Christmas Eve/ Day and lots of snow!

Merry Christmas Family! With us not being able to spend Christmas with all of our families I told you I would keep up on my blog today so you could share our Christmas Day with us! :) Both kids are amazingly napping at the same time! So, lets see if I can post oll these pictures before one of them wakes up! :)

We have had an awesome week. School was released last Friday at noon, and it was a hectic week. Tuesday we had a snow day and it continued to snow through the week. Here is a glimps of what we are looking at this morning! We asked for a white Christmas and we definately got one!

This week we took some family time playing in the snow. Well Kids and I played Daddy had to shovel. Rylie made sure to include Rob by throwing snowballs at him!

Our attempt at making snow angels was just that, an attempt. Rylie would just sink in the snow and it was too heacy for her to push her arms back and forward. All she did was get snow up her sleeve and want to go in for hot chocolate!

Christmas Eve we enjoyed a wonderful dinner and evening with Ashleigh and Sean. The kids ate, played, opened a present and tracked Santa on the computer. Here is Laurenne Rylie and Zayn waiting patiently for us to say its okay to open your presents now! Rylie and Jackson in their new PJ's

Jack Jack and Teag are best of buds! Teag's brithday is June 19th and Jack Jack is July 3rd!

Christmas morning!

Rylie asked for one thing all "Christmas Season" a doll house! So what did Santa bring her???? Yup thats right a doll house!

We missed her face when she woke up but she came running in to tell us all about it! She was so excited that she got her doll house!

Jackson got a sippy cup in his stocking and knew exactly what to do with it!

They both are getting so big so fast. We hope you all were able to enjoy your holidays and just relaz with family! We miss everyone and wish you all a Happy New Year!

Switching over to DigiScrapbooking

So I can't find the time and space to pull out all my paper and stickers and everything else that envolves making scrapbook pages, so thanks to Ashliegh she has convienced me to go digi! These are my first pages I have ever done on the computer. Its amazing how I can be in the middle of cutting out a picture and stop to feed Jackson without worrying that Rylie is going to cut off a toe! Hopefully now I will get our wedding scrapbook done, and maybe even start some pages for Jackson!

With Love!!!

Rylie's Christmas Program

Rylie Marie had her Christmas program last night and it was wonderful! I think her favorite part is getting to dress up and wear a pretty dress! Here she is before we left to go to the school!

Rylie's class opened the program with two songs! She sang beautifully! She even did the sign language that they were taught to do along with singing.

Here she is singing "Away in the Manger"

At the end of the program the whole school came up on stage and sang "Felis navi Da." (sorry I don't know how to spell). Rylie has a shaker that the kiddos got to shake during the song!When I say the whole school its from Pre-School to Forth grade and that is about 80 kids. Here is the WHOLE school.

Tis the Season!

Boy oh boy it's Christmas Season already! Last Saturday we took a family day and went to find our Christmas Tree. It was a much easier task then last year. We didn't have to park by a closed road and trudge through snow (although I was kind of looking forward to that part). We were able to enjoy a nice curvey, snow packed road, filled with a beautiful scenery! Once we spotted what looked like might be our lucky spot we all started looking.



Rylie and Daddy walked on and on looking for just the right tree while Jack Jack and I hung back and watched. He was very content just watching and exploring everything around him!







Rylie did have her eyes set on many trees
when she finally found this one!






What a perfect tiem for a photo op... oh wait no one was there to
take our picture! So excuse the closeness of our self portrait, but

hey we got us all in there!









Daddy and his two kiddos!

Time for Cereal!

Can you believe its that time already! Jackson will be five months on Wednesday. We decided to start him on some rice cereal as we felt he was very ready for it. He is constantly grabbing at what we are eating and pulling it to his mouth. He ate his cereal like a champ! He even wanted to feed it to himself! Here are a few pictures of his

first time eating from a spoon!

I love this stuff!

Hey mom give me that spoon back!

So happy after he was all fed!

It was a family affair all of us around to feed Baby Denver!

Found His Feet!

Well Baby D found his feet! I had to laugh the other day I went in to check on him cause he was supposed to be sleeping, and I found him knawing on his foot! I got a picture of him before he saw me, but he didn't care once he saw me, he just kept chewing away!

He's pretty funny now that he knows there are there! Tonight at dinner he would keep putting them up at the table and just chill with his feet up there. Then he would grap them and eat at his toes and talk. We decided that Rylie has taught him that he has to talk to get attention. Between the two of them there is never a quiet moment!

Here are a couple pictures of him and his new discovery!! HIS FEET!

With Love!

Baby Laughing!

Rolling Over Fun!

Thursday afternoons are the best times in the house! (well unless I'm teaching full day) Anyways, Thursdays Rylie gets to stay at school ALL day and she enjoys her long days at school. So needless to say its just me and baby laying at home, playing! I try hard not do work and really spend some good time with him. So today we played on the floor and I couldn't keep him on his tummy! Usually he won't stay on his tummy and he just cries, but not today! He wouldn't stay on his tummy becuase he kept rolling over. It was a lot of fun laying there with him. So of course I pull out my camera (well my camera phone, since batteries are dead in digi.) and take lots of pictures!

Here are the three stages of him rolling over!

Hey Mom look at me, I'm on my tummy and smiling!

Here I GO!

Your upside down mom!

Halloween Fun

This year for Halloween we went with a group of friends and their kiddos. We went to the one and only place to trick-or-treat. Don't ask its Pagosa and everyone goes to the only "housing development" we don't even knock on doors everyone justs sits outside of their house and hands out the candy. Different.... but yet fun!
After trick- or-treating we went to the Power House and the kiddos played some fun little games and won prizes. Rylie really wanted her face painted. SHe asked for a pink cat and boy did she get it! Her entire face covered with pink paint. It took days to get in completely off. (and not because she doesn't take baths.) :)
After fun and games for the kids we went back to Ashleighs (well girls went back) the boys went to the football game. We took all kids home to watch Diego and then to bed they went!
Girls were able to have some chit chat time and just enjoy being able to hold a conversation while all the kids were sleeping.
Here are some pictures from our evening!
Much Love~
The McCabes

New Here!

Hi Everyone!
So I am trying this out to see if I can keep it updated to keep you all updated! I will post our families latest events.
Baby Denver is four months already! Boy how fast time flies! He has rolled over from stomach to back, but doesn't do it that often. He graps onto the sides of his swing to try to pull himself out! HE is laughing and talking like crazy. He is one of the happiest babies I have seen. He hates to cry and his cry is pretty pathetic!
Rylie Marie is an amazing big sister! She is so proud now that she gets to hold him and stand up! She thinks she is SO big! Rylie is in the three year old classroom at the school I teach at, and she loves it! She is the boss of her class! She is one smart cookie and boy does she know it!
Rob and I are doing well! Life is crazy, Rob started Junior High Wrestling and that is taking up evenings and weekends right now. I am teaching in the morning and then I go back at 3:00 to run our AfterSchool Care program.
Thats about all for now but I will be posting an many pictures as this can handle as our two kiddos are growing so fast!
With Love
The McCabes