Our year in review

I can say 2010 was a very exciting year and even though it had its ups and downs, it turned out to be a good year. Here is our year in review.

January- First time meeting their Great Grandpa Joe in Chicago.

February- Their first Colts superbowl party.

March-First trip to the zoo. They even enjoyed many trips to the park. April- The climbing begins. At 11 months old, Jalen and Landon got their first tooth! May- First Birthday!June- Jalen got his first haircut.July- Our first family vacation to Great Wolf Lodge. They also began to walk and became pros after a few days.August- First trip to the state fair. They had so much fun riding the rides.September- Trips to the apple orchard.We went a couple times to different orchards and got apples. October- Happy Halloween!November- Landon got his first haircutDecember- Merry Christmas!
I look foward to see what 2011 brings us. Happy New Year everyone!

Merry Christmas

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! We had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends. I was sick with the stomach bug for 4 days and felt miserable. That did not stop me from enjoying the season with my kids and family. The boys had a wonderful Christmas. All 3 kids enjoyed all their gifts and were so excited opening them up. This year was a lot different than last. Jalen and Landon ripped up that paper to see what Santa brought them. Our house is a mess with all 3 kids toys all over. Jordan is excited that he got the kinect. I think I will have fun playing that too. Hope everyone has a safe and wonderful holiday with the new year approaching.

Christmas Eve

Jalen was getting excited for Santa.Jalen loves his Buzz he got from Uncle AnthonyJordan got the pogo stick he wanted from Grandma and papawFinally getting home, it was time to our presents at home. Jalen enjoying his new book.Jordan and his kinect Sometimes it takes two to open the big presents.Loving their new play kitchen.

MOPS service project

For MOPS (one of the moms group I participate in) we have to do a service project. My group decided to make photo mat cards for the babies in the NICU. We have them completed and will hand them out this week before Christmas. We are delivering them to St. Francis where Jalen and Landon were born. They spent 3 weeks in the NICU and the nurses took good care of my boys. The nurses love it when volunteers come in and do stuff like this. I am so excited to give back and I think these photo cards turned out really well. Here is one that I made. They will place photos of the baby in the white holders with the ribbon and on the long rectangle square the birthdate, name, height, and weight will be written on. I think this will be a wonderful keepsake for the parents.

Christmas weekend at the Barnes house

This weekend we had our Christmas celebration at Jeremy's grandparents house. The kids got some neat gifts and had a lot of fun. I think my favorite gift was the Glee cd! Jordan and I jammed it on the way home. Here are some pictures from this weekend.

Jordan showing off some gifts from grandma and grandpa.

This year was a lot different than last because Jalen and Landon were able to open their own gifts.

Landon stopped to check out what Jalen got. The musical nursery rhyme book that they love. Daddy!Grandma and Grandpa with their grandsons. Grandpa made these awesome rocking horses for the boys.Landon pretty much stayed on the whole time.

Rhythm Discovery Museum

Today my mom and I took the boys to the Rhythm Discovery Museum downtown. The boys had a blast playing with all the different instruments, especially the drums! Landon did not want to put the drum sticks down. Luckily we were the only ones there when Landon decided to have a little tantrum because we took the drum sticks away and went to a different part of the museum. Here are some pictures and a video. Enjoy!

19 months

It is hard to believe how fast these boys are growing and learning! I am so proud of my kids. Jalen and Landon are growing more and more into little boys. It is amazing how much they can pick up and learn every day. Within a month, Jalen's vocab has changed a lot. He was my non talker and had more babble than words. Now he is talking a lot more. Landon's new word this month is "cool dude." He walks around with his shades and hat saying this. It is adorable. I need to get it on video. Both boys are showing more and more interest in reading and will sit through a book now. They love pointing and saying what they see on the book. They know most of the barn animals sounds when asked and their favorite is a dinosaur "ROAR."

I have no idea what their weight/height is, but they are in 18-24 mos clothes. At their 18 month Jalen was 24 lbs and Landon was almost 23 lbs. Both love to dance, jump, and climb. They love music and just acting silly.

Today we took them to Chucke Cheese. I think Daddy was caving for their breadsticks. The boys had a blast and wore each other and us out! They loved playing the games and riding the rides. Jalen LOVED Chucke. Here are some pics from today.Sorry it's blurry. He would not stop dancing with Chucke.