Christmas

We had a wonderful holiday with our families! And I love that each year, Christmas gets more exciting with Littlefoot. Christmas with the three of us was simple-Littlefoot received one "big" gift (it wasn't really big though), an outfit, and then a bunch of little things I had picked up at the dollar store. Jared and I had already received our gift-a brand new chest freezer! We needed one in the worst way because we could never stock up on anything when there were sales and our current freezer was so skinny and small, I couldn't even fit a frozen pizza! It's funny how things change when you're an adult. The night before, we had opened up our new pajamas. I was especially excited for those! I needed some new ones :) We had to wake up Littlefoot because we had church at 9 am. We made the mistake of giving him his main gift first before the other stuff. This little house is by Leapfrog and he absolutely would not part with it when we found it at Kohls on Black Friday. We knew then it was a keeper! He was so happy to see it again, and barely acknowledged the other stuff until he saw the Curious George books and the hot wheels car daddy had found for him.





We went to a different ward's sacrament meeting instead of our own because we needed to see my family that morning (my brother is a police officer and had to work in the afternoon). I always love that the spirit is the same no matter where you are. And while the spirit was strong, we also realized how blessed we were for the friends in our ward.

I don't have the pictures from my family yet, but we'll just say that Littlefoot was spoiled! It's his last holiday as the only grandchild (none of my siblings are married), and he is Loved! My brother and his girlfriend especially went all out, buying him new cool cups, several pairs of pajamas, shirts, and a couple of toys. They even spoiled Baby Boy with some new clothes too! Grandma and Grandpa got him Let's Rock Elmo (his eyes lit up at that one) and a train set. He's been loving trains lately and he was excited for that one. My brother also got him a toy AR (automatic rifle). We are gun people so please, no judgement :) It lights up and makes the sound and moves like the real thing. We found it pretty funny! It's definitely a toy that we'll only pull out every now and then. It was special being with my family because my sister won't be here next year. There were a lot of sentimental gifts given, including a sweet one from my brother's girlfriend to him. She found a picture of him and my grandpa, who has passed on, from third grade and had it enlarged. It was so sweet!

Following my family, we headed to Jared's. The first thing Littefoot did when we arrived was plop himself down in the living room with his cousin and one of their new tea sets. He loves playing with cups so it was right up his alley! It was hard to pull him away to open presents, but we were able to. It was worth it for him because he got his very first Buzz Lightyear toy! And then he was back to playing "tea" with his three girl cousins (they are all just a year and two years older than him-the closest in age). We found them in the hallway with the oldest one pouring water from her kettle. Pretty darn cute! While we were together, we took some pictures with the adults. Not my favorite thing to do right now being prego, but I had to grin and go along with it!





It was a perfect Christmas. Jared actually says it's the best we've had together so far :) We loved being able to go home that evening and enjoying each other.

And here are the scrapbook pages I have from Christmas so far:

Day family Nativity

our only encounter with Santa this year and he still cried!