Only a month late for Christmas

Christmas was lots of fun and both Christmas eve and Christmas day were busy and full of family. Since it was on a Saturday Sunday this year both me and Paul got it off from work, so glad for that.
Christmas Eve was spent with my side of the family as usual. We had chrsitmas eve activities and dinner at Caroline's fiance Adam's house.
The kids made ginger bread houses. Liam did not participate cause he is a little young for that. The older kids put on a play. We had an array a pasta dishes for dinner. We watched the birth of Christ. And then had the traditional one present opening.
Christmas morning we had at our house. We let Liam open all of his gifts, which I did more of the opening then he did. He just kept playing with whatever got opened, had no interest in what was still hidden in paper. Had breakfast then a nap and off we headed to Paul's parents house for dinner. Did a little family photo shoot when we got there. Had mexican food for dinner. Liam was really picky that night and did not eat much. His favorite part was when we had a bon fire out in the backyard. He was happy to run free for more than an hour. I gave him a bath got him all ready for bed and we then started the trek home more than 60 miles. It was a good Christmas liam got lots of toys and it all keeps him busy.














So I am super late with this post. I blame it on the fact that I got an iphone just after new years. I am never on the computer now.

December Joy

PICTURE OVERLOAD!

That really should be the title to this post. I am not a huge fan of writting stories with my post so I am cramming all of the month of December so far into one post. I did not realize how many pictures I have taken this month. Guess month fifteen is just that special. Not its just I love this time of the year and have tried to do alot of things with Liam to keep him happy and enjoy the holiday.
So these pictures are some time that we spent with Paul's parents at their house, in their backyard, temple lights and Nielson's ice cream shop. The ones with Liam in his jammies and with the christmas lights he is eating are just some cute shots I tried to take here at home that did not turn out how I wanted, but I must say I love the one where he is looking at himself in the mirror. The ones with Liam in his green boots is a rainy day and wanted to get some with him and his umbrella, went to auntie Dianna's for those but he was more interested in running! The ones with Liam in the grey and red shirt are at a christmas party for Paul's mom's side of the family. And the ones with Santa, the grinch, the snowman and the house of tons of lights, that was tonight. That house is a block away from us and is just awesome. We wanted to see it for like the tenth time and wanted pictures with santa. Liam did not like any of the characters, but seemed the most interested in the snowman. So there you have it our month so far. More in a few days for Christmas.

Thanksgiving

Liam's second Thanksgiving did not go quite as smoothly as his first, but I guess what do I expect when I have a very busy 14 month old. My Thanksgiving started the night before as I had to work until Thanksgiving morning until 7AM. Paul watched Liam in the mornnig then by 12:45Pm we were running around getting ready. By 2:15PM we were headed off too Grandma and Grandpa Harris'. Liam ran around and played with cousins and aunt's enjoying much of the food. We had a traditional turkey feast with many from my side of the family. By 5:15PM we were finishing up dessert and now heading off to the Dunn side of the family. We had feast number 2 at Paul's brothers house in Mesa. Me and Liam did not eat at this feast because we were still full from my side of the family, where as Paul had saved up for this dinner with his family. This is where Liam's day really started to get rough. Liam loved the huge backyard he got to run around in. But once it got dark and cold we brought him inside and he was so clingy and got quite a few bumps to the head, by falling and running into things. He always has a hard time when our day is too long. But I think overall he had a fun day, and of course it was wondeful too see both sides of the family.

Just for kicks