Some signs of Christmas

My kids are finally getting old enough to really make Christmas a whole lot of fun.

We have here our very first ornament brought home from pre-school by the uber-proud Thomas:



And Mary Alice's contributions to the traditional poppy-seed bread making
(or in this case... RE-making) :


Four days and counting!!

Reading to baby

Here is a sweet scene of Mary Alice reading to her baby....


... who is apparently very near sighted.

New beds

The kids have decided that they would like new sleeping arrangements.


Mary Alice has adopted the tent.




And Thomas took the cedar chest


And apparently the additional boxes of diapers make it all nice and cozy.

Brothers

Can you tell that Thomas just kind of likes having a brother?

Would you eat this?

Yep... its exactly what it looks like.

Peanut butter, blackberry jam and .... ham.


Brought to you by our very own Thomas - our pickiest eater.


Who thinks mashed potatoes are gross.


But apparently his PB and J + H really hits the spot.

Crashing

Ever since our trip to the demolition derby back in August, Thomas has been playing "crash cars." This game can include anything from crashing his "hot fire" cars (a.k.a. Hot Wheels) into each other to crashing himself into other objects or other people.

Well, after a long day of frustrating his mom by crashing into chairs, tables, each and every one of Mom's "breakables", and his very irate little sister, Thomas came up with a plan to avoid yet another timeout -

his very first written disclaimer.

Which he posted by the entrance to the living room:

Translation (according to Thomas):

Anyone who enters this room will be crashed.
No exceptions.

Ahh... my little lawyer in training!

Thanksgiving with the fam

Here are some fun, random pictures of Thanksgiving with the Bradshaws.

Images of Henry

Birthday celebrations

Here are some photos of our celebrations for Mary Alice's two year birthday. Once again, it turned out to be a two-day affair. We celebrated a little bit early in Layton, while we were down there for Thanksgiving.

Here is the last minute cake Aunt Teresa whipped up to save the birthday celebrations. The bear cake I planned should have looked like this:

But, lets just say.... it didn't.

So, THANK YOU Aunt Teresa!

Mary Alice and Daddy awaiting present time.

The presents were a hit!

Just ask Tom.

And she LOVED the singing time. But unfortunately because of the cake fiasco, the dessert portion of the evening was so late that the newly deuced Mary Alice could hardly keep her eyes open and finally just asked if she could take a nap. So we put her to bed without her own birthday cake. Sad, huh?


Birthday Time - Take Two

So, a few days later we attempted the smaller family birthday party (on her real birthday). Mom made a cake - successfully this time. (Well, one that couldn't possibly be messed up.)


Here is older brother trying to keep Mary Alice from touching the flaming candles before it was time.

Blowing out the candles.




And munching on the dessert.




Present time!
Here is Mary Alice looking through her gifts.








And older brother "showing how they work."


Happy birthday, baby girl!