Santa is the BEST!

It was a great christmas, we enjoyed spending time with family, we had a lot of people come in to visit and it was so much fun. Quick story Santa (my brother Abe) came to visit the kids at the Christmas Eve Party and the kids took turns sitting on his lap telling him what they wanted for Christmas and then he would give them a small gift. Well Landen was one of the first ones to go and he asked for racing cars (which is all he asked for everytime he saw santa) and then he took his little gift from santa and went and sat with wayne's mom. He opened the little gift and it was a book, he flipped through it quickly and then handed it to Marsha and said "I don't want this, it is not what i asked for!" Normally i would be worried that my kid was becoming entitled, but isn't that what we teach our kids, that santa will bring us what we ask for if we are good, so i guess i had it coming.


Anyways santa was so good this year, Landen got his racing cars, and carson was happy with what he got, of course he would have been happy with anything. I definitely think that the mini air hockey table wins for best present!!! The boys are so cute playing this game, i can't believe that carson totally knows how to play!!! They have been playing this for days, and i have to admit wayne, my brothers, and i have taken our turns too!!

Family Prayers

okay so the other nite we were saying prayers and landen wanted wayne to help him and for whatever reason wayne was telling him the things we were thankful for and
started to include characters from a book and it went something like this:
Wayne- we are thankful for our home
Landen- repeat
Wayne- our family
(repeat)
Wayne- For Christmas
(repeat)
Wayne- We are thankful for baby Jesus, and small one (the donkey in the story that carried mary to bethlehem)
Landen- Repeat, (then adds) THE END

and then landen gets up like the prayer is over, it was hard not to laugh!!

dedicated to isaac

My brother Isaac has this great idea that his nephews should call him batman! so back in august at noel's birthday party he started telling landen that he was batman. and at first landen was a little confused because i was telling him to call isaac uncle zac, and then isaac was saying he was batman, and somehow in all of that landen started calling him daniel. i know, i don't get it either. so then at thanksgiving isaac was back to his old tricks and convinced landen to call him batman. So yesterday my aunt nancy came over and asked how isaac and cindy were and landen came up and corrected her and told her his name was batman!! and then this morning at breakfast out of no where landen starts teaching carson how to say batman!! so i grabbed my camera...isaac this is for you!!!

kids say the darnedest things!

So yesterday after church we came home and wayne made breakfast for lunch (our little tradition) and he calls his grits the people's grits, for some lame reason, but they are definitely good, he puts butter, salt, and cheese in them, and i usually just do a little bit of salt in mine. So we are sitting down eating and landen is like "we are having grits" and i was like yes we are, then the looks and me and says "i'm never going back to yours!!" Wayne and i busted out laughing, it was so funny!! seriously though, i don't blame landen. grits are not my best dish!