New Years at Sesame Street

For the second year we packed up and headed down to Sesame Place for New Years eve. This year we added to the fun by meeting up with some of Andrew's friends from school. It was MUCH colder this year but we still had a great time. The day included lunch with the characters, lots of rides and games, meeting the characters and having pictures taken and ended with the parade and fireworks. Best new year's eve yet!

Here is the full album from our day.

sesame new year 2012

Christmas 2012

As usual our holiday season was packed with visiting and fun. Dylan had a great first Christmas and thanks to Santa (and his partner Gaga) the futon has lost its home in the toy room to make room for all the boys new stuff! Andrew and Dylan were home from school through the new year and had a GREAT time testing out all of their toys.

 Here are a few pictures of our holidays, and the link to the full album at the bottom.

Here is the link to the complete album of the boys Christmas adventure.

Christmas 2012

Game time!

Christmas Pictures

We got back the third (and FINAL) set of school pictures for the 2012 school year. We now have the summer ones from July, the 'back to school' set from September and the new Christmas ones. These are definitely my least favorite of the bunch. Dylan's summer ones and Andrew's back to school ones are the best of the year by far but these were cute so I figured I would share. These were the outfits that I had intended for our christmas cards however by the time I got pictures that I liked it was the 4th or 5th photo shoot and I had given up on changing them first :-)

9 Months Old

Time just keeps FLYING by.  Dylan continues to be one happy  little guy.  Despite the wardrobe changes these pictures are all from today.. it was a three sweatshirt kind of day ;-)

Breakfast with Santa

Every year we head over to our favorite breakfast place to have breakfast with Santa. Since Andrew's first Christmas where I got a fantastic shot of him sitting with the big guy I have attempted to get another photo that would be worthy of the Christmas card and have generally failed. I incorrectly assumed that this year the difficult child would be Dylan since I figured 8 months old was just old enough to be very suspicious of Santa and not old enough to understand the upside to telling him what you want for Christmas. Turns out... Dylan has no issues at all with the bearded stranger in the red suit and was happy to sit with him  but his older brother wanted NOTHING to do with him. I managed to get him to sit there but there was NO smiling. He did tell him what he wanted for Christmas but only from a safe distance once he had gotten down.

So as I've said before... Maybe next year ;-)

"I will sit here but I will NOT smile"

"I told you I was NOT going to smile"

Dylan is trying to decide how he feels about this

Dylan has decided that Santa isn't so bad

Attempted to get a good picture of just Dylan and Santa....

Had to get Dylan away from him before he got a good grip on the beard!

Excited for Christmas!!