Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! 2012 was such a wonderful year blessed with such sweet memories with friends and family. I am so blessed to be married to a wonderful man, have 2 healthy, happy little boys, a job that I love, and wonderful family and friends! I can't wait to see what surpirses 2013 has in store for us! We started out the new year with ice skating at the St. Regis! The St. Regis puts a little skating rink on the top level every year and we were so excited to try it out! Jackson wasn't too sure about it initially, but finally got a hang of it and skated around with mommy and daddy. Here are the boys getting ready for their first time around the rink!

Beckett checking out all of the excitement.

Going around with mommy! Hold on!!

Afte the ice skating, it was hot chocolate time! Loaded with whip cream and sprinkles, it was delicious!

Beckett loved with whipped cream!

Walking around with my big boy!

These two have really become best buds and are so funny together. I am constantly impressed with how much Jackson loves Beckett. He is always trying to make him laugh and get him to play with him. Here they are in the bath making tons of splashes! Beckett thought it was so much fun and just kept laughing!

My sweet boys. I know they probably won't always be so sweet with eachother, so I need to capture these moments!!

My little helper. Jackson loves to feed Beckett his yogurt in the morning.

Fort time! I am so glad we spent so much money on our couch ;)

The newest addition to the house. Daddy decided to buy the boys a motorized car. They love it! Jackson drives around and Beckett is his little sidekick. I am quite impressed with how good Jackson is at driving. Hopefully it is a good sign for when he really gets behind the wheel!

And they are off!

We hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year and wish everyone many blessings in 2013! It is going to be a great year!!

Christmas 2012 Part 2

Christmas Part 2! After my little angels finished up with our church activities, we headed to Brad and Kiera's house for a delicious meal. While the meal was getting prepared, Kiera put on some Christmas music and the kids had a dance party! James is so funny when he dances! He really gets into it! We decided to feed the kids first and then the adults sat down to a delicious meal while the kids watched a movie and patiently waited to open up 1 present! Sweet cousins! We are so blessed to have family so close to us! Jackson loves his cousins so much and is always so excited when he gets to play with them! Dance party! After we finished dinner, the kids went outiside to leave some reindeer food for the reindeers to munch on while Santa delivers the presents!

After much anticipation, the kids finally got to open up 1 present! James got a guitar.

Mary got some neo tracks.

Jackson got his first star wars toy! After our last visit to Noni and Grandaddy's over Thanksgiving, Jackson really got into playing with his daddy's old star wars toys. Now he has started his own collection!

Becket hanging out!

After the excitement of the first present, we tried to get the kids to calm down and hear Uncle Brad tell the story of baby Jesus. I think we waited a little too late!

We headed home after a wonderful Christmas Eve and Jackson left some reindeer food at our house so Santa knew to stop here!

We also left him some cookies and of course....chocolate milk, which Jackson thought Santa would enjoy more than regular milk. :)

Santa came! Jackson was so excited to see that Santa brought him everything on his list! He even brought him some bonus toys for being such a great big brother!

Beckett looking at all of the new toys!

Then the unwrapping began! It took us most of the day, but the kids opened every last present! It was such a wonderful Christmas!!

Jackson holding up another Star Wars ship! When I asked Jackson what his favorite present was this year, he said "All of them!" 

All the grandkids! Mary, 4 1/2, Ben 2 1/2 months, Becket 1, Jackson 4, and James 2.We are so blessed to have all these sweet, healthy, happy children in our family!

Merry Christmas 2012 Part 1!

 Merry Christmas to all from the Nesmith family! I had to split this post into two because there were so many magical moments captured this year! Jackson really got into Christmas this year and we all dove head first into the magic of the season! It started with decorating our house. We went a little overboard this year with the lights and had are very own Grizzwald moment when they didn't initially light up, but in the end it looked beautiful! When we were at Home Depot,  Jackson found these candy lollipops and had to have them! They didn't quite go with the rest of the house, so they found the perfect home in front of the basement door to decorate Noni and Granddaddy's room!

 Jackson and Beckett in front of the beautiful lights :) Initially we thoguht they weren't too bad but then the magic happened....they not only light up white, but also blue and red and purple and then they start flickering. Spectacular!

Jackson also wanted to put up some Christmas lights in his bedroom.

 The next stop was a Christmas cookie decorating party! Jackson really did a great job decorating....and eating!

 Delicious!

 We were so excited to have Noni with us on our annual trip to Snow Mountain! Looking at Beckett now, it is crazy to think that that is where we were when my water broke! He is a snow mountain baby!

 Going down the big slide! Jackson absolutely loved it! No fear at all!!

 Beckett getting ready to go down the hill for the first time with his brother.

 Jackson was a perfect big brother and held on tight!

 Making a snowman!

 The finshed product. Nothing says Merry Christmas like a snowman with a hot dog hat :)

 My little snow angel

 Afterwards.....the best part....karate chopping the snowman. Boys!

We ended the night with the 4D polar express movie. Jackson was completely mezmerized! Beckett even watched it! We had so much fun and will continue to make this an annual trip! Noni was even brave enough to go down the slide with Jackson. She was a little scared but Jackson reassured her that it would be okay!!

 Next tradition...gingerbread house! Jackson did such a great job putting all the candy on!

 Sweet Beckett! Just hanging out and soaking up all of the festivities.

 Jackson and Daddy playing with the family present. Santa brought us a car driving arcade game. I have to admit that I was not completely on board with it but once we got it in place, it has been a lot of fun.

 On Christmas Eve, we went to the Children's service. We got there early so that Jackson and Beckett could be part of the live nativity scene. Here are my 2 angels!

 My sweet angel heading into the church.

 Priceless! My angel reading the hymns!

Jackson walked down the aisle like a champ and stood there while everyone took pictures. So proud of my big boy! This is where I am going to end this post and the next post will start with Christmas Eve and end with the magic of Christmas day! We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We missed our families that we weren't able to see but felt so blessed to spend this wonderful time with Brad, Kiera, Mary, James, Ben, Noni, and Granddaddy.