Merry Christmas!

These are three of my best Christmas gifts!!

Nate turned himself into a little present.

Noah fetched all the gifts from under the tree. He just about disappeared every time.

The boys painted frames for Jay to bring to his office.

Again, I'm sorry I'm getting through these posts so quickly. In case I didn't mention it before, I lost all my photos, videos, and contacts back in November, and Jay is still trying to recover all of them. I've got lots of recent pictures I'd like to post, but I want to get some of these old ones up first.

Santa and His Reindeer

Noah left some cookies for Santa and a carrot for Rudolph.
He was astonished to see that they had been eaten when he checked the plate in the morning.

Christmas Treats

I wish I had taken pictures before they were all wrapped up, but I made some yummy caramel apples for all of Jay's employees and our neighbors. They were all dipped in caramel, then some were drizzled with white and milk chocolate, some rolled in coconut, and others rolled in mini marshmallows then drizzled with chocolate. They were delightful if I do say so myself!

Merry Christmas!!

It was so cute to watch Noah open presents this year. He delicately unwrapped each box in no hurry at all. In fact, we had to take a break and open more after dinner. Then, we finished opening the next day. (Thanks to all the thoughtful people in our lives.)

Noah definitely loves his power wheel from GG. He is a little intimidated by the actual movement because it jerks a bit when you push the pedal, but he loves to climb all over it and push all the buttons just the same.

I'm sure you won't believe this, but we actually went to McDonald's this afternoon. We just wanted to get out of the house and Noah has been squealing "PLAY" every time we drive by so we decided to go for a bit. Believe it or not, there were a lot of families there hanging out till they needed to head off to the next relatives house.

Jay and I have known for months what we wanted to get Noah for Christmas. He played with one of these train tables at a store and fell in love. Coincidentally, he's become newly obsessed with trains, so it was a perfect gift. He plays with it on and off ALL day long.

Noah enjoyed all the time he spent with family and was definitely ready for bed by the end of the day. Merry Christmas everyone! Thanks to all who thought of us!

Decorating

Jay, Noah, and I decorated our tree together tonight. It was a little chaotic with Noah helping because he was not careful with the ornaments nor did he take any note of the sharp hooks dangling off each of them. He was all over the place because he was so excited - back and forth from his little tree to the big one.

Up Goes the Tree

We put up the tree while Noah napped, so you can imagine how surprised he was to wake up to such a treat. He was so thrilled. He started adding ornaments to his tree right away. Don't mind the sweat around his ear - like I said, he just woke up! :)

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas!

This morning we decided to put up our Christmas lights. It's even more exciting now that Noah understands that this is all Christmas related.

Drum roll please...

We took a few pics but none really turned out so we'll keep trying and post a better one if we can. Merry Christmas!

Wagon

Tonight we decided to put together one of Noah's Christmas presents from Mimi and Poppy. He loved examining the wagon and would open and close, open and close, open and close, the storage/seat over and over again. Like every baby, he loves exploring new things. Then, of course, we had to test drove it through the house.

Noah's 1st Christmas!!

Christmas was very memorable this year being that it was Noah's first. We all had a wonderful time being together as a family celebrating the birth of our Savior.

Gabe's Back!!

We all trucked out to Glendale Glitters this evening to check out the festivities. We enjoyed hot chocolate, chocolate dipped strawberries, and a huge apple dipped and rolled in every sugar pleasure you can imagine!! Thanks Shads!! We definitely didn't miss the adventure on this one!

Santa

We went to Santa's Wonderland at Bass Pro Shops. Noah loved everything there except one thing...Santa. Santa was so nice and sang to him, but he was not having it. He cried until we took him off his lap. Sorry Santa - we'll try again next year!