Christmas Came Early!

Santa must have known that we are leaving to go see Aunt Emily in Vegas because he brought presents early for the boys! And Fisher and Chase must have been good this year because they got spoiled!!

Chase got a Sock Monkey for Christmas!

Fisher just LOVED this wagon full of large legos to stack! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

A new book!

Being silly!

A new friend!

What did cousin Paige and Davis get me?

We had so much fun opening presents! There were a lot!! Hope that you all have a wonderful and safe Christmas!!

Merry Christmas!

I finally got around to designing our Christmas card! Due to our hectic schedule I wasn't able to get a family photo... but you know everyone just likes seeing pictures of the kids! ;)

Our Own Handy Mandy...

Fisher has taken quite an interest in tools these days. The latest is the screwdriver. He knows when his toys run out of juice, all you have to do is unscrew the back and somehow they magically work again! He absolutely loves doing this and he could play with the screwdriver all day! (under close adult supervision of course!) I love that the simplest of things entertain him for hours!

December Already?!

Where has the time gone? I can't believe that it is already December and in a couple of weeks it will be Christmas! Time has flown by at the Crowder house and there is so much going on!

The boys are growing up and I can't believe that Fisher will be two at the end of this month! He has become quite the little boy. He is running, climbing and exploring new things. He isn't quite yet saying 'words' but him and Chase have their own little language they use to talk to each other. It's fun listening to them in the car... they keep each other pretty entertained! Fisher's new interest are trains and just being outdoors. Everyday Fisher takes my hand and walks me to the front door. This is his way of telling me that he wants to play outside. He doesn't care how cold it is, he just loves being out there. He is always listening and looking for planes, even at night!

Chase has turned into an exploring little 8 month old! He has completely mastered sitting up by himself and he is trying his hardest to crawl! He has master the backwards scoot and can end up halfway across the room in seconds! He wants to be everywhere Fisher is and just loves playing in the bath! He loves jabbering with his big brother and has the most infectious smile! He is such a happy baby and we are so blessed to have such amazing kids!

A Little Design Work

I have been going a little stir crazy with not working, so I thought I would put my creativity into designing some Halloween cards to send out. I always love designing our Christmas cards so I thought this would be fun to make as well. Here are just a couple that I worked on that I liked!!

LOVE Halloween!

I love this time of year! I love the fall weather. I love the pumpkins. I love the costumes. I love it all! I keep telling Wayne that we need to have a baby in October. I would love to throw a Halloween themed Birthday party! He is not so sure on this idea. Needless to say, the boys and I are having fun with this October. I was lucky enough to have a great friend who also loves this time of year and so we were able to take the kids to the pumpkin patch and to Gardner Village to see the witches. Thankfully she took a lot of cute pictures of the boys for me!

I dressed the boys up as a penguin and tiger for Halloween. Our neighbors had a fun Halloween Party and Fisher had a blast with everyone in their costumes. He just didn't care too much about wearing his own!

I love this picture of Fisher! He looks so happy!

Fisher at Gardner Village. Trying to take it all in!

My cute little Tiger!

Leslie took this great picture of Chase with the Pumkins! I loved how this one turned out!

A little harder than I thought!

So, now that Chase is close to sitting up by himself and Fisher is actually starting to enjoy his little brother's company I thought that I would try and take a picture of the two of them together. I even got them matching racing pajamas! Needless to say, out of the million pictures I took (and trust me... there where a lot!) I got only one of them where they both were smiling.