Living the Good Life: January 2012

We had very good and quiet Christmas this year. We stayed home again this year...even though we were really getting the bug to go visit Utah! We decided to go in the summer when there is better weather and more family to see. Anyway, I did a terrible job of taking pictures of our actual Christmas. We were recording during it so I kind of forgot to take pictures. After we were through we realized that our video recorder wasn't recording most of the time, so we only have a few after the moment shots of the opening presents. Christmas Eve we went to the church and played games with Kelie’s family. They had a bunch of minute to minute games that we played in teams. It was a lot of fun. We then headed home and sang some Christmas songs with Brent playing the guitar and read the Christmas story in Luke.

Sunday morning we let Owen look through his stocking and then got ready for 9:00 church. After we came home I made some homemade blueberry muffins and we opened presents and just hung out the rest of the day. Owen loved all of his new puzzles and toys and Brent surprised me with a very pretty church dress that I didn’t expect because I had pretty much bought my own Christmas!

I have about 5 pictures of this pose and Owen has his eyes closed in every single one of them!

Singing Christmas songs

Looking at all the presents!

Christmas morning after church. Don't mind the chocolate all over his face!

Our sad attempt at taking a picture of all three of us

Watching the race cars at Bass Pro.

Driving the train

Daddy helping Owen to drive the RC car

Some of the aftermath of Christmas morning

Playing with the train. I was a little upset when we set up the train the night before because I thought it was motorized but it isn't. Owen had so many toys that he didn't play with the train for very long periods, but now he absolutely loves it.

Watching The Polar Express and eating popcorn with Dad

Gift exchange with Owen and the girls

I made these art smocks for the girls. They turned out so adorable!

Christmas pajamas!

All of the presents...he got a little spoiled.

For New Year's we went to Jon and Vanessa's and played our traditional present bingo game. I didn't get any pictures of the bingo game because I was more concerned about keeping Owen occupied and not knocking every one's card over!