Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We celebrated the holidays in Charlotte this year. We missed seeing a lot of our family, and it was sad to be apart. But we had a wonderful time celebrating with our boys and some of our family and friends at home. Aunt Laura joined us for the Christmas Eve service at church. As always, our church is very family friendly, but Cohen takes that to a whole other level. After jumping up and down on the pews, running down the aisles trying to get other children to play with him and running his cars all over the seats, we decided to duck out a little early.

Christmas morning was truly magical. David and I had the most fun watching the excitement in Cohen's eyes as he discovered Santa had visited our house!

Henry was a little unaware of what was happening, but he liked being part of the excitement!

Cohen playing with his Yo Gabba Gabba bath squirters

My boys in their matching Christmas pajamas

Cohen and Henry were also spoiled by all of their grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Our house is packed with toys...including a new slide, trike, race cars...

Sweetest baby...

Christmas baths...

After the boys went to bed, it snowed! We had way too much fun goofing off (me in my pj's in the freezing cold).

The next morning, Cohen built his first snowman!

GG and Papa drove up to Charlotte the day after Christmas, then Nana flew up to celebrate the New Year with us. We had so much fun relaxing and playing in the snow!

Although you can't tell by his face (he just woke up), Cohen is in love with his new desk! Thank you, Mama, for sending this to him! This desk has been in the Gainer family for years - I remember all of the cousins fighting over who got to eat dinner in it (Robbie usually won). Cohen likes to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at his desk!

Hendog is apparently a FSU and UVA fan. Congrats to my Seminoles for dominating the SEC East Division Champs, the South Carolina Gamecocks, in the Chick-fil-A Bowl! It was fun playing good ole' Steve Spurrier again. What a game!

Cohen's new "thing" is to play on our bed after his bath. He immediately says, "Mama, bed" as soon as I wrap him in the towel. He likes to jump around and then snuggle under the covers.

I swear, Cohen has such a fun personality. I laugh at him all day long.

Sweet dreams in 2011!