Christmas Time

We hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas!  I can't believe that the Christmas season is over.  Sorry I haven't shared any of our fun times with you so I'll try to play catch up in this post.  A couple of weeks ago, Santa paid us a visit.  He came by to check and see if everyone was behaving! 

Reagan was not very excited about seeing Santa- can you tell?

 Bennett and Brady were happy to see him.  Bennett talked his ears off the whole time.  It was too cute!

Here is our little Princess before the Christmas banquet at church.

 The whole family at the banquet- no, Bennett is not being tortured.  He's just all sugared up on chocolate (fed to him by some of his fans at church).

 Christmas Eve

 Ho Ho Ho!

 Hooo hooo hooo.

 Christmas morning- Reagan liked her baby doll and stroller.

Happy Birthday Jesus!!

 Just when you thought the day couldn't get any more fun...



In case you didn't know...

If you can't tell what that fuzzy picture is- it is baby #4!!  I have been meaning to post this for a couple of weeks but have been caught up in all the holiday fun.  I am officially 15 weeks now so the baby has grown a little bit since this ultrasound picture.  Everyone in the Phillips' house is super excited.  I think Brady has a new name for the baby every week.  We are not finding out the gender of this baby so we can have a fun surprise on delivery day!  Please keep us all in your prayers as we expand our family a little bit more.

Love me some Shutterfly!

I am not sure how many of you already use Shutterfly, but I am a regular customer.  I order our Christmas cards every year from them, so when I heard that they were offering a blog promotion for 50 free holiday cards just for blogging about their products- I was totally in!  I have been looking at all the options this year for our Christmas card and I've been so excited about all the new choices they have.  Check out all the Christmas photo cards at this link http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-photo-cards or all the Holiday cards at this link http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/holiday-cards.    Some of you may remember this precious card we sent out last year.  The quality of the picture I uploaded of the card isn't that great but you get a general idea of how cute it was.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Another one of their products, I always order at Christmas time are their calendars. They are always high quality and the grandparents are always super excited to get them as a Christmas gift. Use this link to access their wall calendars http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars/wall-calendars . I've got to get to work on these for this year, but another great thing about Shutterfly is their processing and shipping time. I've always received my items before I expected.
Their blog promotion is still going, so if you would like to receive 50 free cards learn how here http://bit.ly/sfly2010
 
Can't wait to finish up our cards for this year and I can't wait for you all to see them!!

Caramel Apples

 Grandpa and Grandma made us some yummy caramel apples.  Bennett and Reagan thoroughly enjoyed them!  Brady is so funny- it was "too messy" for him.  He tried and tried.  He wanted it so bad, but the stickiness just couldn't be overcome.  Thanks Grandpa and Grandma for such a great treat!

Pumpkin Patch (a couple of weeks ago)

This is pretty late, but I wanted to make sure I shared some of our Pumpkin Patch pics from this year.  The kids had a great time and were so proud of their pumpkins.

The first couple of pics are of Brady and Bennett jumping from the hay tower.  As you can see, Bennett jumped in full force!

Face Painting- Brady got a spider and Bennett got a bat.

Bennett thought he could get as many pumpkins as he wanted.  He just started making a pile for himself.

Reagan LOVED the pumpkins!  She did not want to let go of hers.

Eric's big pumpkin.

Look at that sweet smile!

The pumpkin patch had a little petting zoo.  This is how Bennett felt about the turkey.  He was scared to death.  As the turkey neared the fence he started screaming.  Our little dare devil sure doesn't like big birds! 

                                           A picture of the culprit.

All was good again once he got on the inflatables.

Our Little Superheroes

The boys are really into superheroes right now, so this became our theme for Trunk or Treat this year. Brady was Flash, Bennett was of course Batman, and Reagan was our little Wonder Woman. She kept the wig on for like 5 seconds (as you can see in the pictures). We had Trunk or Treat at our church Saturday night and it was great. The kids had a great time. I was running around taking care of the event, so we didn't get a lot of pics of the kids. But the last one is in the moonbounce- Reagan loved it.

Is Summer Almost Over?

I cannot believe that summer is almost over!! And more importantly that I haven't let you all in on how much fun we've had this summer. We've been pretty busy. I've got lots of pictures and stories to tell, but they'll have to wait because I first need to post some 10 month pictures of our little Reagan. She is 10 months old today and I just couldn't wait to share some pictures of how big she has gotten. I pulled her hair up in a bow just to show how much hair she has now.

About 1 week and a half ago, she finally started crawling and she has gotten fast. She has also started pulling up some. I know it will only be a matter of time before she will be tottering along.

She has also discovered her baby dolls. Here she is having a serious conversation with her new little friend.

And now she is giving her baby some good sweet sugar!

Last night at the supper table, she was getting so tickled at Brady that she started making some silly faces herself. It was too funny!

Such a sweet little princess that is growing up way too fast.

Nickelodeon Live...

Last week we took the kids to see Dora, the Wonder Pets, and other Nickelodeon stars at the BJCC. It was so much fun to see the kids reaction! Dora was by far their favorite. Bennett really like it when Swiper the fox came out. I'm a little nervous about that child because he seems to root for the bad characters in stories! He is obsessed with the big bad wolf. Seriously, if anything around resembles a wolf he gets really excited about it!
We took a couple of pictures outside the theatre before we went in because cameras aren't allowed inside. Eric attempted to pull out the camera during the intermission to get some pics of the kids but the camera police came and started fussing. This is only the second time we've been to an event at the BJCC and got in trouble for using our camera! Eric said he was going to pull out the camera and start snapping pictures of our camera police- I don't think that would be such a great example for our children- Daddy getting thrown out of a Nickelodeon event. Despite our lack of pictures, we had a great family night out!

Such a girl...

Our little girl turned 8 months old last week- I can't believe yet another month has gone by! Let me tell you that this little angel is such a GIRL. She has really started developing a little personality. She has like a million different funny faces and she has started doing this pouting thing when she wants attention. It is hilarious! Eating breakfast the other morning, she went through these faces in about 45 seconds.

Here is the smile we all know and love!

I know our lives will be full of girl drama with this one!