christmas 2011

christmas time has come and gone already, but we will certainly be taking some sweet memories with us into the new year. noah seemed to thoroughly enjoy his first holiday season and all that came with it. as mentioned in his 10 month post, the boy couldn't get enough of taking the bows off his presents -- or anyone else's, for that matter -- and enjoyed seeing all the different christmas trees and watching christmas cartoons at home.

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on christmas eve we spent the day at my parent's house where we met up with my siblings and their families and we enjoyed dinner before heading to church. after the service we took some family photos at home, then let the three youngest quickly unwrap their gifts before bedtime. noah and brie were both celebrating their first christmases this year, but because of the late hour (it was already past bedtime by the time we were opening gifts), they probably didn't enjoy it as much as they will in the years to come. noah was a trooper though and took all the bows off his gifts before allowing me to unwrap them for him.

the next day we loaded up in the armada with uncle jared and my parents for a trip to waco to visit the extended family including the great-grandparents. we enjoyed *lots* of tasty food and noah spent the better part of his day chasing around several of the small dogs -- something he's not used to since lexi is practically his own personal pony. our trooper slept on the way down and on the way home and was so sacked out by the time we got back that he went to bed in his "regular" clothes and slept all night. he obviously didn't care about being in pajamas ;)

the next morning we celebrated christmas again, this time opening the presents from the grandparents in ohio and the few gifts that matt and i had purchased for him. the plan had initially been to open these gifts on christmas morning before leaving for waco, but thanks to the late-night festivities on christmas eve, noah slept until 9am! that didn't leave much time for opening presents christmas morning, so instead we enjoyed spending the leisurely monday morning opening gifts and then assembling and playing with them until it was noah's naptime.

noah's 1st christmas

noah wanted to make sure i said a big "thank you" to all the grandparents for his wonderful gifts! we have already enjoyed playing with most of them and the clothes have been washed and are ready for wear! thank you for helping to make our christmas special, not just with gifts but with your presence! we love you and merry christmas!!!