AWW, CUTE

My Handsome Benson all dressed up in a new had-me-down suit from a cousin. Looks like we need to get him some black shoes. But, he sure looks handsome!

Pop goes the Weasel!
Packer has been on this kick where he will empty out his toy box and climb inside. I sure wish I knew what was going through that kids head sometimes.
Packer has also been hooked on some new movies. Finally a break from Little Einsteins! However, after watching "Numba 2" or Tim Burton's movie "9" (which I am a little embarrassed to admit I let my little 2 year old see this movie and that he loves it - not that it's bad, in fact, it's actually the least weird and creepy of all his movies... yet still both) and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (which is totally halarious I thought) going back to Little Einsteins was not so bad.

Andie-Girl. She's sitting and rolling... in more ways than one. Since December this girl has just filled right out. I started feeding her cereal with this preemie formula that the NICU gave me in it. WOW! She caught up and is no longer a preemie. In fact, you would never know she was a preemie. She's all chub!

Here's another picture of Andie and her big brother Benson.

And my 3 little prodigies. Amazing that they belong to me. I sure do love them.

Hamily Home Hevening

My boys are so cute. They were all sitting together so reverently during Benson's extremely long prayer, I had to take a quick shot. Benson has been pretty creative with his prayers thanking our Heavenly Father for our "Big, Big, Big, Big World", toys, and anything and everything else he can think of. He loves to say the prayer.

Christmas Time

Christmas Was So Much Fun this year. Benson finally got the hang of things this year. Both Packer and Benson were up a rearing to go about 6:30 am. Packer of course had to wake up his big brother (who sleeps like his mother -- WONDERFUL). Once they were up and at 'em the wrapping paper flew and flew and flew. Santa Claus went overboard. But he came and it was lots of fun.

Christmas morning after we're done at our house we drive up to Grandma & Grandpa Lloyd's house to open more presents and spend some quality Christmas time with them. We were spoiled rotten there too. You'll notice my new boots and new slippers. I had to try them both on. I LOVE SHOES! Without fail, shoes always fit: fat, thin, pregnant, not... they always fit.

Benson and Packer LOVED opening presents. It didn't matter if it was for them or someone else. It's just awesome to be ripping open wrapping paper and seeing what's inside. It's a bonus when it's something they like!

No, that's not me in the background. It's morgan. She's holding Andie-girl. Ben is helping Packer & Benson find presents they can open... there were a lot, so it wasn't too hard to do. Christmas is AWESOME. And You'll probably notice the boys wearing their brand new Jammies Santa's Elves left the night before. We told the boys if they clean their room really good, when the elves come to check the house, they will leave a gift they can open Christmas Eve Night. Sure enough, the elves stopped by and left them some brand new jammies. The boys loved them. Andie did too, she just couldn't show it very good.

Christmas Eve Party. The Atkin side of the Family have their Christmas Party on Christmas Eve. We eat a Christmas Feast, have the kids act out the Nativity while we sing songs, bust out a pinata, and of course: Open Presents. It was a lot of fun, and it wore the kids right out.

Packer & Benson both got to be shepherds this year, and Andie got to be a little lamb.

The cool thing about being a shepherd, is that you get to carry around a stick. Packer liked to use it to hit heads with. We had to take it away. Here he is trying to take Benson's. Sorry pal.

BAAAAAA!

Benson the Shepherd.