Christmas this year was so much fun as we really got to spread it out. We celebrated Christmas at Disneyland with Ryan's family which was a blast and honestly we had the best decorations ever!!! Then everyone came to our house a few days before Christmas and we had another Christmas complete with our family tradition of an horsedouvre meal. Then we also had the real Christmas of waking up Christmas morning and having stockings, Monkey Bread, and seeing what Santa left under the tree. My parents and Grandma ended up having to leave the afternoon of Christmas Day but we had already been able to load a lot of Christmas into our days. :) And we got to go out and look at Christmas which is always a big hit for us and our kids...and Aunt Kathy seemed to enjoy being dragged along with us as well. :) But it was a great time, filled with wonderful memories and family. I love this time of year!!!
The Christmas tree is actually in Jake and AJ's playroom and so they spent a lot of time around it, but they were really good around it and amazingly not an ornament was broken. :)
Jake and AJ checking out the presents that my family brought....Jake decided that he had to wear his firefighter costume that afternoon and would not take it off all day :)
AJ wondering what is in a couple of big boxes for him
Jake was our firefighter Santa, handing out all of the gifts
AJ opened a small stuffed talking Linus
My mom, Aunt Joanie, and Grandma enjoying watching Jake open some new Cars character cars
AJ loving on his new monkey
AJ got this new train made out of blocks, which both boys enjoyed playing with
Jake and his Pa Gary enjoying some time with a book
AJ having fun with our old Ride on Firetruck...both boys have loved this thing and AJ is in a huge pushing phase right now
My dad and Aunt Kathy bought each boy one of these Christmas Cupcakes...and lets just say they were a GIANT hit. :)
Jake checking out the frosting
He looks pretty happy
AJ our sweet lover really enjoyed his cupcake
Jake got all spiffed up for the Christmas Eve service at our church. His favorite part was borrowing his Daddy's Bob the Tomato tie
Christmas Morning Stockings!!! Jake really loved his small stuffed Spider Man, Santa must have known about his new love
AJ having fun with his new Christmas Little People
Santa brought both boys their own flashlight as they always want to play with ours...they were the biggest hit of the morning
Jake LOVES to build things and so we bought him some Duplos to give him a step up from the Mega Blocks
AJ checking out some new books the he received
Jake got some original Spider Man cartoons (not as scary)...yes we have already watched them many times :)
Santa Brought the boys some really cool cars that play music and drive all around...Jake loves his little yellow sports car
And AJ enjoys his truck...occasionally they race and have a lot of fun
After all the excitement the boys took it easy and just enjoyed some milk by the tree
Daddy enjoying a little reading time with his Squidly
On Christmas morning Aunt Kathy worked with Jake to build a Gingerbread Train
The train is together...now for the decorations
The icing is hard work
A wonderful train made with a lot of love
AJ got this shopping cart as a gift from my parents and he LOVES it...I see many miles going on this thing. :)
AJ having some fun with Aunt Kathy
Christmas night was also a big night for Jake, we had put a twin mattress on his car bed for my dad to sleep in and we figured that he was ready to start sleeping on it himself. Jake was SOOOOO excited to sleep on his "big boy bed"
Seems to be sleeping well...has not fallen off yet. :D I love my big Race Car Bed sleeping boy.
I hope that you all had wonderful Christmases and made many great memories of your own. Merry Christmas Belated. :D
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