Organization!

I enlisted the help of my friend, Amanda, this past Saturday to help me organize the play room. She started a business where she helps people get organized. She's amazing! We spent all day working on the room. It started with a trip to Target to get some shelves and bins and then we worked into the early evening sorting, re-arranging, and labeling. I am normally an organized person who likes things to have a place, but with two small children, things change! I got to where I would look at the play room and be overwhelmed. My mind was cluttered, and the mess was stressing me out! Now that the room in totally organized and everything has a place, I feel a weight lifted. I'm refreshed and feel so much better! It's amazing!
Here is the link to Amanda's blog where you can see pictures.

Daddy's Boys

Now I see where the boys get their handsome looks!

John (in the middle) at around 5...It's Eli with brown hair and brown eyes (and missing teeth)!



We know Jed has John's hair. John had lots of curls as a baby, like Jed, then they went away as he got older. I took these pictures of Jed, trying to duplicate the picture of John at the piano.

Fireman Boone

Super Dad!

Jed was asleep about 2 seconds after I took this picture.

Christmas at home

We spent Christmas at home, just our family of four. It was nice and low key...well, as low key as you can get with two excited boys! I think we're going to try to be home for Christmas in the years to come. Eli enjoyed making and setting out cookies and milk for Santa and then seeing the empty plate in the morning. He told me as he was going to bed Christmas Eve that he was going to wake up when he heard Santa and peek out the window to see the reindeer. No luck, though. Also, Santa got Eli and Jed's stockings mixed up somehow. Eli didn't tell Santa that he switched stockings with Jed. Oh well. Eli didn't mind and thought that was silly...whew!
I had a hard time deciding which pictures to post, so I did a slide show including most of them. Can you tell Eli was a little excited about Christmas by all the silly faces?...Jed just feeds off Eli and it's one crazy time!