Christmas- Part 1

My boys in their Christmas pj's a week or so before Christmas :)

Silly Corby!

Sweet Brycen

The 17th we went to Martinsville for my mom's mom's family Christmas.

The boys in their cute Christmas shirts :)

We had a small catastrophe on the way there. Corbin grabbed a hold of the bread pudding topping in a container and dumped it all over himself and the seat and my mom's purse... oh what a mess! The only extra outfit I had for him was the oldest sweatsuit we own, haha!

My cousin's little girl, Laila & Corbin

Ryan and I

My cousin's little boy Logan & Brycen

Our family with my mom's mom and stepdad

We were trying to get a picture of the great grandkids, but Corbin was NOT cooperating! lol

We weren't there too long so it was a long drive home b/c Corbin had a lot of energy! lol.

Family Party

We had family over Tuesday on Brycen's actual birthday for a family party. We had soups (Taco, Chili, and Veggie) and sandwiches and cupcakes. My mom's preacher's wife (got that?) made the cupcakes- they were AMAZING!

I hate that Brycen's closet door is standing open in this picture, but the kids were playing.

love this boy and his big beautiful smile!

can't believe he is seven.

B w/ his new guitar

cousin Brooke got him an under armour hoodie.

he thinks he's super cool now :)

that's what uncle joe wears, duhhh lol!
he got other gifts, but the kids were all running around and i didn't take time to move around and get a lot of pics

Corbin and Zane :)

hard to believe these two will be two soon (zane is three weeks to do the day older than corbin).

they play so well together!

I have to say I'm glad the birthday craziness is over!

I think I can rest and finish wrapping my gifts tonight and tomorrow night.

Then on to more Christmas gatherings and basketball Saturday & Sunday.

I'm such a homebody that this time of the year really challenges me to be intentional with our plans. I always resist going, but then normally have a good time once I'm there!

7th Bday-Carnival Party

Friday evening we had a Carnival Party for Brycen and Kennedy's 7th birthday's! We had pizza, chips, pop, and cake. I'm sure their parents were all loving us :) haha! We had some games set up for the kids and they had fun playing those, but I think they had as much fun chasing each other around being silly! All these pictures were taken by Erin's (Kennedy's mom) older sister Dana who takes picture. Her website is http://kalidphotography.zenfolio.com/. We were so thankful for her to take the pictures that night and we could focus on being just the moms running the party (ha, is that a joke or what- the kids always run the show!). :) We had so much fun. We decorated on Thurs. evening and then Erin and I went to Evansville to get the cakes from Steph on Friday afternoon- oh my what a fun hilarious afternoon. We laughed 'til we cried. Thankfully we made it home in time to party with our (almost) 7 yr olds! We had a little photo area with some funny face/hat props set up too. The kids wore the props around all nigh being silly!! Brycen wanted a Puma cake and KenKen had Hello Kitty.

B with a silly face:)
The birthday kids :)
B & KenKen

They are so fun!

Corbin had fun chasing after all the big kids and trying to play games too! :)

The Birthday girl table :)
The other girls are Chloe, Mabry, Reagan, and Quinlan

(There was another table of girls too)

The birthday boy table!

The other boys are Payton, Braden, Joey, Xavier, Nolan, and Alex.

)There was another boy table too)

B and Payton being silly

The difference between boys and girls was very apparent. The boys were so rowdy and wouldn't sit still and girls are sat sweetly and listened. lol!

B doing the Ping Pong toss!

Ring Toss :)

We also had Bean Bag Toss (to knock down cans), but I can't find a picture of it.

B & KenKen- Best Buddies :)
They also had a wedding ceremony that night ;)

Her dad said he can only hope her wedding will be that cheap ;) lol

The Moms :)

Me and Erin

Or as our husbands called us (especially after our crazy afternoon) "The two Blondes!"

Before the egg race- he is such a goob :)

Their faces crack me up in this one!

B and KenKen racing!

Group Picture!

I love how these pictures capture both their big personalities!

He never fails to make us smile!

B with his Puma cake while everyone sang Happy Birthday :)

Brycen Hunter

Opening Gifts!

He got SpyWare Glasses!

He was saying "whoot whoot, Praise The Lord!"
I love that this comes so natural for him :)

It was a successful party! We were worn out, but had so much fun!! All the kids must of had fun b/c I've had quite a few parents tell me already this week that it is all their kids talked about all weekend :)

December Things :)

We have had a fun but busy month already (as I'm sure everyone has). I haven't done a very good job of documenting things w/ pictures either! The first Saturday of the month we had the Lengacher Family Christmas-- of course I forgot my camera. Just take my word for it- my boys looked cute ;) lol! They both had on dressy clothes and I just love dressing them up! haha!

The next day Brycen had his first basketball game of the season.

I'm not sure what he was doing here, but it's the only picture I took the whole game. Getting Corbin to sit still in the bleachers is quite a feat in itself! He was so timid this first game he wouldn't go after the ball or try to shoot when he had the ball. I guess he had the jitters :)

B playing w/ homemade play doh we made for birthday treat bags :) Him and Corbin both kept entertained for hours with it!

Ready to put in the treat bags :)

Playing army trucks is hard work- C fell asleep like this! When I went to pick him up there was a big puddle of drool! :) too funny!

These two are enjoying riding tractors and other ride on toys in the unfinished basement :)

Last week we were cleaning down there and they were having a lot of fun!

Saturday night we went pretty late to WalMart. I had to get ingredients for stuff for B's family party and I knew that was probably the only time I had to do it. BUT of course we had to watch the IU/UK game first! Ryan was so mad at me b/c my mom wanted to get us tickets for the game (my parents and my brother and a bunch of friends went), but when she ordered them I was planning on having B's friend party that night... we ended up having it Friday night instead so we could of gone. Ryan was so upset! lol We did miss a good one!

Anyway, after the game we went to WalMart. Corbin was zonked out afterward. He always sleeps w/ his hands like that- I think it's adorable!

Yesterday we had church and then got friend chicken and taters for lunch and then went to B's 2nd game of the season. This one went much better! He stole the ball quite a few times and shot a few times and made two baskets- he had four points :) Go B! It was good for his confidence and we were so proud of him for getting out of his comfort zone and being more aggressive!

He's number 4- he wants to tape a 0 beside the 4 so he can be the same number as Cody Z :)

His team name this year is IU- how fun!!

When we got home we let B open his presents from us so he could play with them yesterday- pictures of that to come :)