Christmas Fun Part 1

Christmas seems to be really drawn out for us. I think that having the twins birthday at the beginning of December makes it feel like a month long event. I am not complaining, really, I am not but it makes it hard after the Christmas festivities are over because the babies keep asking for "pwesents". Spoiled little pumpkins...along with the "terrible twos" syndrome that my children wasted no time embracing. Anyway, my Aunt Judy and cousin Teresa sent Christmas gifts for all of us with my dad and we spent one evening opening all of them. The kids had so much fun. They kept saying "ooo" and when asked if they wanted to open another present Elizabeth would say"yeah okay". Thank you guys again for everything. Here are some pictures of all the fun.

Elijah opening his first present and saying "ooo" as he looked in the bag.

Aunt Judy got each of them a cup with their name on it and both of them loved pretending to drink from them. Those cups are just so darn cute.

Aunt Judy made them little stockings and Elizabeth wanted to put hers on the bears foot.

Elijah only wanted "PaPa" to help him open his presents. It was really cute and my dad did not seem to mind at all.

He sat there forever looking through his coloring books.

I know that this picture is not very good but it was so cute of her giving her bear "woofs" (kisses)as she calls them.

Thank you again guys. We love you.

Christmas Tree Oh Christmas Tree

The Perkowski boys went to Cedar City this weekend to cut down a Christmas tree. It is their tradition and I know that they always have alot of fun doing it. Here are some pictures of their adventure. The sun was in their eys but I loved this picture of all of them. Jordan making a snow ball.
And there it is. The perfect tree. I love the decoration and lights on the house too.

Christmas Tag

I loved this idea about Christmas ornament tagging but this year we had to get a very small tree because we just do not have any room for a normal size tree. So I thought that I would expand with ornament tag to a decoration tag as well. Here are a few pictures of some ornaments and decorations that have alot of meaning to us. My mom bought this ornament for me the first Christmas that I moved into my own apartment. It is so her style which makes me love it that much more.

Jeremy and I made these at a pottery painting place when we were still pregnant. We wanted their first Christmas ornaments to have a personal touch.

The twins Christmas stocking.

My mom loved advent calenders and she would always put one up for me with candy and on special days there would be a piece of paper with a note saying that I had a present to open. This year we bought one for the twins so that I can keep that tradition going.

Last but not least, this is a snow globe that the Perkowski's got Jeremy and I the very first Christmas we were together. It is beautiful and the babies love to hear the music and watch the "snow" fall.

Well, there you go! We are tagging Mom, the McPherson's, and Jamie and Carly.

Happy Birthday Twins!!!

Today our sweet little angels are 2 years old. It has been an amazing 2 years. Mom and I were talking on Saturday about how much they have been through and how far they have come. Looking at them now, I sometimes "forget" how difficult the first months of their lives were but God has truly blessed us with these two beautiful and healthy babies!

On Saturday we had a party for them at Shawn and Chelsea's house. We all had such a great time and we really appreciate Shawn and Chelsea allowing us to use their home. Elijah got a bunch of cars which are his favorite things in the whole world right now and Elizabeth got a ton of babies which is her favorite thing. They also got a sit-n-spin from the Mann's and a ton of books! Daddy and Mommy got them a kitchen that is by far the coolest thing I have ever seen. Mom made the cakes and as always, they were amazing in both taste and design. Thank you everyone for coming and all of the help to make their day so special and fun. Here are some pictures.

Here they are playing in their kitchen for the first time.

Elizabeth making some peas. The burner makes a boiling noise when you put a pot on it and a sizzling noise when you put a frying pan on. They love that part.

This is not the best picture of Elijah that I have ever taken but I thought it was so cute because he is concentrating so hard on making that pepper grinder work.

One of my new favorite pictures. I think Elijah hates the flash or something because 90% of the pictures that I take of him, he ends up with that same look on his face.

So stinkin cute.

Chelsea took alot of the pictures for us which we really appreciate but for some reason when I try and post any of the pictures that came from her camera it gives me an error message. So when we figure out the problem (which I know is something that I am not doing correctly) I will post the pictures of the cakes and of the twins opening presents. But for now I think this should suffice.