December

Benson at 2 months-  Is a joy to have around.  It is nice to have a little one to hold and snuggle. We love having his smiles now too. Everyone in the house loves to hold Benson and are always asking if they can hold him.

 Family Vacation to Out of Africa- 

Christmas was the first time Michael has had two consecutive days off since he started working.  We decided to take advantage of it and do a little vacation.  We went to out of Africa.  It was neat seeing all of the animals up so close.

 Calvin feeding the giraffe

 Here I am feeding the giraffe

 Alden feeding the giraffe

 Lunch break with our favorite food.  Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

 We wanted to get one of Benson. This is how he was the entire day, he was a perfect sleeper the whole time.

 Christmas-

This is a wall I am proud of. This was the first year that everyone had a stocking completely done! (In the past I had never made one for me and I just had a couple of things to finish off on a couple of the other stockings.)

 First Christmas in his little Christmas pj's.

 This picture below was from earlier on in the month.  Some of our good friends from school who live out here in Tucson invited us over to make gingerbread houses.  The boys loved it! They loved making the houses, playing with friends and then eating them later!