Merry Christmas

A wonderful, snowing white and blessed Christmas happened for the boys this year!

We spent Christmas Eve at the Godparents house enjoying a seafood extravaganza and Jackson made a new friend named Tyler. Tyler is 5 years old and he and Jackson spent the evening chasing each other and laughing all night long! Dispite the snowy and icy weather we made it home safe and sound and the boys promptly crashed out from exhaustion.

Christmas morning Jackson awoke around his usual 8:30 while Jacob saw fit to wake up quite a bit earlier (much appreciation to Ben who let Stephanie sleep in with Jack!). When Jackson woke up MaaMaa was more than happy to hand him his Elmo stocking filled with all kinds of chocolates and treats! It certainly didn't take Jackson very long to figure out how to open his tasty treats!

Jacob enjoyed his graham crackers, gerber peach cobbler and arrowroot cookies as a tasty morning treat while everyone else enjoyed Stephanie's made from scratch blueberry crumble cobbler (yummy!)

The boys made out like bandits for gifts, really too many to list here but the big hits were an Elmo PJ bag and rocking horse from MaaMaa, a new book from Nana in Florida and a guitar from Grandpa and Grandma Jeda! Jacob loves his new "blub blub" crib entertainment system and the tons of new rattles and chewies that he got for Christmas.

Stephanie was blessed with an ove-glove for all the cooking she's been doing as well as a new Neil Diamond CD (yes!!!) and the 10th season of Fraiser which means she now has the complete set of 11 seasons! Woo Hoo!

Ben received a new ring as well as tickets to an upcoming Chinese New Year Celebration in January.

For Christmas dinner we ordered a ridiculous amount of chinese food which Jackson enjoyed while Jacob took a bottle followed by carrots. The evening ended with Shrek 2 from Nana in Florida (thank you, Jackson loves it!)

The pictures above are just a few teasers - feel free to visit http://picasaweb.google.com/Stephanie.M.Richards/Christmas2008 to check out the whole set.

Merry Christmas all!

Cousin Olin Thomas!

The boys are getting a new cousin - a baby boy cousin!

Congratulations Brian and Katy! We love you!

It's begining to look alot like Christmas

It's snowing! I mean, it's really snowing!

We took Jacob out in the snow for the first time today (and yes, that is a Huskies outfit!) and this is the second time Jack has seen snow. The boys had such a good time and we took too many pictures to post on our blog so feel free to click on this link to see more... www.picasaweb.google.com/stephanie.m.richards and select December 2008.

There are a few teaser shots above...

Happy days!

Stephanie

December pics of boys

Just a few pics of my growing boys!

Elmo Live!

Jackson's grandma and I took Jack to Elmo Live in Eugene this weekend. Jackson had so much fun! I was sure that his favorite character was going to be Elmo but it turned out that The Count was his favorite! Ever time Count came on stage Jackson would clap and start saying "ha ha ha" just like the count!

We also stayed at the Hilton Hotel downtown and Jack loves hotels! He had so much fun in the pool, the elevator and in the workout room where they had giant balls for him to play with. Above are a couple of pics from this weekend.