New Year's Eve

We had a great time celebrating the new year.  We started off with some yummy Chinese food and then Daddy introduced them to "Nacho Libre."  They thought it was hilarious, of course.  Every half hour, we would pause the movie and the boys would open a surprise bag with something to help them celebrate the new year...glowsticks, treats, noisemakers, and finally, Sparklers!  They loved it and were very excited to celebrate at "midnight," which was really 8:00.  :)  After we lit Sparklers, toasted with Martinellis, and made lots of noise, the boys were off to bed.  Then Derek and I got all dressed up and ready for a New Year's Eve party at our friends' house.  It was a "Decade Party," so we celebrated 80's style.  :)

It was such a fun night for all of us.

Here's to 2013...it's going to be another great year!

Here are the pictures of our FUN:

 

 

 

 

Even Carter got in on the action!  :)

My handsome New Year's Eve dates.
I'm a lucky girl!

 

 

 

Here's the photographic evidence of our embarrassing outfits.
We look ridiculous, but we had tons of fun!

Carter's First Taste of Food

You wouldn't guess that Carter isn't a big eater, but it's true.  He loves nursing, but is not such a big fan of baby food.  We first tried to feed him at 4 months, but since he didn't go for it, we waited until he was 6 months old to really start feeding him baby food.

Here's what his first couple bites of rice cereal looked like:

All smiles!

First bite.  And not so sure about this...

Not a fan...

Eww...you want me to eat more of that?!

 I love his expression in these pictures!
Such a cute little, disgusted face.  :) 

Christmas 2012

PLAYING CATCH-UP...

We had a great Christmas this year.  Every year seems to be more and more fun with these boys.  We spent Christmas Eve at Grandma and Grandpa Allen's house with lots of cousins, food, and fun traditions.  Then we headed home to wait for Santa's visit to our house.  Isaac and Trevor were excited about every single thing.  Little Carter just sat back and took it all in.  :) 

Our little family
Isaac - 6 years old
Trevor - 4.5 years old
Carter - 4 months old

The awesome boys' table  :)

Sweet Carter's 1st Christmas

Big smiles!

Grandma's traditional gift exchange

Jammies for all the grandkids

The Allen grandkids...so many fun cousins!

Back home to get ready for Santa!

Can't you just feel the excitement?!  :) 

Christmas morning

Checking out the loot  :)

They got just what they wanted...
Trevor with his "Daddy-size basketball"
Isaac with his "Cardinals football"

My handsome guys

Lots of gifts to open

Carter's first Christmas present
(And Trevor was pretty excited about it!)

Hugs for Daddy after he opened his "Hulk" movie.

Mommy and her boys

We love the Christmas season!
We have so much to be grateful for.

Say "Cheese!"

Since we added a third little man to our pack, it was time to get new pictures again.  Thanks to my very talented sister-in-law, Jenna, for taking these adorable pictures of the boys.  I love how she captured each of their little personalities so well!

 

 

 

 

 

Isaac
6 years old

 

 

Trevor
4.5 years old

 

 

Carter
2.5 months old

Such handsome little guys.  :)

Zoo Lights

We took our boys to see the Zoo Lights at the Phoenix Zoo.  It was a really fun night, especially because we were able to meet up with Scott and Jenna and their cute kids.

All bundled up and ready to see some lights!

Sweet cousins :)

 

Love the face that my handsome brother is making here!  Ha ha!

Uncle Scott and the kids hanging out with the "talking giraffe"

It's so fun to make memories like these with our cute cousins.

Christmas Concert

Isaac had his first ever school concert in December.  He was very excited about it and it was so fun to watch him perform!  They sang a couple of Christmas songs, including "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth."  It was pretty adorable.  :)

Waiting for the show to start

Look how excited he looks!  :)

 

 

 

Great job, Isaac!
You're our little superstar.  :) 

Little Buddies

My sister, Corinne, and I have had each of our babies within months of each other.  It's been fun for our boys to have cousins so close to their ages.  Our older boys are best friends with each other and they are so excited that Carter has a "best buddy" too!  :) 

Here are a couple pictures that she took of the newest little boys:

Ryan-8 months
Carter-3.5 months 

Sweet Ryan giving Carter "loves!"  :)