Christmas

We are so blessed with great families. Christmas is more like a four day long celebration than just one day. Aspen and Journey got so many fun toys and really enjoyed playing with their cousins. We normally spend Christmas Eve with Mark's family and Christmas Day with mine. This year we went up to Mark's parent's house the weekend before Christmas. There was a couple feet of snow on the ground and snowed on Saturday. Aspen had a blast being pulled on the sled (with daddy) behind the motorcycle by Uncle Ryan. He was literally screaming in excitement! Journey and Ava (7 1/2 months) are both sitting up now and could play together. And they were so cute in their Christmas dresses. Lisa and Aaron and "the boys" all came on Sunday afternoon and we had a great time watching all the kids open their presents. There was no shortage of toys, let me tell you! Journey got some adorable dolls and loves them :)

Thanks to Aunt Lisa for the handmade bows. They are so cute!

Aspen loves to play with his cousin Luke and we were sad that we couldn't stay longer to let them play. Unfortunately both the kids did not sleep well away from home so we went home a night early.

Christmas morning Aspen woke up right at 7am. He came in our room and in the sweetest voice said "Merry Christmas mommy! I'm going to give you a big Christmas hug!" What a great way to wake up and start the day! We opened presents at home and then went to my parent's house for brunch and more presents. Journey enjoyed playing with the wrapping paper and Peyton slept through most of the day. Every year it is a contest between my brothers and Justin on who gets Aspen the most loved present. Usually Adrian wins but this year it was a close call between Adrian's gumball machine (thanks a lot!) and Justin's huge excavator. A couple minutes after opening the gumball machine, Aspen had about 10 in his mouth. I can't wait to find that in the carpet around here!