christmas 2009

what a wonderful day! the only thing that would have made it better was if my family had been out here!

we woke up to a beautiful white christmas and lots of fun gifts under the tree. the boys slept in later than normal, thanks to a late night christmas eve, but were definitely excited to get to the tree in the morning.

ethan's favorite gift was by far the cranky the crane for his train set. he has been asking for it for a long time, so i knew it would be a hit. miles started off with the rody horse, but moved onto the train signal gate since it made noise when you hit a button. ethan was eager to help miles open his gifts and miles didn't seem to mind, so e went to town.

after we opened all of our gifts, we headed to the grandparents house for a yummy waffle breakfast and more gifts.

the boys really enjoyed the new ford truck from aunt laura and uncle jeff and ethan was soon filling up the truck bed with all sort of gear from the playroom. hilarious! after breakfast we opened the rest of the gifts and the shake and go race track from the aunt dawn and family was quite popular. ethan was getting so excited (and so was lance!) i will have to get a video soon! he jumps up and down and gets so loud, ethan that is!

sweet new niece, lucy jane

we finished off the day with a wonderful dinner prepared by my mother-in-law and some family pics in front of the christmas tree.

i put up the good family pic in my last post...here is our silly one...

it was so wonderful to see ethan enjoying christmas this year, not that he hadn't in the past, this was just different. he knew what was going on and could get excited for everything.