on it. But thankfully we have a high tech construction management professional in the house who put it back together for us with a glue gun! Thanks dad! Seriously next year I think I am just going to glue gun it together in the first place...its not like we ever eat the thing anyways. Actually, I think next year I'll sit back and relax and let Guy make it with the kids. That sounds like a better idea! :)
We had our best tree ever this year! It was so pretty and BB took decorating it very seriously!

And Tyler surprisingly never knocked it down. A true miracle!

Brayden pretty much rearranged our tree daily. All ornaments got their turn at being in the front
I found Tyler in this basket one day. He emptied it and crawled in with his favorite toy. Its this super annoying singing/dancing hamster that wiggles its arms and legs and sings "We Wish you a Merry Christmas" in the most obnoxious way. It pretty much drives me crazy, but for the boys, it never gets old...which is why it drives me crazy! :)
Brayden with his 2009 ornament...Lightning McQueen of course! He is obsessed! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Hill for the pj's you got him for Christmas. They have been a hit!
We loved driving around and looking at Christmas lights. There are a few neighborhoods here that go all out so we let Brayden stick his head out the sun roof for the best view...we were only going like 2 mph :)
We took the boys to the Polar Express Train ride again this year and had so much fun. Here's Brayden with the tallest Santa ever!

Pretending to be a penguin on the spray painted snow...best we can do here in Texas!

He loves Charlie Brown and was very excited to see this!

It's frosty and a reindeer

Before the train ride they had this little program concert thing and they had all the kids come up and yell...I mean sing, a song together! Brayden pretty much loved it. It was a nice glimpse at what our future will be like at a million school programs! Oh, I just can't wait...

He was beyond excited to finally get on the train

All Aboard

Look who's coming...

It's SANTA

Santa tried to hold Ty's finger and say hello

and Tyler pretty much FREAKED out!

Santa makes him cry every time!!!

Merry Christmas everybody!

Train to the North Pole

We surprised Brayden this weekend with a polar express train ride that took us to the north pole! We got to see Santa on the train and there were lots of other fun things to do before and after the train. They had the town all decked out for the holidays so it was fun to just walk up and down the streets and browse all the shops. Brayden got to wear his new "christmas" pj's early since they had a train on them so he was pretty excited about that! The funniest part was before the train ride the conductor was going around having kids say "all aboard" and Brayden was chosen. It was seriously the cutest thing ever to hear him scream it in the microphone all by himself! It was a fun thing to do as a family this year!:) Just click on the pictures to make them a little bigger! These are some pics from the train ride. We might just have to go again next year since we'll have 2 boys by then! These are in honor of Brayden's 'Charlie Brown Christmas' movie obsession! It's the only movie he wants to watch these days and he knows all the words! Funny kid! This girl was performing Christmas songs and Brayden decided he needed to be front and center to listen to her. He didn't even care where we were at all! It was so funny!