Adventures with Little Monsters

We had a wonderful Christmas. We hung around the house all day in our pajamas and played with toys. The boys were so well behaved this year. Apparently old enough that the excitement didn't turn them into raging monsters. What a relief from previous Christmases. Thought I'd share a few pictures so that you could see a bit of our day.

Here are pics of everyone's special Christmas pajamas.

Thayne's say, "One tough cookie" (Gingerbread that is):

Braedn has pirate skull pants with Santa hats on:

Here's mine - something simple, Red with polka dots (and cleavage):

Chris's shirt says "Be naughty - save santa the trip" with the Grinch pj pants:

"Santa" brought the boys a train table. Definately Thayne's favorite gift - we couldn't keep him away from it. (Thank you for playing Santa Gramps, Grams and GG)

Here's a full pic of it:

Here's Braedn and Dad getting ready to dig into present opening. Braedn has definately reached the age when the most important part is actually opening gifts. It wasn't until all gifts were open that he actually went back to look at what he had got. It was like, "Cool! Where's the next one?"

He must have Taylor genes - the kid wears a bow every year (just like his Mom used to):

Here's Thayne playing with Braedn's Screaming Banshee (thank you Santa). Braedn also got his Rhino Rampage (thank you grandma and grandpa) so no disappointment on Christmas morning.

Thayne is a major sucker-o-holic. I have literally tons of pictures of him eating suckers. I think I've found his motivation for potty-training.

The boys really enjoyed all of their toys. Here they are wearing the beads that grandma and grandpa got them. We had to make several pictures with the lightbrite as well. The surprise hit was a game called hullabaloo. I'll upload some video of all of us playing it in a day or two. Hysterical.


Chris's presents weren't very thrilling this year, since they were all school oriented. I even hopped on the bandwagon and got him a backpack. Still he was very grateful for the gifts.

I got some wonderful gifts this year. My mom got me a couple of cookbooks and Tina and Jim got me a dutch oven. I think I'll be using both to make us some yummy dinners from now on. I also got some book and a CD that I've wanted. Chris was super nice and got me one of those massage pads for your chair. I like it so much that I practically fall asleep everytime I turn it on! I must admit my favorite gift was this one. I designed it, but Chris got it for me on Etsy.

Here's Thayne's part. The most refers to the period of time this year when he would tell us, "I love you more" in a really gravelly voice. We loved it.

This part speaks for itself:

Braedn's part has to do with a special book he likes. They are the pigeon books from Mo Willems. In one, the pigeon dreams that he goes to a hotdog party. Also Braedn likes the book where the little rabbit says, "I love you to the moon". So he's put them together and tells us that he loves us to the hotdog party.

I'll upload a bit of video either here or on You-Tube so that you can see some of the hysterics.

Hope your holiday was as joyous as ours was.

Love you all,

Kary