Christmas 2012

This year for Christmas, we had a great time! It was full of tons of Christmas lights, lots of family and just an overall good time. My pictures are out of order, but it's the best I can do, so bear with me. Having a kid at Christmas is pretty much the best thing ever. Obviously last year Christian was just glad to be there, he had no idea what was going on. But this year he was a blast! He knew who Santa was (he calls him hoho! side note: He also calls anyone with white hair and a beard hoho, too...Moses, Noah, Heavenly Father, you get the idea!), he figured out how to rip open presents and he ate...A LOT. Sounds like a perfect Christmas to me! :)

Here are my parents getting ready for one of their dinner and dancing parties

Our house all lit up!

The tree! I asked Jared to get a few pictures of it, and apparently that was the best he could do ;)

Here are some of his "artistic" shots I think

The cheeseball himself

This gentleman is in our ward. Jared actually bleached out his beard to make it white, and so in exchange, he stopped by to surprise Christian...who was not impressed

Santa thought if he tossed the ball around a little bit, that Christian may warm up to him...

And it worked!

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For Christmas Eve, my parents did a huge meal for our family! Dungenous crab and seafood salad? Yes please! The kids had their own kids table which means that they basically just ran around while we ate dinner. Here they are climbing up trying to reach the cookies.

The kids' table.

Here's the table setting

The first course.

My mom's creation

The hubby

My mom's peppermint tree. It's like night and day compared to mine, huh?

Beth and Ian

We tried to get some shots of the kids in front of the Christmas tree...which was basically impossible.

We tried setting CJ behind Elaine to see if that would help, but then he just started looking around her

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Aaaaaannnnddd....he thought he was so funny

Christmas morning!

Trying to figure out what the heck legos are

Socks!

Me and my awesome new sewing machine!

Jared got a huge digital picture frame and cast iron skillets

Christian playing with Elaine's new ladybug nightlight

After opening presents, we went and spent a few hours up in Penryn with Carmen and the Sairtain's to visit. Then we came back down to my parent's house for some delicious prime rib. We had such a good Christmas!