Merry Christmas!

Merry CHRISTMAS!!! Our identical...ops I mean Fraternal TWINS!!! Can you guess which one is RHEAD and which one is Brooke? We ran out of pj's!

Carden amazed at what SANTA brought him!

We took Daddy to the ZOO! Carden got to show him his favorite, the HORNBILL!

The Glenn's going sledding at SIX FLAGS!

Riding Harold the helicopter with Lois!

Carden was actually really scared of all the rides until after riding the Thomas the train. After that he wanted to ride every ride! We are so glad he conquered his FEAR!

Well our Christmas was mainly our VAN that we luckily found on C.L.!! (thank you C.L., you got to love it!). It has been FREEDOM (the greatest gift ever)! But anyways we had a great Christmas. The Glenn family took us to SIX FLAGS which was AWESOME! Justin and I got to ride the Medusa 2x's in a row with no line! I could have ridden that ride all DAY and broken the record of 32X's! Oh I just love roller coasters!

Christmas Eve we went to the Glenns and had a YUMMY dinner. We ate a TON of HONEY HAM and funeral potatoes! We also made the CUTEST sugar cookies for Santa as we watched Santa go from continent to continent delivering MILLIONS of presents to the kids! We acted out the story of Christ's birth and I got to be Mary large with child (and I was just so thankful that I really wasn't large with child!). Carden made a great shepherd.

Christmas day was just us! Our little family of FIVE! It was quiet, but nice to just be able to sleep all day while the kids played happily with their toys! Carden got a TRAIN set from Santa (thank you Santa BEEVER!) He loves it. Rhead got a cool dump truck so he can now run around with one to match Carden's! Brooke got some cool clothes from Santa Beever!!! We also got some fun presents from Nana and Papi that we got to open on ichat which was really fun. Carden got two trains and slept with them all night. He is OBSESSED and I think I am as well. We just can't get enough TRAINS!!! They are just so cute and fun to play with!

We love you all and hope everyone had a MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Hopefully next year we can get out a Christmas card! I really wanted to do one this year, but things are still way too busy.

Christmas Early!

LOOK what Santa's Little ELF brought US!

Little update.

I think we are going to keep our blog open for a few more days/months. We keep going back and forth with making it private or keeping it open. I saved all of your emails so I will invite you when we make it private! I just get nervous sometimes keeping it open because I share probably a little too much information. But anyways we will keep it open for a couple more days (at least until Justin is able to think about something besides finals!). Anyways things are pretty CRAZY here in our home. The kids are EVERYWHERE and into EVERYTHING, which makes blogging really hard.

Justin ends finals on TUES!!! Oh I just can't wait. We are so proud of him. Can you JUST imagine being in LAW SCHOOL with THREE kids (under the age of TWO), having a JOB, and studying every minute of the day! Ohhh it kills me to think about how stressful that is. I know my days are long but I don't even have to study and keep things in my BRAIN! We just love our DADDY and think he is SO AMAZING!

Carden loves to RUN and ride his bike. He rode TWO miles yesterday at FULL SPEED which is why he fell asleep at 5:30pm and slept the WHOLE night!! He loves to talk, count, say his "ABC's" which he says whenever he sees letters! He also loves to make Brooke and Rhead laugh as well as any baby at the park. He is a good boy and really is so good with babies. We have been teaching him about stop signs and signals. He loves to say "GREEN BEANS GO!!" (green means go!) haa haa. He says beans instead of means and it really is just so cute. He still loves TRAINS and CARS and Thomas and Friends movies/trains! I have even started to LOVE everything THOMAS. We love our Mondays where we get to go with our cousins to the train museum! Carden loves his cousin Chase. He always says, "Mom, I need to go to Chase's!" It is really fun having cousins so close that we can go and play with. Lois is usually the leader and Carden loves to copy her.

Brooke is our little singer. She goes around the house screaming at the top of her lungs. She has quite the range! She also loves her song and dance to "I'm a little tea pot". She already knows the dance pretty good and gets so excited when I tip her upside down to pour her out! She loves to sleep and eat. She is starting to talk and it really sounds like REAL words. She takes a two to three hour nap now and sleeps pretty much from 7pm-8am! Now if only my BOYS would sleep!

Rhead loves to copy Carden. He loves to steal his toys. Loves to be tackled and loves to be a tease! He is really a little stinker. One minute you can be yelling at him and then the next laughing and hugging him because he is just so dang cute! He is a little smarty pants. He LOVES the swings and loves to blow out his tongue. He thinks this is just so funny and will laugh out loud forever if you keep doing it!

Well that is that. As for me. Well I have had the hardest month. Things have been really challenging but at least we are coming to a break! I am grateful for all that I DO have and I think sometimes I just loose sight of that.

What is your favorite Running SHOE?

Saucony Women's Progrid Guide 3 Running Shoe

So I went to Lady Foot Locker and wasn't impressed with their selection of running shoes. They only had one model of Saucony's which are usually my favorite. I tried on some asics but the cheapest model and really didn't like them too much. So now I am looking on amazon but really I think I want to stick with saucony. What is your favorite running shoe?

I actually tried on Rebox new ZIG running shoe and actually LOVED how light it was. I just don't know about REBOX though. Has anyone owned a pair? I was nervous because they look like they would probably fall apart real fast but I really did like them.

What shoe has worked for you?