Christmas 2012

Here is a standard, what we did for Christmas kind of post. This post did make me realize how picture crazy we are though. It was near impossible going through all the holiday photos, which were mostly terrible pictures anyway.

We spent December 23rd and Christmas Eve at my parent's. My sister and her family were visiting from Ohio so we capitalized on that and got the cousins together for 2 full days of playtime. Cole and his cousin Lisa really love playing together and this visit Cole and cousin Walt had a lot of fun together too.

December 23rd


Walt and Cole climbing in a bush




Cole got stuck in this bush. I was proud he didn't panic.

King of the Mountain!



Some hot cocoa after playing outside

 

December 24th

Henry reading with boyfriend Dan. He demanded to read books after receiving them.



Asleep in the car after a wild Christmas Eve

 

December 25th

Everything setup for the boys. I thought it actually seemed a little light this year. Sorry guys. Kristin and I built the dollhouse.

Cole investigating the leftover Santa cookie.



Aftermath of toy explosion

Dancing with Auntie Barber (Barb but Cole calls her Barber, which is too cute to not include)

 

Ready for battle.

Getting logs for the fire with Uncle B

Eating cookies with GG.




Tired after an exciting Christmas Day (Grammy DJ crossed his legs). Henry stayed awake on the drive home on both Christmas Eve and Christmas.

I think the boys both really enjoyed all the holiday celebrations. Cole especially loved driving around to see Christmas lights which we did many weekend nights leading up to Christmas. We went to Country Springs, Candy Cane Lane, Miller Valley, Cathedral Square and then we stuffed Grammy DJ and Uncle B in the back of the minivan on Christmas night to go see 2 houses that were written up in the newspaper. Unfortunately for them the boys fell asleep while we were stuck in a traffic jam to see house #2...so we were all sweating in the car, stuck waiting to see Christmas lights and the boys were snoring.