New Years Eve!

Happy New Years Eve!  We are ringing in the New Year in Marion with our friends Kirk & Tiffany.  2011 was a great year and we are looking forward to what 2012 has in store.

Our attempt at a family photo!

 

Merry Christmas 2011!

Our holiday celebration continued for a day of fun, love and  family in Marion!  We had a wonderful morning & it was so much fun seeing the boys open presents from Santa.

Merry Christmas!

Hmmm...what is this?

Keegan opening his stocking.

Charlie found his stickers! 

Slide show with more pics from Christmas Day 2011 

Christmas Morning

Race Cars from Santa

Are there Cars in here?

I want to get another one

Christmas Eve 2011!

We had a wonderful time celebrating with family in Mount Vernon.  Keegan & Charlie have made this holiday even more special - everything is so exciting through their eyes!  We love them so much & blessed to have them in our lives!

Christmas Eve morning, Charlie & Keegan getting ready to spread reindeer food on the lawn before.

 Cousins!  Audrey, Abby & Carter hanging out at NaNa's house in Mt. Vernon.

 Mommy & Keegan's self portrait!

Presents!

Trains!  Charlie & Keegan will have hours of fun.  Uncle Shawn was very exicted to delivery the present & Dan cannot wait to start picking up the peices!

  Stocking were hung by the chimney with care...

Our tree after Santa arrived!

Slide show of more pics from Christmas Eve

Cookies for Santa!

Of course we have to bake cookies to leave for Santa!  The boys patiently awaiting the cookies to finish cooling and Daddy trying to keep fingers out of the frosting.

SANTA!!

We took the boys to see Santa & they loved it. They were very patient in line practicing what they were going to tell him. However, once we were up there - silence but at least there was no crying!

Keegan waiting patiently.

 Charlie asking for an update.

 Finally...Santa!

Annual Burch Christmas Party!

Even though the Burchs' moved into a new house right before Thanksgiving, Marci could not resist having their annual party.  The house was beautiful & it was so nice to see all of our friends. 

While Dan won yoga classes fro his white elephant gift, he could not resist trying on my white elephant gift.  He looks hot & yes ladies he is taken :)  

Christmas Program!

Keegan & Charlie had their first Christmas program with the preschool class.  We are so grateful that Great Uncle Bob, Nana Pickett & Nana Evert were able to join us.

K & C practiced all the time & Keegan loves to sing in his "monster" voice to Jingle Bells! As predicted, Keegan sang his heart out & Charlie bolted to sit with mommy after the first song!

Keegan "singing" Rudolph

Gingerbread Houses!

We had a great time at the Annual Whitaker Gingerbread house party!  Since Dan was golfing, construction was left to mommy and decorating to the boys - not too shabby!

Keegan's cape cod replica.

 Charlie's Christmas cabin

Forts, Cookies and Christmas Tree Fun!

Dan was away for six long days on a golf trip.  We had both Nana's stay to help and were so happy to have him back home.  To pass the time while daddy was gone, the boys built forts...

 

Made cookies with Nana...

 and "looked" at the Christmas tree!



Christmas Count Down!

This year has been so much fun with the boys and we have been able to carry-on a few family traditions.  This is my Christmas count down from when I was little with fossilized candy cane to prove it!  We will see how it goes & I hope there is not a daily fight over who gets which sucker!

Zoolights!

We had perfect weather and great family to share Zoolights with this year.  The Carpneters, Bob, Herb & NaNa joined as well as most of the state of Ohio!

Annual family photo in front of the tree!

 Photo with Jack Hanna & gulp a polar bear!!

 Carson & Keegan exhausted!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We have a lot to be thankful for this year!  Everyone is health, happy and ornerier than ever. We celebrated Thanksgiving lunch in Marion with NaNa Pickett and the Pettetts.

After a fun-filled morning, we drove to Mt. Vernon for dinner with NaNa Evert, Carpenters and the Everts!

 Keegan resting up for round 2!

 Round 2!



Decorating with Toddlers!

I was lucky enough to have a few days off to decorate & have fun with bubbas!  They bring a whole new element to decorating but in the end were great helpers!

Charlie & his friend the reindeer!

 Charlie, "I promise I am not touching it mom! I promise." 

 Devising their next scheme of "I am not touching it, mom"

Dance Audrey Dance!

My niece Audrey is in travelling cheer competition team.  It was very fun to watch her and all the fan fare surrounding the event.  She did great & her back handspring was awesome!  Her yellow badge of courage was a marker to watch her for the highest jump award!

 Audrey is the "base" on the left even though they wnat her to be a flyer - she has no interest - lol!

Turkey Crafts!

We had quite an adventure using craft glue but the final product looks good.

 Modelling turkey hats made at library storytime and of course their turkeys!

Trick or Treat!

This was the boys second year to go out and get goodies for Mommy and Daddy.  Cousins, Ninja Cooper and recently released Carter Sizemore, came along for some good grub. 

Keegan is a big fan of the movie Rio.  Absolutely loves Blue, so when we found a costume that looked similar to Blue, it was a must have. 

Is that Charlie or his alias Spot?  Charlie loves going around the house pretending to be a dog named Spot, hence his chossen costume. 

 Blue spreading his wings telling everyone he wants to go "that way!!!"

Spot with the biggest smile because of all the candy he accumulated.  Little does he know, he won't be getting that much of it.

Ninja Cooper holds up his sword telling people to back off, its his candy and you don't wanna make a ninja angry.

 Blue and Spot down the home stretch with buckets full of yummy candy.  They had such a great time trick or treating.  Mommy and Daddy were very proud of their two boys as they were very polite.

The boys were so into the trick or treating that they didn't want the night to end, so we handed out candy to other goblins in the neighborhood.

Preschool Snack Day!

Charlie's first preschool snack day was a success with Mummy juice boxes and Halloween snacks!  Only to find out...Keegan's day was the very next week.

Over the weekend, we now have turkey juice boxes!