Christmas 2011

This year was Chrismas in California and as Matt said you could hardly tell it was Christmas considering the sun was shining, trees still had leaves on them, and it was a toasty 70 ish degrees. Because we were out of town for 2 Sundays, we missed both announcements about our ward Christmas party so we missed Daniel seeing Santa. That meant that we had to take him to the mall, but we went with Jeff & Shannon and their kids so it was a little more fun. But I'm super glad we normally get his picture at church because Santa rips you off when you want pictures from the mall. Daniel's hair is so long that the one where he's smiling (awkwardly) it looks like he has elf ears. Then the one where he was asking for "3 cars and a cars blanket" was too cute to pass up.

We went to my dad's for Christmas Eve for chicken enchiladas (yummy!) and had a good time, though we were pretty sure that the boys were going to destroy his apartment! I don't have any pictures from that night because I suck. Daniel came home with a mountain of presents though. One of the highlights was when Clayton opened his Cars memory game and said "OOOHHHH!!! THAAAANK YOUUUU!!!!" He was so frickin excited about it, we thought he might cry. It was hilarious!

Christmas morning Daniel walked right by the tree and came to our room. He still might be a little young to understand! He made out like a bandit though: Santa brought him everything he wanted and a few things more.

Matt had a pretty awesome Christmas. Phil's sister in law's something or other (there's a trail there) cleans Tim Tebow's house so Ali & LouAnne sent Matt a signed football and poster. He was super excited and now after we bought a case for the football it is sitting on our shelf next to our Christus. Yep. It's pretty important. After Ali told me she was sending them, I thought what the crap am I buying anything for him since it's going to suck in comparison. But I did make him a new Broncos blanket. He had a blanket that Sister Leacock made him for when he got baptized that had little triangles for the edging and everything. Baptism - like 19 years ago baptism. It was toast. Rips everywhere, even though I have repaired it multiple times. So I made him a new one and let me tell you, between making 180 triangles, multiple pinnings, sewing, multiple picking out of the stitches that were making it retarded, this blanket is the bain of my existence. Luckily, Debby Farrer is a miracle worker and helped me finish it! I told him that when this one dies, we are either buying one or calling sister Leacock to make him a new one cuz I'm not doing it!

Later that day we went over to my mom's where grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, & siblings all were. We were a little late on dinner so it made for a later day but that was all right. Daniel played Just Dance with his cousin Maddie and it was super awesome video footage I got! Daniel got even more loot, including art supplies, Mack the truck from Cars, his 2nd track of this Christmas, and Bumblebee. Clayton decided to play inside a box and close himself in there so that's those last pictures are of.

Since Daniel got a big boy blanket from Santa, we decided it was time for him to use the big boy bed (mostly because I didn't want to tuck in a comforter on the trundle bed). So here is where Daniel sleeps now. My baby isn't a baby anymore. =( But he is absolutely loving it! That was our Christmas. Hopefully yours was just as awesome!