Christmas 2010

I thought I'd get one more blog post in before Campbell makes her arrival! This is a recap of Christmas 2010! Being on bedrest, everyone came to us for Christmas this year. We started out on the 23rd with just the 4 of us opening our presents with each other before everyone else arrived.
Here is Cohen and Channing eagerly awaiting Daddy to pass out their presents.
Here's Channing getting down to business on her first gift.

This was Cohen's favorite gift of the season (and the cheapest, I might add. Doesn't it always work out that way?) A new basketball!

Luckily I had people taking pictures for me throughout the holidays, or I don't think I would have a single thing to put on this blog post!

Here we are making cookies to leave out for Santa.

Here's the final product, cookies and milk left on the fireplace.

Cohen wearing most of his gifts all at once, as he plays on his new Wii Rockband drumset. Channing is trying to help. Love the new Ughs, Tia!

As I said above, he decided to wear his new bicycle helmet, cowboy belt, and cowboy boots all at once!

Channing says, "oooo, is this one for me?"

Channing is trying to tackle Grammy!

The Lawson family came and spent Christmas Day with us, but I don't have any pictures from their time here. Carla or Kellie, can you guys send me some pics so I can put them up on the blog? Cohen had so much fun playing with Jake!

On Christmas night Sheila, Neal, Paige and Holt came over. Channing got a new rocking horse!

The cousins relaxing on the couch.

Paige walked around the house and got pictures of my Christmas decorations

The big tree downstairs.

The baby tree upstairs... with babygate included!

Cohen and Chad up in the playroom trying out the new Diego Wii game!

Sheila and Chandy posing for the camera.
Overall we had a wonderful Christmas! It's so nice to have such supportive family to help us out during this crazy time of bedrest, basketball season, and a 3 yr old and 1 yr old! Spending time with all our family was the best part!

Catch up time!

Oh goodness! I have some major catching up to do. Where to start??? Well, for one, I was put on "modified bedrest" about 3 weeks ago. I'm now 35 weeks and she's still holding strong. If I can make it 1 1/2 more weeks my Dr says he'll let me go back to my normal routine.

You would think with this modified bedrest that I would have plenty of blogging time. But I've actually been spending a lot of my down time getting ready for our Project Mom Spring Tour. If you're a mom (or even if you're not!) check it out, http://www.projmom.com/. We have 5 locations and dates in the Spring. We have a contest that just started last week called Post the Most, and we're giving away an Apple iPad! If you want an iPad, this is an easy way to get a free one!

The week of Thanksgiving the kids, me and their Nana went to get pictures taken with Santa. We also got a few pictures of me and the kids. You'll notice that Channing is pulling off her bow in both of these pictures. It drives me crazy! She won't keep one on for more than a minute.

We went up to my Meemaw's house on Thanksgiving. Cohen got some reading time with his big cousin Isaac.

Then we headed to Gainesville to spend time with the Lawsons. Here is Cohen, Channing, and Jake jumping on the trampoline with Nana.

Here is Cohen and Gavin. Gavin is Cohen's 2nd cousin, but you would think they are brothers!

Then, a couple of weeks ago Cohen had his Christmas program at school. Here he is with his class and his two great teachers, Mrs. Ann and Mrs. Stephanie.

A few days ago I realized that I have no pictures of this entire pregnancy. With Cohen I took weekly pictures of my progress. With Channing we took a picture at least every few weeks. But with Campbell I've been a total slacker. So Chad took a picture the other night before we headed out the door for my staff Christmas Party. This is 34 weeks.

My Big 3 year old!

Here are some pictures of Cohen over the past few weeks. When I see these, it makes me realize what a big boy he is becoming!
These pictures were from his end-of-season teeball party.
Yum cake!

I had been promising Cohen that we could make the turkey cookies that he saw on Nick Jr for days now. Chad has been out of town all week and my Dr. has told me to stay off my feet as much as possible (I'm 31 weeks), so it's been hard to find time. Finally on Friday, while Channing took her nap, we had some mommy and Cohen time. Here he is posing next to his freshly iced cookie. He said he wanted blue icing... I've never seen a blue turkey, but I just went with it.

I let him choose the toppings from the leftover Halloween candy in the pantry. Milkduds and M&Ms were the candy of choice!

Here he is about to take the first lick of his yummy creation.

"What are you laughing at, Mom?!?!"

Channing's 1st birthday party!

This weekend we had a small family party at our new house for Channing's first birthday. I have a video of her eating her cake that I will upload later. I love this video because it totally shows her personality. It's so amazing how two kids can be from the same family and be raised in the same environment and be so different! For Cohen's first birthday we had to put his hand in his cake and almost force him to try it. But not Channing... she's our wild woman! She went right after it!



Cohen came home from his teeball game just in time for the party!

Cleaning up afterward...

Happy Birthday sweet girl!!

Trick-or-Treat 2010

Here are a few photos from Sunday night. I tried to get a few pictures while the kids had on their "accessories" to their costumes because I knew they wouldn't stay on for long, and I was right. Soon after these pictures were taken hats, headbands, and wings began to be pulled off!

Cohen decided he wanted to be a pirate this year. complete with earings and an eye patch. However, when we attached the clip on earings to his ears he complained the whole time about them hurting so we decided to attach them to his eye patch...

Ok, here's a disclaimer about my little bumble bee... she had a little "spill" a few days ago. So please ignore the bruised forehead and the cut on her lip.

Sheila, Neal, and Paige came over to trick-or-treat with us. Here's our fairy and bumble bee!

Well, this might be the longest I've ever gone on a blogging sabbatical. Sorry about that! The only faithful readers that I probably still have out there are the grandparents.

I realized today that I never posted a picture of the first day of school. So, here is Cohen in his new classroom with his new backpack.
Cohen was invited to a pumpkin patch for his friend's birthday party. So we loaded up the whole family and went up to Celina. He LOVED it. The petting zoo is always a hit!

I really think he was trying to see how far he could get his hand down this goat's mouth!

For Channing, the highlight was wrestling with the pumpkins... or at least she tried to wrestle them.

I was able to get her to sit still on one of the pumpkins for about 1/2 a second... just long enough to get a picture.

Me and my 2 girls... the 2nd girl is hiding in my belly!

So, Cohen got a little carried away with the red frosting cupcakes!

Please don't judge me for Cohen's haircut... or lack thereof. We're trying to grow it out to see if we can get some blonde curls going. So far we just have a shag going on. If it doesn't start doing something soon, I'll have to cut it... don' think I can handle this for Christmas pictures!