Christmas Fun

I asked the boys if they wanted to write letters to Santa. Easton got so excited because he had never done it before. It was really funny to hear what they wanted to say, because I had no idea what to expect.

Peyton saying "chesse"
Cole getting "too tired to write any more so you have to mom"
Cole's Letter to Santa:
Dear Santa,
When are my presents going to come? B.O.B. Wrap presents in boxes. I love mommy. And I love Easton and dad and Pey Pey and myself. Love Cole

Easton writing his letter
Easton's Letter to Santa:
Dear Santa Clause,
I don't know what I want for Christmas. You can choose, I want it to be a surprise. I'll save you some cookies and milk and some napkins just in case your hands get dirty, and you put the whole cookie in your milk and then you put in your whole hand. You can't slide down the chimney because it's not a big square. You can just come in the door, just try not to wake us up because what if I see you? Drive carefully. Don't crash. And can I know the magic words that make the sleigh and reindeer go?
Love Easton

Letters all decorated in envelopes
Another night we made snowmen. I didn't really have any specific ideas as what to use for them but the boys really wanted to make "snowmen that can be inside". I just grabbed a bunch of craft stuff and they pretty much put them together on their own. I was rather impressed. Peyton's ended up being a couple styrofoam balls with a ton of holes in it. He kept pulling them apart and sticking them back on the toothpicks, always acting like he had created a masterpiece.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

We decorated our Christmas tree this weekend. After Seth and I put the lights on, the boys decorated it all by themselves (okay, except for 4 breakable ones that we put up high - breakable meaning they are already being held together by super glue, the rest of the nice ornaments are still packed away). It was so much fun to see them so excited while decorating. I think my favorite part is one little branch that has 4 candy canes all squished together. Their decorating certainly won't be winning any awards but I think it's beautiful. I also loved Peyton's reaction every single time he walked back into the room. It was like he was seeing the tree and lights for the first time, he looked shocked and in awe every time. So adorable.

Here's pictures of them showing off their work-

The fuzz on the left side of the picture is Easton's arm, but of course this picture had the best smiles of all the pictures I took, so I had to include it

See what I mean? Obviously it's very difficult for me to get all 3 boys to look at the camera at the same time and smile.

All Ready for Church

I just love when all my boys are dressed in their white shirts and ties!! I don't think boys can get any more handsome than that... (f.y.i.- Cole did not have an accident, he was playing with a water bottle and spilled some, of course. Oh well.)

Happy Halloween!!

from the Allen boys!

WolverineBuzz Lightyear
Cutest Little Frog (This costume was one I actually bought for Easton, when we was 1. I thought I was doing so great by buying early and being all ready. But once Halloween arrived it was too small, then it was also too small for Cole so I forced Peyton to wear it, even though with the top on it was a little tight. I had to get some use out of it!)



Trunk or Treating...
We went over to our church first to do Trunk or Treating. It was very fun and exciting for the boys to get a lot of candy with relatively little walking. Peyton also caught on very quickly. He learned to grab a piece of candy -usually too big to fit in his hand - and drop it in his bucket (which he was also carrying by himself) and walk on to the next place. One time when I was busy handing out some candy he waddled over to a lady who was holding her candy bowl pretty low and helped himself to another piece.



Can't go on much further....

Bring on the Candy!!!
I can not believe how much candy my boys received. I guess that's what happens when the weather is nice and they aren't begging to go inside after a few houses. They all pretty much filled up their buckets. Cole's bucket got too heavy for him to hold up! I'm already sick of it, but of course I can't stand to throw good stuff away. I'll probably put it in our freezer and it will last til next Halloween.

This is Cole counting out some candy for Dad. He was begging to be carried after a while, and so Seth told him for every house he carried him to, he had to give him one piece of candy. After we got home I thought Cole would be upset about the deal, but he immediately started counting out pieces for Seth, even some good ones.


Hope you all had a fabulous Halloween! I'm sure we won't have another like this -at least weather wise - for a long while.

Preschool Performance

I just wanted to post a few pictures of my cute little preschool class doing their Halloween Parade and Performance. They marched around for their parents and then sang 4 songs. They were super cute and I was very proud of them, I didn't even need to sing any of it with them.