A veryRenner Christmas...

I have a TON of pictures from the holidays, sorry!! I figured it would be best to split it up into two posts "Renner" and "Bates." We are VERY lucky to have two wonderful families who LOVE to spoil our children. We all had a great Christmas and I think everyone felt very loved!!

We are also very lucky that our parents live about 15 minutes from each other so it makes splitting our time "easier." By easier  I mean we are able to see both sides of the family in one trip but it also means that even though we spent a week visiting in Virginia we have very little down time or time to see all of our friends. We were able to spend a lot of quality time with our moms, dads, aunts, uncles, sisters, brothers, grandparents, and even some of our best friends! Overall I would say it was a pretty great trip and a WONDERFUL Christmas!!

Very excited that Santa brought him the car truck he had asked for!!

Poor Tyler was really sick on Christmas. We ended up taking him to Urgent Care once they opened. Luckily they opened at 10 on Christmas and we were able to get him some antibiotics to help get him some relief! He started showing signs of relief within a day and his fever finally broke!! Never a dull moment!!

I was hoping Tyler would be into opening his gifts more, but he was feeling so bad that he wasn't really interested in doing much at all. Poor guy!!

Elisha has been DYING to take Carson ice skating so we FINALLY went on the 26th. (she has been asking for 2 years!!) It's a good things I made her wait because she had to hold him up the whole time!! Lucky for her he only lasted 30 mins or so!!

My Uncle Randy playing with Tyler 

My Grandma and Tyler 

Four Generations of Renner's. Grandma, Dad, me, and the boys!

A blessed Christmas

We spent a week up in DC for Christmas. Jason flew into Charlotte Thursday, Dec 22 in the morning and we hit the road by 11:30. We were making good time until we hit Richmond... it took us 4 hours to get home from there! ugh! We it will be the last time we drive up there for a while!


A few pictures from Christmas Eve at my Uncle Jeff's house:

We had a great week in DC. We celebrated Christmas for days and we saw many friends and family! It was great to see everyone especially since we do know when we will be back up there. 

Tyler 8 months

Carson 8 months 

Tyler 8 months

 

 My Baby is 8 months old!! I can't believe it!! I feel like he has changed so much in the past month! He now crawls (on his knees, finally), he can pull himself up into the standing position, he has said "hi" and "mama" but he won't say them on command (he will say "ba-ba-ba"), and he has his two bottom teeth! I'm not sure how much he weighs but my guess is 23-24 pounds. He is now wearing 12-18 month clothing. It's crazy how fast he is growing!!

 

Look at me, I'm standing!! 

Tyler's new face! Cute huh? ha!! 

I'm crawling machine!! Watch out!!

Santa Baby (or babies)

Tyler Baby 2011

Baby Carson... December 2008

Wow... it's amazing to compare pictures like these! You can tell these boys are brothers!! We are so blessed to these two wonderful boys as our children!!

Headed South

Well... it's that time again... time to house hunt! Jason starts his new job on Wednesday, YES, Wednesday!! I can't believe it!! He drove down to Orlando this morning. He will need a car down there since he will be working downtown but he won't be living down town. This week also worked out to be the best week for me to go down there and go house hunting again. Instead of flying down with two children (by myself), we decided that Carson should take a road trip and ride with Jason and I could fly with Tyler Tuesday morning. We will spend the week looking at houses, figuring out the area(s) we like best, and looking at preschools for Carson. We will all fly back to Charlotte Friday night. Jason will spend the weekend with us and then head back to Orlando Sunday night. It's all very exciting!!