Christmas in Pictures: Christmas Eve

I tried putting the gifts out on more than one occasion this year only to experience the same result each and every time...wrapping paper everywhere and two little boys squealing with excitement. They never really understood that what they were opening was anything more than a box but the box was just as fun as the toy inside. Here is a picture of one of the above described occasions.

Finally Christmas Eve came and in order to help them understand what we had been talking about the entire month, we let them help us put parts of the Nativity up on the wall while we told the story. It was hard not to fix the placement of each of the pieces but in the end it is the story of Jesus' birth that matters more than how our manger scene looked.

After we told the story of our Savior's birth we put the presents under the tree and this added a lot of excitement to their little lives. It seemed like Kekoa couldn't fall asleep after that and spent a lot of time running around his room screaming with pure joy.

After we were asleep (the boys and I), Sterling put a few things, by their shoes, outside of their bedroom door for the morning. I woke up to a bag of peanut M&M's by my shoes and Sterling had a few Rittersport bars by his.

I couldn't get far enough away from the goods and I don't have that handy panorama thing on my camera so here are the gifts in two separate pictures.

Christmas in Pictures: Decorating

Earlier this month we decorated our tree and let the boys help. They had such a great time putting up and pulling down all of the decorations. We had to put the decorations out of their reach but it didn't stop them from playing with the tree and getting pine needles everywhere. Makaio loved the fact that the pine needles kept falling onto the ground because that meant we could get the vacuum out (almost daily) and vacuum them up.

Here they are helping decorate the tree with Sterling. As you can tell, Kekoa was so proud of the work that he did.

Merry Christmas from The Sheffield's

Mr. Personality

Whenever people are around Kekoa acts like he is calm and well-behaved. Behind closed doors he is a completely different person. I love his little personality and sass. He makes me laugh so hard sometimes and I can't help but be grateful that he is such a goof-ball.

Here are a couple of pictures of him being himself.

Alter Egos

For Halloween this year we decided at the last minute on costumes for the boys. We thought it would be funny if they were alter egos of each other. So I introduce to you Clark Kent and Superman.

I love the picture of the two of them because of the look on Makaio's face and the way that Kekoa is looking at him.

On Halloween night we only went to two houses because we attended a Trunk-or-Treat at our church the Saturday before Halloween. Makaio didn't really care about getting candy in his pumpkin because sitting in the driver's seat of the suburban and playing with the steering wheel was too good to pass up. Kekoa on the other hand loved it! At first he didn't realize that each vehicle would be handing out candy so he kept going back to the same vehicle (about 7 times) before Sterling could convince him to move on. Once he realized that each person was going to give him candy he was in heaven.