Christmas with Papa and Ah-ma

Christmas Morning at home

Christmas Eve at home

We did continue our Christmas tradition of opening one present on Christmas Eve.

The boys each got to open a gift and they just happened to be there Christmas pajamas

to wear that night. Max was a little

confused by the whole opening of the presents thing and was definitely more interested in the

wrapping paper and the bow.

Christmas Eve with the cousins

Blogging

OK. I'm finally caught up on my blogging. I have been so super busy lately that I have been slacking on the whole blogging thing. That will definitely be one of my new years resolutions. To blog more. To scrapbook more. To take more pictures. Lol, among all of the other things I want to do more of. Too bad there are never enough hours in the day to do everything that needs to be done and still get a decent amount of sleep.

So update on everything that's been going on around here.

Wyatt is almost completely potty-trained. YAY!!! He wears big boy underwear every day except for naps and at night and he has only had a few accidents. This morning he even told me he wanted to take his diaper off and put underwear on, when usually I have to make him put his underwear on. He has also been completely stubborn and out of control lately, which has just forced Shane and I to really be strict and consistent with him.

Max is crawling everywhere and pulling himself up to standing on everything. Last night he was standing, holding on to my night stand and he even reached out his hand to grab mine. As much as I want him to remain immobile, it's awesome to watch him try so hard to be a big boy like his brother. He also has been eating a lot better and he is currently cutting his two bottom teeth which are almost completely through now.

Shane got laid off from his job which happens every winter but we were not ready for it on the week before Christmas, so we are currently on a very tight budget while still trying to make Christmas special for the boys.

Another thing that I don't think I have mentioned in the blogging world yet is that we are expecting our THIRD child in June of next year. We had a couple of scares with the first trimester screening, but everything turned out fine and I'm officially due June 28th, 2009. I'm starting to get excited but still feeling a little overwhelmed by the fact that Max and the new baby will only be 14 months apart.

And I think that should pretty much catch you up on what's been going on in the Mckenzie family and I promise to try to blog more often ;)

Another favorite pic of Max

Making cookies at Grama's

We went up to my parents today to have a baking day and to celebrate my mom's birthday which is tomorrow. Wyatt had fun playing in the dough and cutting out cookies. We made three batches of sugar cookies and two batches of fudge before we decided to call it a day.

Rockwood Christmas Party 2009

My work christmas party this year was held over at Dennis's house. We brought the kids this year and it was a lot of fun. Wyatt almost made it through the whole night without any accidents, because he is almost completely potty trained now, but towards the end he was trying to get the seat up and his pants off and I think he had waited too long, so he had a little accident. I'm so proud of him for doing so good with potty training.

Anyways the party was pretty fun and there was lots of food. We did the white elephant gift exchange and walked away with a pretty sweet fondue pot. I'm excited to use that :)

The boys had fun playing with the other little kids that were there and they both made it through the night with no major meltdowns or fits. YAY!

check out these baby blues

I'm absolutely in LOVE with this picture.

Our finished Christmas Tree

We finally got our Christmas tree up and decorated. We got it the weekend after Thanksgiving, but it sat in our garage for a week or so because we have been so busy lately. It was a lot of fun decorating it this year because Wyatt is old enough to understand what's going on and he wanted to help. He didn't really understand how to get the ornaments to stay on the tree, but he had a lot of fun trying.

Meanwhile, we had to make sure the bottom couple of branches didn't have any lights or ornaments on them, because Max was way too curious about this odd thing being in his living room. He loves crawling around underneath the branches and laughs when the branches tickle his face.

My little guy is crawling...EVERYWHERE!!!

Max is officially crawling everywhere. I mean he has been crawling since Thanksgiving, but now he just straight up cruises everywhere. He loves to follow people around and as soon as he catches up to you, he lays at your feet and pumps his arms and legs like he is swimming. It's the cutest thing ever, and you can't help but pick him up.