Some Holiday Fun

I thought you might like to see how G spent his Christmas. We had a great Holiday even with a little cough. Legos and Ninja Turtles were the biggest hits but G loved everything.

We are lucky to have so many people that love us and give so much. We wish everyone a wonderful New Year.

*This post was originally posted to This Boy's Life.  Some text has been edited.

Prepping for Santa

So the Santa excitement started much earlier this year and he is soooo ready for him to visit tonight.

In early December, we went to see Santa (at the mall) so that G could tell him exactly what he wanted. After the 3rd trip, Greyson agreed to stand next to Santa and even smiled. He was a bit upset when we left and he didn't have his train and train track.

Knowing that Santa needs some calories to keep him going through his long night of work, I figured Greyson needed to get in on the cookies and milk preparations.

For the sake of consistency and because I love the look, the above pictures are in black and white. I think look pretty nice but I thought it might be fun to share a little funny story about the cute PJ's in the last picture....

Two years ago (at Greyson's first Christmas), we started the tradition of getting him new PJ's and let him open them Christmas Eve. This year, when we said he could open a present he was uber excited and then he opened it and here is what we saw....

...guess he was a little disappointed but he recovered and went to bed happy and excited for Christmas morning. He did ask for one more thing this afternoon...a little bit of snow.

Merry Christmas to you all.
Brooke, Michael, and Greyson

4th of July Festivities

A rodeo, a Popsicle, and fireworks....what else do you need on the 4th of July? 

(besides maybe the lake)

Brooke

Easter Trail-ride (another 1st)

We were invited to spend Easter Sunday with my dad and his friends at their home for dinner and some horseback riding. 

As many of you know Greyson is OBSESSED with Dad's horses and especially Bubba. 

After spending the weekend with Dad and Beck and all the horses he now knows each horses name and most of the time identifies them each by name correctly. 

Sometimes he does get Bubba and Buddy mixed up but so do I since they are brothers and look very similar. The funniest is that he has renamed Grandpa Roberts' horse Sam who is now known as "Bebe" (baby).

Greyson rode Bubba (his favorite) with my Dad, Michael, and Me in the arena and we took him on his first official trail-ride and he LOVED it.

 Not one complaint except that he wanted to see all the horses behind us.

 After the trail ride he wanted to get on every horse and even did some tricks.