Happy New Year!

What a year 2011 has been!!! It was a great year but I was definitely ready for such a roller coaster of a year to end. We had a great time celebrating New Year's Eve with some of our good friends and their little guy. We drank champagne, played with their xbox 360 (which is SO much fun), and had a slumber party. All of the boys LOVED wearing their hats and blowing (or trying to at least) their horns.

Here's to a new year and hopefully a fun and uneventful one!!

Staycation

Jared was on vacation the week of Christmas, and since the boys were finally feeling better we decided to have some fun family time and hang out in Atlanta. We went to eh Children's Museum, Centennial Park, and then to the Varsity for some chili dogs and onion rings to end a fantastic day. The boys LOVED every minute of it!

We wish you a Merry Christmas!

Whew! I feel like the month of December has FLOWN by! We had such a fun but busy month with so many wonderful memories.

The boys came down with a pretty nasty virus the week before Christmas, and wound up being on breathing treatments and tylenol for much of the holiday but they were troopers and had a blast anyway.

This was our first Christmas in our new home, and it was SO much fun to see their faces and reactions to their presents from Santa. They were beyond spoiled by our families and by Santa, but they are LOVING all of their new toys. Here are a just a few of the MANY pictures.

Best Buds

I seriously cannot take enough pictures of all of the cute things that Coleman and Carter do during the day. They LOVE each other and are truly best buds which is the sweetest thing to watch. They constantly bring each other their sippy cups, a stuffed animal, a toy, or anything they can. We have started "time out" at our house for biting, which has worked wonders only because I think they are so sad to be away from their buddy for the 30 seconds they are there. Their "twin talk" is really starting to become apparent as they have all kinds of conversations that I'm out of the loop on, but I don't mind listening to their sweet little discussion :o) And they also LOVE to wrestle and play chase.



Here's a video of them cruising around our kitchen...and yes, Jared's home office is right underneath this...I'm sure he was not enjoying it as much as Coleman and Carter were!

Oh Christmas Tree....again...

I love a good deal, and a month or so ago I bought a Groupon for a Christmas tree, hayride, smores, and hot chocolate at a tree farm about 45 minutes away. I figured if the tree turned out to be a problem with the boys, at least we had all of the other fun things to keep as memories!

Well, We loaded the boys up on Friday morning and headed to the tree farm...ony when we got there we saw the sign that said they did not open until nooon (it was 10:30am), but they were really sweet and told us that we could still pick out a tree and they'd help load it up. So the boys chased a bunny (see video) and played with the goats and we picked out our tree and off we went...





...until our tree fell off of our car on the way home! Jared and I just looked at each other and we realized there was no way for us to get it back, so we notified the police and off drove...no tree, no hot chocolate, no hayride, no smores, but we did have a pretty funny memory.

So Sunday we headed to Home Depot and bought our 2nd Christmas tree...the boys LOVE the tree!! They want to decorate and undecorate the tree, so this year we just have lights but they loved "helping" Jared get it all ready and eating Christmas sugar cookies to celebrate.

Carter and Coleman Updates

I decided I needed to update about what each of my little friends are up to these days!

Carter is an EXPLORER...he has figured out how to open all of the child locks on our cabinets (they are not tied together with a ribbon during the day) and is forever trying to figure things out and determine how they work. He is Mr. Independent, but he is also the more Mommy attached of the two munchkins.

Carter does not walk, he runs and enjoys life to the fullest every minute of every day. You can just see the joy in his eyes and can't help but smile at his sweet smile and deep belly laugh!



Coleman is an ORGANIZER...he loves to sort spoons, pots, pans, and pretty much anything and everything he can. He LOVES puzzles and enjoys figuring out how to take something apart but quickly wants to put it back together. He also loves to blow kisses to anyone and everyone while flashing his sweet smile. Coleman is also my eater and sleeper.

He will try just about any and every food you put in front of him, though he doesn't usually care for a lot of new things after the first bite. He also sleeps until 8:30am most mornings and takes the longer nap of the two.


The boys are both really starting to talk a LOT! You don't always understand everything that they are saying, but they are nonstop babblers and understand more than I often give them credit for.

The Movies and a Magazine!

On Thursday he movie trailers for both of the movies that the boys are in came out, and they were in both of the trailers! I was beyond excited to see those sweet little faces playing ohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifn tv, and I can't wait to see them on the big screen!!

Here is the trailer for The Three Stooges (Carter is Baby Moe on the left) The movie will be out April 13th:



Here is the trailer for What to Expect When You're Expecting that will be out May 11th (Coleman is Rob Huebel's baby in the cowprint stroller bottom left of screen...Rob's the actor that spits the apple juice in the Georgia Tech shirt below). WARNING: This clip does contain foul language at the end!!



And yesterday, a good friend of mine texted me to tell me that Carter was on page 29 of the new Entertainment Weekly Magazine! So of course we got in the car and went to every store looking for the latest issue. What an awesome experience! I can't wait to share all of this with our munchkins when they are older!