Just one more month and my sweet baby with be 2!  It’s so hard to believe.  We’ve just been laying low this month after all of the holiday craziness.  Keegan continues to want to do everything himself.  No matter what we’re doing, he’s saying, “I do it!”  He’s talking SO much more and it’s fun to hear him saying new things and putting more words together.  He constantly keeps us laughing.  Just a few pictures from this month…

Enjoying some time outside…

Giving Bullseye a ride on the tricycle…

Loving picking out his own clothes and wearing Cohen’s shoes…

I always look forward to Christmas, but this year was extra special.  For the first time in the 11 years that we have been married we were at our house on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with just our family.  We started our festivities on Christmas Eve with an early dinner with some of our dearest friends.  Christy and I whipped up an awesome dinner complete with ham, cherry sauce, mashed potatoes, mac & cheese, bacon wrapped green beans and rolls.  It was delicious!

The kids table.  They were so cute…

After dinner we stopped by Starbucks to pick up some drinks and headed home to open our Christmas Eve gifts.  Cohen was super excited when he opened his (although I’m not sure he really knew what it was at this point in time).

We all had fun drinking with our crazy straws!

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If you have yet to discover Pinterest, please do so as soon as you have finished reading this post.  Your house, your wardrobe, your kids, (maybe not so much your spouse), your recipe collection and your creative side will thank you.  Seriously, it is AWESOME!  So, to get you pinterested (ha, get it!?!), I thought I’d share some of the Pinterest things that I did this Christmas.

First I created this living advent calendar after seeing this one on Pinterest.  We had a stocking for each day leading up to Christmas Day with a piece of paper inside that had a different activity for us to do each day.  It was so fun!!

I have been searching and searching for socking holders that would hold photos, but not cost me a fortune.  I saw these on pinterest and LOVED them.  With the help of my wonderful hubby, we made these stocking holders for less than what one would’ve cost had we bought them.

I saw these cookies on Pinterest and decided to make them for a cookie exchange party I went to.

I saw this unique way of displaying Christmas cards and did it with mine as well.

When I saw this sandwich I knew I had to make it for the boys.  They loved it!

And although, this next idea didn’t exactly come from Pinterest, I did make these and thought I’d show them off anyway…

And last, but certainly not least, I saw a friend make these and knew I had to make some for Christmas gifts…

So, as you can see, Pinterest certainly inspired me this Christmas season.  You should go get inspired yourself!  You’ll thank me later!

We’ve had lots of fun this month as we so patiently waited for Christmas to get here.  Cohen especially has really be into counting the days until Christmas.  We mark off the days on his calendar every night before bed.  We also have three other “countdowns” we’ve been using.  The first thing we did every morning was turn this little ornament my mom gave us last year which tells a portion of the story of the birth of Jesus each day…

Next we head to this advent calendar that Christian’s mom made us this year that is a replica of one they had when Christian was growing up.  Each day we put a new ornament on the tree and there is a little paper that goes with it telling how the ornament relates to Jesus and there are scriptures to read each day…

Finally, we went to the living advent calendar that I made us this year that had something for us to do each day.  There was one stocking for each day in December with a little paper inside telling us what our activity was going to be for the day.  Some things were simple and some were more involved, but it was so fun!

I’m sure we’ll do them all again next year along with the Elf on a Shelf.  I’ve been seeing so many of your cute posts about things your elves have done…we’ll get in on that action next year! Read more »

Hard to believe Keegan is almost 2!  He’s becoming very independent…one of his favorite things to say right now is, “I do it!”  He’s also very curious and interested in what we are doing…he’s always asking, “Doing, mommy/daddy?”  So cute.  He loves preschool and Mrs. Denise, his teacher.  Here are some cute pictures from the past month…

He loves playing trains…

He loves putting on Cohen’s shoes.  As soon as they come off Cohen’s feet, they are going onto Keegan’s…

Some cute smiles in front of our tree…

Santa baby…

Happy 22 months, Keegan!  I love you!