Christmas 2012

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 After Santa came.
Santa Brought Nash a Wii U and Griffin a little tyke's play house.

Nash was thrilled about Christmas. He has not been wanting to sleep in his bed or sleeping in it regularly. On the way home on his own he said I am going to sleep in my bed and sleep in there all night. If I wake up I am just going to go back to sleep (which is what we tell him to do every nght but doesn't). So after we get settled, took baths, and put rain deer food out he did just that. Slept in his bed all night. He was so excited. He came to our room in the morning and said "IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!" When Griffin got up he told him the same thing. Griffin didn't know what all the fuss was about but did enjoy playing with some of his new things.

 Opening Stockings

By the tree

 

Chris got his Wii U hooked up, Griffin took a nap, and then we headed to Mimi and Poppy's for our Christmas with them.

 The boys at Mimi and Poppy's

Our Family

 

We had a great laid back day at their house. We ate our ususal breakfast casserole, opened gifts, played, napped, and headed home before the weather got bad as it had started sleeting before the big snow of 2012.

Tree and Elf

 This year we really got into the Christmas spirit. Nash was counting down the days to Christmas months in advance so much so that did end of getting one of the the count down things so we could actually count down the month of December til Christmas.
He was thrilled to put up the tree. As soon as it came out of the bag, he said "It's beautiful" "we have the best tree ever". Griffin liked it too.

 Espeically getting the ornaments.

 We also decided to do the Elf on a Shelf thing this year. I honestly have had the thing for at least a couple of years and haven't done it because I didn't want to mess with it and thought it was kinda dumb and time consuming but due to all of Nash's enthusiasm I got it out. We named our elf Yoshi. We read the book. Watched the tv show. It really was a fun thing to do. I started it and Chris quickly jumped in and  took over. Chris did amazing with the Elf. It got to be so fun. First thing in the morning Nash would want to find the Elf. He would go to the place it was the night before and when it wasn't there he would start looking for it. It kinda got fun for me too because after the intial just making sure it got moved I started looking forward to seeing where he would be in the morning. Here are a couple of good ones.

The Elf also took a bath in Marshmellows, hung from the ceiling fan, worte "Stay Classy Nash" on his magna doodle, rode a rain deer, got into Nash's apples, made a sugar angel, and much more.

Christmas Play

 Nash was in a Christmas play at our church. It was a play involving ornaments. Basic story line were they were all in the ornament box and were fighting over who really is a part of Christmas and who shouldn't be. Then of course the manger scene was there and then they realized the true meaning of Christmas and how they were all important.
 Nash was a "non-traditional" ornament a scare crow. He didn't have a speaking part. He basically got to stand there and look cute and sing some songs which he mastered quite well.

 dress rehersal

 He was not happy to have to put on make up but seriously how cute is he?

me and him goofing off back stage.
I help direct the kids which was no easy task as there were many small children with zero attention span. So they ended up staying on stage for more parts then originally planned because it was too hard to get them on and off so quick. By the end Nash was dancing and twirling his string belt around on stage. He did a really good job. He loves to sing so I see many more performances in his future.

11-30-12

 

On Griffin's acutally birthday, Friday 11/30/12, we went to The Wonder Place. It was his first time going and he throughly enjoyed it.  His favorites were splashing in the water.

 

 

 Playing with the balls..

 eating the produce..

and watching the ball float in the air.

The Big One Yr Old

 Griffin the big one year old. What a sweet and fun baby. He's pointing, cruising around, stands up on everything, has to hold on to stuff to walk around. Shakes his head yes or no. He can say dada, mama, bubba, and ball. There's other things he says we think he's saying something but not quite sure. He's been such a joy and the past year has gone by way too fast. So glad he's happy and healthy.

Thanksgiving 2012

 Nash and Griffin had a great Thanksgiving.

 It was this guy's first Thanksgiving and he was at a good age for it because he was throughly enjoying eating table food. He ate his plate and off his brother's.

 Nash had a Thanksgiving feast at school with this friends.

Nash and Kekoa

 

And my favorite...Our family picture taken by our cousin Kayla Bradford.