Well, I somehow was able to embed all of my Shutterfly pictures on here, so guess I should write a small post about our wonderful Christmas celebrations! We had such a fun couple of days being with my family. Christmas Eve, Jeremy got home from work early which was nice and then we had the traditional chili at my parent's for dinner then headed to the Christmas Eve service.
Afterwards we all headed to our house for games and food. This has become a somewhat tradition (although with a 3 wk old last year, I passed on hosting). It was great because after a bath and entertaining aunts, uncles and grandparents for a little bit, Jonathan went to bed, and somehow slept through all our noise, but promptly woke up after everyone left and we were headed to bed. He eventually fell back asleep, although it took a while.
And because my family has always done Christmas super early, we had to be awake and out of our house by 7:30am. I of course had no problem getting up and going, the excitement of Christmas always gets to me, and I can never sleep. Yes, I'm such a little kid. And yes, every year since being married I wake up and hope that Santa has filled my stocking, but know that my husband is not about to wake up in the middle of the night. (but this is my hint to him) :) . So, after getting myself ready, Jonathan also woke up himself at 6:45 (slightly early, but ready for the day). SO we did stockings as a family here at home and then headed to my parents. And yes, Santa visited us at my parent's house again this year! :)
We had such a fun day giving and opening gifts. Jonathan only made it through about half of the event, meaning that I ended up opening most of his gifts, but he had fun playing with them later. He definitely enjoyed Christmas more this year, and enjoyed the wrapping, and particularly some Tonka trucks he received. But, mostly I think that he liked that we were distracted with the gifts and he could sneak away to get into the cabinets and things that he knows are off limits at Grandma's. :)
A couple of highlights were the super cute small child's chair that matches our larger chairs from Ikea, he also got a tool workbench from my uncle who works for Napa, which is very cool. And like I mentioned, he is loving his Tonka trucks and makes truck noise when driving them! He also got a basketball hoop from us, which I'm not sure if it is more for him or Jeremy, but as my mom suggested, the best gifts are ones that we will play with him. :) Then after the gift opening was completed the boys and their wives headed to their in-laws to do gifts and then their large family gathering and were back later for more games and a few other families came over to play more games and eat lots more food!
We have now been working on re-doing our living room a bit, and have created a "kid" area with new shelves for Jonathan and a cute Tonka car rug. Jonathan already seems to be enjoying this area and likes not being in the corner like I had him before.
OK, well I think that's about it for now, and my computer battery is about to die on me.
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