Santa Came to Town

It is amazing how different a holiday becomes when you have a child. We no longer could just run here and there and be everywhere. Everything had to be thought out around nap times and feedings and bed time. Most of all it made the holiday 100 times more fun, exciting, memorable, tiring, and GREAT!

Every year on christmas eve my hubby's family goes to breakfast and then bolwing. It is a lot of fun. They play a game where every time you get a strike you get a candy bar. After all the bars are gone you then get to take one from some one elses bag or bars. Lets just say that the first year I went the changed the rule to if I got a spare I got a bar. This year the rule was not changed and I left with out any candy I am not a bowler but I go to have fun with the family. The pictures below a my in-laws a breakfast and bowling. My hubby's little brother has been gone the last 2 years so it was fun to have him back for chirstmas.

That evening we headed over to my parent's house for our christmas party. Every year the little children put of a little program including the nativity. Little A was a sheep this year and he was so cute. I was so supprised that he left the outfit on the whole time. He just sat there on his hands and knees as if he was a sheep. It is great to take a little time and think about our Savior as a family during the christmas holiday.

Santa always makes a stop to the party to check in on the children. This year he even was checking on some of the bigger boys too. Great Grandma P. even sat on his lap. Little A was not too sure about the whole Santa thing. He was okay at first but as soon as I tried to put him down on his lap he started to cry. That is okay I think he will like him better next year.

Cousin R. was showing Santa how good he had been on the finger scale.
Little A first time experencing Santa.
Santa really wanted the brothers to sit on his lap together. I guess you never out grow loving Santa.

Santa gave Grandpa E. a remote for his TV that he was easily see the buttons. Little A loved opening gifts so much that he crawled right into his sack. He loved tearing the wraping paper on
the gifts.

Uncle L. was given pj pants that look like jeans. They were a gag gift but I think he liked them a little to much. All the little girls were given American Girl Dolls. They wanted to take a picture of them with Great Grandma P. Tonight he got cute pj from his grandma all the grandkids get them and wear them home from the party. I did not get a picture of it.

Lets just say the little A. Did every well this Christmas. Between Grandmas, Santa, mom & dad, and cousin gifts he will not need anything new until next year. You can see in the picture that he got a little of everything. Too bad that will not happen seeing that he turns 1 in feb.

Christmas morning Little A was so cute. we took him into the living room and he was so excited he was shaking and making this noise that ws so funny. He was willing to help my hubby and I open our gifts too. We opened Santa's gifts and then we went and sat by the tree to open Little A. gifts from his mom and dad.

Christmas afternoon we headed over to my in-laws. Little A's grandma and grandpa gave him that way cute sled that his is sitting in. We can not wait to take it out side and pull him around in it. I should be a fun time up at grandpa's ranch. As you can also see my Hubby and I did not do to bad either. We had a great Christmas. Sorry for the long post.

Christmas Outfit and Party.

On Sunday Little A. put his cute Christmas outfit that my mom bought him. It is a new church outfit so I thought he should wear it the Sunday before Christmas. He was feeling way cool in his new threads. That night we headed down to my aunt's house for the Christmas party. The bottom picture is of me, Little A. and my Grandma (my mom's mom). SHe gave him this truck that moves by itself once you give it a little push. Oh man he loves it. He will push it and then laugh and laugh. What a great way to start the Christmas season off.

Shinner

We have this little cute nativity set that Little People makes. We have it done low so Little A can play with it and our hopes were that he would leave the rest of the decorations alone and so far it has worked. The other day he was playing with it. it was all over the floor and he was standing up to the chair. he was waling holding on to the chair and triped and fell onto the manger. Well the manger won this time and Little A has a shinner on his eye just in time for the holidays.

Grad Pictures

Finally, here are some pictures from graduation. My camera and computer decided that they wanted to work together today and the picture uploaded. The picture below my DH is walking across the stage after having his name read. Sorry it is a little bad our camera is not great.

It snowed the whole day of graduation. There were not a whole lot of people out watching the students walk across campus but the picture shows a little bit of how the weather was. Little A had the cutest little Aggie shirt on to show his daddy how proud of him he was. The bottom right picture is my hubby with his parents and his little brother.
My hubby's mom made these way cute cookies with the "A" on them, since he is now a Aggie graduate. We have said since the day we bought our lot that when my hubby was done with school we would start to build our house. While he is done so for his gift I gave him power tools. Nothing litke tools to put a big smile on a mans face. My sister wanted to take our picture after the party we felt like we were at the prom with all the baloons as the back drop.

Thanks everyone for you love and support during school days and now that my hubby is done.

Graduation!!!

Today December 13th is a big day in our family my in-laws were married this day, my hubby asked me to marry him on this day, and today my hubby graduated from USU. What an awesome sprit there is at the ceremony. It was great. I will post pictures later, but my computer is telling me that that there are no mew pictures on my camera, but I can see them when I turn my camera on. I hope I can figure it out soon so I can put some pictures up.

Shop til you Drop!

Today I made Little A go to a lot of different stores with me to prepare for the ward christmas party. We we finally arived home there was nothing we could do the was nice to wake him up. So we took his shoes off and he is sleeping in his clothes tonight.

In my last post I stated that I would love a big snow storm. While I guess I asked for it, it is a 90% chance of a big storm on Saturday. Saturday is when My hubby is Graduating for USU. Go Aggies. I guess we are going to get to stand out in the snow. Lesson learned do not ask for a big storm unless you have nothing planned for the weekend.

White Dusting

Monday it snowed, nothing like we are use to have like when I was a little girl. I did not have time to bundle Little A up before I went to work. I was hopping to take him out when we got home but it was all melted. None of the homes you see are mine but I thought the trees looks so awesome. I know most people do not want snow but I would love a great big storm.

Dancing Elf

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Balloons & Treats

Two nights ago, we were eating dinner and Little A is a social eater so if we are eating he has to be eating even if he is not hungry. We were giving him these little treats that he loves. He was being so funny with them he would suck them in and out, stick them out and much more. A few times I was worried that he was going to choke.

Yesterday, Little A found the balloons I had bought my DH on his last day of class. It was so funny to watch him with them. He was attaching them and then he could not figure out how they were following him around the house. I was worried that one would pop and scare him. When the lady at the store was blowing them up one poped and it through him for a loop. I love how simple things entertain a child.

Cousins came to Play

Today Little A got to have fun with his cousins at his house. My sisters have little girls that are 2 weeks apart in age. They are both 4 but it is great to see them play with little A. The fav. toy was the big toy the you put blocks in. Little A loves his cousins so much. Thanks for coming and playing with us.

Elden Dattage Towing Christmas Party!

Every year for the last 25 years my Father's business has held their Christmas Party. The business was started the same year that I was born. My Parents both had great news for each other one day. My mom told my dad she was pregant and my dad told my mom and he wanted to start his own towing and auto body buiness. Little A came to the party for the first time so we had to take a picture of him with his grandparents.

My father has the most awesome secertary now. She is so cute with all the kids and she put ups with my dad and brothers every day. She deserves so type of a medal. In the picture (at the top now because I deleted it on accedient) she is leading all the children in a christmas song. Since the business has been open since 1983 she put a gift together dealing with things that were popular in 1983. It started with the movie "The Christmas Story", along with all the toys that were played and to top it all off a bebe gun for every family.

New things

So here is why I have not blogged for a while. Right after my last post our computer died. Yes it is dead. We are still trying to find a place to get it fixed, it was old but has a lot of files that we wanted on it. In the mean time we bought a new computer!!! Now it is set up and running so I want to catch everyone up.
We spent Thanksgiving with My husbands family. This was little A first Thanksgiving. That morning my husband put his socks on little A and he looked like a baby from the 80's. Little A and his cousins love playing together.
My mom bought Little A, this cute outfit. My family are big Denver fans and so we had to dress Little A that way too. You could tell that he thought that he was pretty cool.

My family always goes to the city shopping it is so much fun. The kids and the adults both get way excited for the trip. See my sister blog for more details.