Christmas Morning Part 4

As mentioned, Moose got a couple flashlights in his stocking...and they were a big hit!  It took him no time to figure out how to use them!  We all got flashlights in our stockings - so we shared and had a little light show on the ceiling when Moose discovered his!

Christmas Morning Part 3

Stockings!

Jackson got the hang of his stocking rather quickly!  It didn't take much time before he started fishing through there himself!  Some of his treasures included a book, a hockey rubber ducky and blow fish for the hot tub, a microphone to sing with Elmo, a water bottle, some cars, and a flashlight!

Christmas Morning Part 2

After a couple gifts I brought out some breakie :)  We always had the tradition growing up of fresh fruit with dips, etc.  That's the way we rolled this year!  Low maintenance, snack-ready, and delicious.

Moose started with a sneak attack from behind the table, but was gobbling it up in no time.  I think he liked this whole buffet at his level idea!  Can't say I blame him!  He always has to ask and wait...but here he could come and go and help himself!

I love his face in this photo.  Armed and loaded with his fork!

Christmas Morning Part 1

Trevor and I finally couldn't wait any longer and at about 9 we went and woke Moose up!  Trevor had ants in his pants and I was up pretty much all night anyways...and we were just waiting on the most important person!  MOOSE!

This year was magical.  We had such a wonderful few days and we feel so grateful for Jackson being in our lives!  He was so much fun and really enjoyed getting into everything this year.  The biggest obstacle was trying to get him re-focused on opening throughout it all!  He really just wanted to play with stuff!

We started with a couple presents...then on to food and stockings...and back to presents!

I LOVE this ridiculous face!

Two days before Christmas, Trev texts me from Chapters saying that he found the cutest book for Moose called "That's not my Tractor" and that he didn't know what to do because the line was so long!  The best part was, that book was already wrapped and sitting under our tree!  He doesn't remember stuff like that! It was the first present Moose opened!

The keyboard that goes with his Rockin' Elmo!

Gifts from my favorite Aunties

This past week we found some time to spend with Auntie Nicole and Auntie Caitlin to do some good ol' fashion gift exchanging!  

He opened the crank of the flashlight before the rest of it - and was mighty happy spinning it not even knowing what it did yet!

Then he discovered that if you crank - the light appears!

I think this photo is cute...

His face tells me he's excited!  We have only put a few of these together...and it may stay that way until I figure out a storage option...maybe at Auntie Nicole's house?!  Lol

 And then came the books!  Auntie Nicole has a knack for choosing some gooders.  These fall into that category!  One even choked me up a bit!  About a little penguin and a little boy (Lost and Found).  That's all I'll say!  I love that when he opens books, he gets excited every time!  He makes sure he sits and flips through it!

 And then a couple days later, we got to do it all over again with Auntie C!  She came over Christmas Eve - - - and it was fabulous! 

We can always count on Auntie to choose some awesome clothes for us!  I'm always excited to see what she's picked!  LOVE the shirts :)

Moose checking to make sure they'll fit!  And they do :)

 Thank you again ladies, not only for the fantastic gifts - but for being such wonderful role models, loving aunties, and great friends to us!

Dear Santa...

Two 'lost' photos from Santa that I had forgotten I had!

We still think his reaction was priceless!

Our tough little cookie :)

Merry Christmas

Can you believe it is December 24th?!  What a fabulous day :)  Excitement in the air, everyone cheerful and nice to each other, a season of spirit and love!

We want to wish all of you and your families a very special Christmas and a magical jump into the new year!  We hope your celebrations are warm and full of love!

Thank You Safeway!

Our Safeway FINALLY opened so we now have a grocery store near by - which is nice!  To add to that excitement, Tims and Shell have opened too!  Anywhos...Safeway has some pretty cool shopping carts that my car-loving-boy LOVED!  They were different than the usual car shopping cart...and it was fun!  We just buckled him in there and away we went!  He had a horn (correction two horns!  That he learned he could beep simultaneously!) and two steering wheels!  Fun Fun!

Baby Prep!

This second pregnancy has flown by so far.  In fact, last round we were waaaaay more prepared by this point than we are now!  However, we also had a lot more to prepare.  This time around it's mostly the nursery...which is still chalk full of photography equipment, unpainted, and no furniture has been ordered...but in time...in time!

We went to get a pair of PJs for Aidan Tuesday at Carters and poked around for ourselves as well!  Moose picked Baby C's (or is it Baby S?!  We haven't decided but are leaning towards Baby C!) take-home outfit!  Cute, cute, cute!  I got quite choked up looking at the little itty bitty newborn clothes!  With Moose running by my side, it really put into perspective how quickly the time goes and how quickly they grow.  Sigh.  Either way, it was fabulously fun to buy some newbie clothes for our special arrival that we are excitedly awaiting!

Sometimes with how busy we've been lately, we haven't sat back to think about, appreciate, and indulge in the excitement of Baby...and that makes me a little sad!  However, this pregnancy has been so different than Moose's!  More relaxed, enjoyable, settled!  We get to sit and enjoy watching and feeling him move instead of worrying...and it's been bliss!

 We picked up a couple sleepers and cute onesies too!  We have tonnes of amazingly cute clothes from Moose, but sometimes a boy's gotta have some things to call his own too ;)