Christmas 2010!!!

This Christmas was great! It was Vander's 2nd and Danielle's very 1st!!!

Christmas is TOTALLY more fun when you have kids! It makes it even more special! It's so fun to watch their little faces open their presents!

So without saying more enjoy our Christmas 2010!!!

I very much enjoy dressing my kids up for each festive Holiday!

It makes it so fun! I even had my mom make Danielle's hair bow to match Vander's sweater!

Thanks mom!

Above was Vander's very FIRST snowball! And it started from here!

Ok so I had to put these pics at the beginning! Vander has been introduced to snow this year! And something daddy showed him is you can eat the snow! He actually ASKS for snow which he calls "no!" He will go to the door and pull on the handle and say no! HAHA it's so cute! So Keith or I will go out with a bowl and scoop it up! Of coarse we look for the cleanest snow;)

Yes this would be Vander eating a bowl of SNOW!!!

And it doesn't get much cuter than this!

Sharing a plate of snow with daddy!

Even runs his trucks through the snow! HAHA he is so darn cute!

He put the trucks like this on the snow purposely! lol!

My little Rudolph!

He did this himself! He was eating gummy bears and he stuck one, just happened to be red, to his little nose! perfect for the holiday I thought haha!

And.....he just left it there!

With papa Vanderwel

He's looking at it on his nose!

With papa Crocker!

I love how he's touching his little Rudolph nose!

For not seeing his papa Crocker that often, Vander sure does love him! He will go right to him!

He remembers!

Ok so last Christmas season we went to the Polar express in Heber! So neat! well for Christmas grandma and papa Crocker got the grandkids a Polar Express Golden Ticket! Papa drilled a little hole on each one so we could hang it on our tree!We got them after Christmas so we didn't have them on our tree last year! But it was perfect cause Vander got to hang his golden ticket on the tree this year! It was very special!

Hanging it on the tree!

Thank you papa and grammy!

This was a little gift for Danielle from daddy!

We got a first Christmas ornament for Vander last year!

Very fun and memorable to do:)

I made our stockings for Christmas this year with all our names! Well I didn't actually make the stockings! I bought and decorated them with our names and all the other little things! I really wanted to make them but I do not own a sewing machine and I live far from my mom!

I had such a fun time doing it though!

Christmas Eve!!!

Brother and sister got Christmas jammies and antlers from grammy and papa!

They looked very adorable and festive in both!

Thank you!

This picture of Danielle just makes us giggle!

We decorated a ginger bread house! It was so fun!

Something I will want to do every Christmas:)

At first when Keith was setting it up, Vander was trying to eat it! lol!

Vander was very good at putting the little candies on it! He also ate his share as well!

It was funny cause there were times he would go to put it on the house and then pop it in his mouth real fast!

Sister wanted to be a part of it to!

After he was done he stood up and yelled TA DA! LOL!

Danielle managed to get a gum drop in her hand that I didn't see!

Sneaky sneaky!

HAHAHA!

Vander went and got one of his cars to put inside the ginger bread house!

Christmas Day!!!

This was so exciting for us cause it was the first year that vander was now big enough to run out and see his presents from SANTA!!!!

Santa brought buddy a ball pit!

 He knows how much buddy LOVES balls!!!!

He LOOOOOOVED it!!!!

He thought it was so neat when mommy got in there with him!

BTW best present EVER!!! He LOVES it!

He drug his ball pit over by himself!

As soon as he gave the ball pit arest for a bit he finally went and saw all his other presents!

Little petey was all into the Christmas spirit!

Buddy got soooooooo many little cars and trucks!

Some were from mommy and daddy to:)

He is sitting in his little recliner from Santa! Which he loves!

 He always watches his little shows in it!

And we really were handing him his presents and he just sat in his chair and opened them!

Haha love his little face! He has half his cars!

Just getting comfy!

He got two cases for his trucks and cars!

And a BIG tiger for him to sit on!

It's so cute to hear him say tiger!

I had to get a shot from behind to see her little bear bum:)

He does a really good job at opening presents!

More trucks!

It was so cute watching him pull stuff out of his stocking!

Now little princess head gets to open a special present!

She really did rip it open!

She got a pretty pearl bracelet from daddy for when she is a little bigger!

And she was getting stuff out of her stocking to!

She got some pretty bracelets that mommy made her to wear for Christmas!

Putting all his trucks in his new case! He brings these to us all the time for us to open!

He loves his cars and trucks!

Danielle is openeing another present from mommy and daddy!

A baby and a baby giraffe

Sissy wanted to join in on the fun in the balls to!

Christmas Evening!!!

My parents have all of us come over on Christmas night to exchange gifts! A very fun tradition

And I made a yummy chocolate strawberry banana dessert! It tastes like a little bit of chocolate heaven! So YUMMY!

Of course buddy went right for the train!

All the cousins exchange gifts as well!

Danielle is opening her gift from cousin Mandi!

I had to throw this pic in cause I thought it was cute

how brother is watching to see what his sister gets!

She got jammies and a little glow baby! Btw, Vander LOVES Danielle's babies! He holds them like a baby! It's so sweet! He is so nurturing:)

Now Vander gets to open his gift from cousin Bryson!

And his favorite, CARS!!!

Me with Snicky poo!

 I love my little doggies! Harley ran off somewhere! she choses to stay away with large groups of people around!

I threw this one in cause I thought buddy's face was cute! 

Not sure what he's pointing at though!

HAHAHA! My sister put Vander's new cars in his pockets and he thought it was so cool! He just left them there to!

Look at how he is standing! He's like, yeah I know I'm cool!

With my papa!

Danielle was so exhausted from all the holiday excitement!

And so was Snickers! lol!

In this pic Vander was telling papa to come as he does it with his little fingers!

It's so cute!

The ring my dad was wearing his brother gave him years ago! I remember that amythest ring when I was little! Amythest is his birth stone! Well it got to small and they actually had to cut it off his finger! So my mom got it fixed so he could wear it once again! I thought it was such a neat gift! And she got a pretty diamond necklace from my dad!

One of the gifts we got my dad was Nacho Libre! LOL! He loves that movie!

with cousin Brielle and Mandi!

Every year my sis Charonne gets all us girls scarves for Christmas and we always get a group picture! These are my faves so far! Thanks Ronnie!

Princess woke back up to get one more present from mommy and daddy that my sis had! A pretty tealight holder crown for our little princess's room! She was so happy! lol!

playing with my cars!

Love this with her papa

Ok so I will explain these next photos. This little Christmas carousel Vander is playing with I thought was so cute and special! Cause the pics below are him last Christmas when he was 7 months old playing with it! I thought it was just so sweet!

And now little sister is playing with it to!

Visiting my twin cousins!

Oh how I LOVE this picture! look at them both! HER head is tilted just perfect  like come and get it! Like in the movies! And HIS head is going right in for it!

Oh it makes my heart melt everytime I look at it!

We all get to eat our own little cup of Pringles that aunt Truly gave us!

Another cute pic!

I believe they are watching Frosty the Snowman!!!

HAHAHA! A little tea party! They ALL have their own little teacups!

And Lindz and Vander are still sharing a chair!

Yummy yummy pizza!

Oh I just LOVE these next pictures as well! I LOVE watching my two little babes play with eachother!

It pulls my heart strings in a very good way!

And Giving sister kisses to!

Danielle is holding a little ornament form grammy and papa Crocker! It's a baby's first Christmas ornament! It's a little baby bootie with Danielle's name and birthday engraved on the bottom!

I love sentimental gifts so much! Thank you!

With my buddy!

With my little Pete!

Christmas 2010 was so much fun!

We look so much forward to Christmas 2011!

Thanksgiving 2010!

I didn't want to leave out thanksgiving! So I just threw it on this post!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving! This picture above was actually used on our Christmas cards!

Me and my honey!

All the grandkids! HAHA I love Vander's little head poking up in the back!

One more so Brielle could be in it!

Cousin Mandi LOVES holding Danielle! She is so good at it!

The fish pond is a family tradition since I was a very little girl and we STILL do it every Thanksgiving! It's so fun to have my babies a part of it now! Basically you fish for prizes!

Had to get a picture with grandma! I did this to cause Grandma made Danielle's hair bow and little shirt pin to go with it! I wanted it to match buddy's sweater and she did a PERFECT job! Danielle has many other pretty bows and flowers for her hair from grandma!

Thanks grandma Joanie for making me such pretty pretties:)

Yeah we tried to get pics of the two together! Wasn't happening!

 But they are just cute and fun!

And Vander was LOVING it! LOL!

LOVE these two pictures of my babes!

 We also used these on our Christmas card!

I love my family so much!

 They make the holidays that much more special and memorable

Thankyou for sharing in our fun fun Holiday!