Our Hoarder

David loves to go to bed with LOTS of blankets and pillows and random things. His bed is heaped. Then in the morning when he gets up he wants me to haul EVERYTHING out to the couch while he watches TV. I need to put an end to it soon, however, or he is going to end up on the show Hoarders. He even had his play broom and swim noodle today. Kids are weird!

Fun outside

Sunday afternoon we headed outside to get some fresh air and have a fire with some hot chocolate.
Mikks liked to sit in a snowbank.

David and Daddy had a snowball fight. It ended in tears of course. David, not Damon!

Damon has dug a tunnel for the dogs to run around in the backyard and as a pathway to our woodpile.

Enjoying the fire.

Jimmy is king of the hill. This is how high the snowpile is getting. I can't imagine getting any more snow. Yikes.

Christmas Day 2010

Jimmy hanging out with me while we waited for everyone else to wake up.

The Lee Household is notorious for waking up early, EXCEPT for today. I was up at 6 o-clock, with Jimmy, waiting for everyone to get up to see that Santa had come overnight. At 8:00 I went and opened the boys doors, at 8:15 I turned their lights on, finally at 8:30 David woke up and quickly remembered that it was CHRISTMAS. He ran upstairs to wake up Daddy.

The first thing David noticed was that Santa put candy canes all over the Christmas tree again. He couldn't figure out how Santa got them to the top of the tree, apparently he thinks Santa is really short because he wouldn't even believe that I told David he used our step stool.

Trying to get a picture of the 2 boys under the tree.

David is already 100% into his first candy cane.

Mikko opened a Thomas the Train - his favorite!

Pillow Pets. David's only request from Santa!

David asked for a Dog Pillow Pet, Mikko got a Cow.

Mikko was mesmerized by this toy.

Jim and Fox eating their treats from Santa.

David got Hot Chocolate Mix in his stocking, Santa must know he loves it.

And scissors, Santa somehow knows all his favorite things.

David got this cool video game from Grandma Carol. Mikko loved watching him play.

And he liked to play too. Here he is in his Super Mikko cape.

Sharing w/ Grandma Carol.

Uncle Bob helped put David's new Scooter together.

Away he goes. This was a last minute idea that Santa had that is truly a hit!

Mikko passed out in his Super Mikko cape on a plastic bag. Christmas is exhausting!

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Feeling so blessed today to have a perfect family to celebrate Christmas with.

The boys were so good through all the craziness the last 3 days. They are so lucky to have such wonderful grandmas, grandpas, aunts, uncles and cousins who love them so much.

Christmas Eve

We woke up Friday morning and put a ribbon across the fireplace so David could tell when Santa Claus came through the fireplace.

We decided to do "Ugly Sweaters" for the gathering at Mandy's house. I decided to make the boys festive shirts too. I was very surprised/disappointed (?) that they turned out quite cute, and not ugly at all!!

The boys enjoying a beer in their cute sweaters.

Mikko and Grandma both had tree shirts on.

Grandma Carol helped all the kids open their presents.

Mikko really didn't care much for opening presents. I think David got a bit overwhelmed too and became mesmerized watching "A Christmas Story" on TV.

Mikko had more fun playing inside the boxes than opening them.

Wow! That is hot!

Dusty won the contest. His was quite hideous.

When we got home we made a plate of cookies for Santa. David wanted Santa to have chocolate milk instead of just regular milk.

Feeding the reindeer.

Boys playing earlier in the day.

Shark Attack

One more picture from Dave and Mary's house last night.

The kids all got animal towels for Grandma and Grandpa.

David got a SHARK towel. To try and persuade him to pose for a picture and put the towel on, Damon told David to put the towel on and scare mommy.

Here he is running and lunging for my leg and biting me REALLY hard.

He got scolded pretty bad, but his response was "But Sharks Bite Mommy".

It was actually pretty hilarious and he really didn't mean any harm by it.

We all got a pretty good laugh about it, out of his sight, of course.

(Christine, I copied this picture from your blog when I noticed you captured the moment of him running towards my leg)

Christmas at Grandpa Dave and Granmda Mary's House

Annual Xmas pajama shot! Our best sitting yet!

We're losing Mikko now!

Attempt at one with Grandma and Grandpa

Grandma was rubbing Mikko's back and had him in a trance. He fell asleep at one point and rolled off the couch and didn't even move when he hit the ground!

The kids playing.

Fun with Uncle Dusty

David got a Castle!

Mikkers and Sophia playing with he new house.

The girls won the photo contest again!

Cruisin'

Leah wearing my sparkles!
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Last night we celebrated Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa.

The kids were all so good and played together so well.

We had lots of good food, games, and tons of presents!

A fun night as always, that we look forward to!