Christmas 2008

Well I'll begin by saying; no baby yet. Sigh. I really thought she would come before Christmas, but it looks like she's going to be late. I know there are still 5 more days till my due date, but at last weeks appt. the nurse practitioner (my doctor had to leave to go deliver a baby right before he was supposed to come in and see me-really grumpy about that!) said that there was absolutely nothing going on and the baby was still really high and I haven't had ANY contractions so I know I haven't progressed any since then either. So, yea...I probably have awhile longer.

This is the first Christmas I've had without being with my family, so it was a little weird to have it just be the three of us this year, but nice to be able to relax and enjoy the day on our own schedule. Christmas with Tyler was SO much more fun this year than last because he really got into it and understood a lot more of what was going on. The only problem is he thinks that Santa comes every night now and asked to put out cookies for Santa again last night and we had to explain that Santa came to our house last night and ate the cookies and tonight he is back home with his reindeer. Then this morning he walked straight to the Christmas tree and asked where his presents were from Santa and we had to remind him that Santa already left him his presents, and we showed him what he got and he got excited all over again. Christmas is so much fun with little ones who get so excited about the simplest of things. Can't wait till next year, when we'll have two little ones vying for presents under the tree.

Here are some pictures from our day.
Tyler putting out Santa's milk and cookies on the fireplace. He had a hard time understanding why he couldn't eat the cookies, but didn't put up a fuss when we told him they were for Santa Clause!


Opening his first present


He LOVES Dora and Diego!


Opening his present from Aunt Rebekah and Uncle Nathan (thanks again guys!)


A puppy that you can walk!


He just walks the dog around the house all day saying, "C'mon puppy." It's SO cute!




Trying to figure out how to open his present from Santa


A little help from Daddy


Could it be?


Yea, the workbench I would NOT stop playing with at Sam's Club. (I promise he was more excited than he looks in this picture!)


Helping daddy take everything out to put it together




Playing away...




This is the only picture he would give me looking at the camera


We had a beautiful white Christmas, so after lunch we took Tyler out and played in the snow!
Making a snowball


Daddy starting our snowman




Definitely not getting back up on his own!


Good job dad! Tyler liked helping roll the snowballs, but sometimes he would wander off by himself and fall down in the snow. Since he couldn't get up on his own, he would just sit there and wait for one of us to come pick him up.


At the very end Bobby convinced Tyler that it should be a snow"bunny" instead of a snow"man", so Tyler was pretty stoked about putting bunny ears on it.
Oh wait...it needs a mouth.


That's better!


Then we went inside, had naps and then ate our leftovers from Christmas dinner the night before (we had the missionaries over for dinner so opted to make the traditional Christmas dinner for them on Christmas eve). But I have to mention, while I was napping Bobby gave me the BEST Christmas present ever! He did all the dishes from our big dinner the night before, as well as all the dishes from Christmas day, which was a TON-especially since we don't have a dishwasher! He is too good to me!

Merry Christmas to all...


...and to all a good night!