We're Back!

We're back from our Christmas hiatus, so let the blogging begin...

Before leaving for Christmas in San Jose, we celebrated Christmas with my (Amanda) parents, my sister, and both sides of grandparents. We devoured a traditional New Mexican Christmas feast of posole, tamales, and biscochitos, and then attended to all of the gifts under the tree. Okay, so there wasn't a tree, but there were plenty of gifts! As you can see, we did a horrible job of taking pictures...lesson learned...

Hey, Sissy, check out all of those gifts behind us! We must be pretty special!

Snuggle time with Great-Grandma Padilla

Papi is such a poser, and what a surprise...Joshua got trucks!

Posole, tamales (not pictured), and biscochitos...the ultimate Christmas food!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from our family to yours. We pray the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ, would be remembered and celebrated today and in days to come!

Roooaaarrrrr!!!

Some friends gave Joshua their son's old dinosaur costume. We put it on him, and he walked around the house going, "Rooooaaarrr!!!" I love that when I take pictures of him now, he actually smiles, and says, "Cheese!"

Nooo

This is how Makayla reacts every time we say, "No."

More Cookie Fun

We invited the Weir clan over today for some sugar cookie decorating madness. I wasn't quite sure how it would go with two toddlers and two babies, but Amy and I were both up for the challenge at hand. The mamas had high hopes of seeing our kiddos carefully decorate the snowmen with eyes and buttons, and dash an occasional sprinkle here and there. Who were we kidding?! A more accurate description of the decorating goes a little something like this... Mommy would put an M&M on Joshua's snowman, and he would quickly pick it off and gobble it up. Soon, thereafter, the entire cookie was in his mouth. Meanwhile, Audrey had fun licking all of the frosting off of the snowman, until you could only see the white cookie. So much for decorating. Seriously, though, it was a great time with friends, and hopefully the kiddos had a wonderful time too. I'm thinking they did in fact have a great time as both (mostly Joshua) were on a serious sugar-high soon after. What a great morning! Now, if you will excuse me, my kids need a bath : )

Me Want Cookie

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Joshua and Makayla want to wish their daddy a happy birthday before they head to bed...

Thank you for playing with us, for reading to us, for giving us raspberries on our stomachs, for singing to us, and making us laugh. We love you, Daddy!

This morning we celebrated with some maple-bacon donut yumminess. Love you, Babe!