We had such a wonderful Christmas. Kyle was lucky enough to get a whole week off, so we decided to make a little vacation out of it. We started off in Vacaville, and then ended at the Ranch. We did lots of fun things during the week; shopping, train ride, ice skating, cousin Bennet's birthday party, hot tubs, hunting, a visit from Papa, quad rides, stomp through the mud, and of course play with all the new toys. Here's a few pictures from our adventures:

On Christmas Eve, Elio was trying to spot Santa.

I think he saw him!

Christmas morning smiles

Santa Came!

Nico and Auntie Raquel relaxing.

(Baby Nelepovitz is on his way, due this summer!)

Opening my Silhouette, one of my favorite gifts.

Everyone loved Elio's new Plasma Car 
(it holds up to 220lbs!)

We even had a chance to do a little Ice Skating.

Maybe Next year Nico

Kyle held Elio between his legs most of the time.

He did skate just holding onto one hand for a little while.

Oh, Kyle wants me to make sure everyone knows, they didn't wear ice skates, they wore hockey skates. They are much more manly.


Here's Nico trying to eat my face wash.

Cameryn and Elio at the Ranch. They were watching for their daddy's (and ducks) out the window.

Merry Christmas 
and 
Happy New Years
 
Here's a few pictures of the boys:

 Remember this cute picture of the boys?

It's been about 10 months, and look how much they've changed (they're growing so fast):

The last few weeks, we've been busy getting ready for Christmas and fighting off colds. Our house is definitely looking forward to Santa coming. We had Christmas with my family last weekend, and the boys had a blast. Elio is getting to the age where he kinda gets Christmas, and he loves opening presents. We just enjoy seeing them have so much fun!

The year is coming to an end and I'd say we've had a great year; Nico was born, we worked a lot on the house, we did a little bit of traveling, and so much more. It went by so fast though. We are looking forward to what next year brings us; a new cousin (Yay!!! Congrats Mike and Raquel), a trip to Disney World, hopefully a new deck, and who knows what else. I have a feeling it's going to be a great year!

Busy Bees

With Christmas approaching, there' have been a lot of fun activities around town.

On Saturday we started by going to see Santa at one of our local sandwich shops (we've been doing it since Elio was born). Elio sat on Santa's lap and told him want he wanted: a train car. Nico cried. Poor Nico, he was scared of Santa.

Then we went to the bizarre at the Presbyterian Church. Santa was hanging out there while we had some lunch. There weren't a ton of kids there, and we were sitting about 5 feet away from Santa. Elio was in heaven. He was chattin it up with him. He told him about his train car, sat on his lap several times. It was really cute, he was memorized by him. 

We went home tooks some naps, then that night we went downtown to the Guest House to see Santa again. Such lucky kids huh? Santa three times in one day! Oh, then to top it off, we went out to Chinese food and watched the lighted truck parade. I'd say it was a pretty fun day.

We also went to the Festival of Lights at the Botanical Gardens. It  was the first time the Botanical gardens has put on this event. If you've been to the botanical gardens you know how beautiful it is. Well it's amazing at night covered in lights. The kids had lots of fun. I think this might end up being a new family tradition for us.

Here's a few fun pictures from our adventures:

We went to cut down our Christmas tree this weekend.

 Elio had so much fun searching for the perfect tree.

 Kyle decided to bring his own saw this year.

 Elio helped put up the decorations and Nico helped take them down. Notice there aren't very many decorations on the bottom!

We are getting in the Christmas spirit around here, the house is decorated (inside) and we start the super cool advent calender I made tomorrow. 
Happy Holidays!

Oh Nico

I left Nico in the kitchen for a few seconds, I walked back to see this:

I guess he figured out how to climb up on the table.

How cute is this?

 Elio was in the kitchen playing with the fruit on the table, while I was in the dinning room talking to my dad on the phone. 

Elio comes out of the kitchen holding a bowl and it has a peeled and broken up tangerine in it. 

I knew I didn't peel it, but I didn't think he would know how. I went in the kitchen and there laid a pile of peels on the table.

I know it may not seem like a big deal to most people, but Kyle and I were impressed that he figured it out on his own.

It's a reminder that they watch everything we do,

these cuties are constantly amazing us!

Marisa and I took the boys in for their checkups last week.  Nico had his 9 month and Elio had his 2 1/2 year.

Nico:

He weighed in at 22 lbs 3 oz an was in the 75% for weight. For his length he is 31 inches. When the doctor was looking at the percentile he said "he's off the charts". He was also very impressed that he was walking already. Way to go Nico!

Elio

He weighed in at 31lbs and was in the 75 percentile for weight. He is 37 1/2 inches long and in the 90% for height. He thought Elio was doing good with his speech and said he was looking good too.

 I always enjoy going in for their checkups and seeing how much they've grown.

Nico sure is changing everyday, and it seems like there have been some big changes lately. He's walking more and more. He's starting to clap, and wave goodbye to people. He fed me one of his snacks today, I'm pretty sure he says Momma, and I swear he gave me a kiss the other day.

 The boys have been really in to taking bubble baths lately. Elio loves the bubbles, he gets them out of the cupboard and pours it in the tub. We've been going through bubble bath rather quickly lately.

 Oh, and I gave them haircuts! Nico's hair has been a challenge for me. When he was born it was all dark. Then he lost it on the middle back and sides of his head, which was fine...until it grew back blond. Then it just looked like he had a messed up haircut. I tried to give him a little fohawk but it still didn't look quite right. So out came the clippers. I took it pretty short, and the back looks much better. I couldn't believe how much it made him look more like Kyle. So cute! Well after Nico got his haircut, then Elio wanted his like that too. So there you go.