Christmas Morning

This must have been my favorite Christmas so far.  We had so much fun having our house full of family for both, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  We did our usual enchilada feast on Christmas Eve and brunch on Christmas morning.  Everything was awesome, but the best part had to be playing ping pong in our garage.  It was pure comedy!  Even our parents and my grandparents were in on the action.  Unfortunately, I was too in the moment to bother with pictures, but I guess what happened in the garage stays in the garage.

I did however get some footage of Reid discovering his scavenger hunt from Santa on Christmas morning.

The grand finale was finding this 1932 flamed roadster pedal car that was sent from Grandpa & Grammy J (Colby's dad & step-mom).  How cool is that???  I can't wait to get the boys all greasered out for a seriously cool photo shoot with this puppy.  For now though, they pedal it around and around our kitchen island, as you can see from the skid marks left on our wood floor!

"Reid Comes to Life"

Reid and his best-friend-buddy, Noah exchanged Christmas presents early.  Noah picked out a tattoo gun for Reid that consisted of a battery-operated plastic contraption that vibrates a little marker in and out really fast when you turn it on.  I did some work on Reid's chest and talked him into waiting until Daddy got home when he asked if he could give me one... (Beware of Colby dropping his pants!).

Happy Birthday, Ronin!

Since we were celebrating Ronin's 2nd birthday at Superfranks again I wanted to add a special touch to the party, so I released my inner paper crafter.  I spent more hours than I'd like to admit glueing little Elmo eyes and noses for the banner, token boxes, and birthday boy ribbon.  While I worked diligently every night during the weeks preceding the party, Colby could be found playing Assassin's Creed on the play station in the living room.  After a good four-hour shift we would argue about who accomplished more.

 

I've got to give him credit for the cupcakes though!

And of course, what's a party without family and friends?

Ronin's First Haircut (Finally!)

So, I know I've said that I was holding out on Ronin's first haircut until we had another baby on the way because I wasn't ready to transform him from baby to little boy, but the hippy hair was seriously getting out of hand!

Ronin was a champ.  He was so still and cooperative despite the overstimulation of paparazzi, cartoons, clippers, etc.

Treasure Hunting

One of Colby's and my favorite pre-parenthood past times was treasure hunting at estate sales, garage sales & auctions for vintage Danish modern goodies for our home.  We recently braved a sale, dragging the kids along on a hunt for dining table chairs to replace some of ours that were on their last leg... almost literally :) .  We revisited our Danish friend, Lynn who sold us some cool pieces in the past and now has her own shop, Klassik by Lynn.  She's from Denmark and personally brings back shipments of furniture and stuff.  

While on our hunt for new-old chairs, we found this fun piece, not minding that it's a fake of some well known Danish artist.

We decided to keep the price down and get a little funky by getting all mismatched chairs.  We found these four for $200 with the art, which is a steal considering a decent set of four of these style of chairs can easily go for $600:

We put the finishing touch on the dining room by replacing the light fixture our home came with, with the Sputnik lamp we've dreamt about for our dining room, even back when we were in our previous home.  The $400 price tag has kept it out of our reach until we recently found it on eBay for $75 with a few missing pieces that we were able to find elsewhere.

Before:

 After: 

And if you look closely enough at the reflection, you'll see Colby being Colby.  I didn't notice until he pointed it out to me afterwards:

Happy 75th Birthday to Great Grandpa Joe!

Another Cake by Colby:

Halloween Festivities

Movie Night with Cousins:

Ronin Meets The Peanuts

Ghost Bustin' Blowout at Celebration Christian Center: