Sweet Boys

Our little boys have had a wonderful week.



Nash was looking uber cute. It's not that he doesn't always look cute, but he was looking really cute that day.



Nash's personality is so sweet. He is a very loving little boy. He is happy and makes us laugh so much.



Reed has started really wanting us to tell him that we are "so proud of him." So, now, when he does something really good, we say "Reed we're so proud of you." He immediately says "Not Nash?" So, we have to say, "Well, we're proud of you for doing a good job" instead of focusing on the "Not Nash?"



Nash loves his brother and does everything he does, so now, when we say "Nash, We're so proud of you." Nash says, "Not Reedy?"



Reed has also taught Nash a new phrase "You funny."



Nash will look at me and say, "You funny Daddy."



He is really starting to be a lot more verbal in his English. I am glad because I was a little worried for a while that Reed was talking too much for him.



Of course, Will has been very laid back, as usual.



He is such a happy little boy. His smiles are magical.



And as long as he is not hungry, he is very happy.



We have to watch him closely, because he seems to be very interested in eating paper!



This week was really slow in some ways and really fast in other ways.



Nash and Reed had a lot of fun playing the Wii and with their other Christmas toys.



I need to get some videos of Reed saying "The Lord's Prayer." It's amazing.



I also need to get videos of him playing the Wii. It's so funny. He loves the game "dueling" which he calls "sword fight" and he is so funny to watch.





Tomorrow night Uncle Bill has bought tickets for the boys to go to Monster Jam a Monster Truck competition. The boys are so excited.



Abbey and Will are going to hang out.





We are hoping that the boys are going to sleep in tomorrow morning as a gift to us.

New Year!

I really want to just post words tonight, but I know that some people just check the blog for the pics, so here's a slideshow of the boys playing the Wii.



2010 New Year Post: Not really about New Year's.


2009 New Year Post: Again, not about New Year.

2008 New Year Post: We actually post about New Year's and Reed, of course.


2007 New Year Post: New Year post recap, nothing about Reed (because we didn't know about him), but did mention getting the nursery ready.


2006 New Year Post: Random, back before I was a more regular blogger and before I realized using colorful fonts was annoying.

I didn't start the blog until July 2005, so didn't have a New Year post that year. Well, all of this traveling down memory lane was a blast, but that's not what I wanted to point out, every new year since 2007 has made some mention of children in our life.

In January of 2007, had we known how much our lives would change by the entrance of our precious first son Reed only 9 short months later. Life can certainly change quickly.

In January 2010, we had know idea how much richer our lives would become with the entrance of two more precious little boys only 9 short months later.

Our lives are full, our hearts are full, God has truly blessed us and will bless us in 2011.

Christmas at Lola and Pop's

After a very long trip from Jackson to Memphis, we finally arrived at Pop and Lola's house. The reason the trip was long was because we had several stops trying to figure out how to keep the monster truck which was on the roof of our van from rattling so loudly.



The presents were out and ready when we got here and Nash and Reed were ready, willing and able to open them.



First, they dumped their stockings out. They made quick work of them.



Lola knows that the boys love FLASHLIGHTS, so they both got new flashlights.



Will was just along for the ride as normal. He such a content little guy.



The boys were having lots of fun unwrapping presents. Just like at Enna and Poppy's house, Nash opened one present and was happy with what we he got. Reed was just throwing paper like crazy!



Nash was so funny. He was gathering up everything and holding it in his arms. It has to do with his early life, no doubt.



Will and Pop watched the silly boys open their presents.



Reed is so funny when he is opening presents.
I think that we could have wrapped 100 boxes and just left them empty and he would have had fun. He just liked to see the paper flying.



Will said maybe next year he would get excited about Christmas.



In one box, Reed had a tiger. It had underwear in the box, but Lola knew that it wouldn't appeal to him unless it had a tiger in it.



Probably the hit present for both boys, was the construction tools. The boys loved them.



Nash really loved the tools.



Of course, there were also monster trucks.



Obviously, Nash had memories of the road crews in Taiwan, because he knew exactly how to use the asphalt buster.



Safety first.



Reed enjoyed his presents immensely.



It was time for him to open the boys' big present.



Nash was of course, tired of opening presents and wanting to play with his slinky.



He enjoyed it immensely.



Then Reed got into the slinky action.



Nash was excited about their new Wii. He had no idea what it was though!



Abbey opened her stocking next.



Lola is pretty sure that at least one of our children is strong-willed.



Nash gave Pop a big hug to thank him for his presents.



After Abbey was finished opening her gifts, I opened my gifts. Christmas was a little different this year, as Aunt Ava and Uncle Brookie didn't come home, so we didn't follow any tradition.



This is a picture of Reed spinning around. He said, "I'm a Dreidel". We're still working on convincing Reed that he isn't Jewish.



Lola said that when she was ordering the strong-willed child that Amazon suggested that she buy this book.




And this book. I think that they will be great reading and help! James Dobson is awesome!



Will was just happy as usual.



Reed and Nash opened Will's presents so that they could play with them.



As usual, I think that you can tell that both sets of grandparents did an EXCELLENT job at spoiling our boys! But we don't really buy toys for the boys throughout the year, so once a year for a little toy spoilage is okay. That's what grandparents are for, right?

We are blessed.