Merry Christmas

We hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a restful Holiday with family. We went to Mikey and Miss Patricia's today to exchange gifts with them. They did way too much of course. Jackson got a beautiful rocking chair from them and a slide and piano from Reese and Regan. I got some gorgeous Eldreth pottery and a beautiful antique cow print. Chad got his annual bonus, a calf of course...an extra special one this year, a granddaughter of Pride Dime, she was always one of our favorites!

We are so blessed to spend tomorrow morning with Jackson and then head to Ky tomorrow night. I think our flight gets in about 10:30 so it will be a late night but we are excited about seeing everyone there.

We wanted to share some of our Christmas pictures. As you can see, Santa already made his way to Clear Brook and left a stocking full of goodies (they wouldn't all fit) and lots of presents for Jackson in the morning...I hope he enjoys it!

Christmas Eve in our Christmas PJs waiting for Santa :)

The stocking Santa left.

Mom and dad have a sneaking suspicion they are going to be stuck opening most of these for me tomorrow!

The Weekend

Wow it is hard to believe it is the last weekend before Christmas! We had a busy week here. I stayed home from school one day to take Jackson to the doctor. His ears are finally better and he was 30.5 inches tall and 21. 8 pounds. Still in the 75% for height and the 25th for weight. Basically he is just tall and skinny still, we have no idea how! The doctor was impressed with how much he was walking and talking which made us proud of course.

Saturday morning I took my Discrete math final...boy am I glad that is over. There was nothing discrete about it, I think I will just take my B and be proud I passed. Then I came home and fixed food for the Stiles Christmas Party. We had a great time! The adults had a thieves gift exhange and I cam home with a great Longaberger bundt pan. Chad ended up taking his own gift on purpose because it was a home depot gift card and mini bottles of liquor! The kids drew names and Jackson got so many awesome books from Jennifer and an adorable stuffed cow too...brown of course.

We are almost ready for Christmas here just a few things left to get done. We are going to see Santa tomorrow night so watch for photos!

Christmas Party

Today was Jackson's Christmas party at school. His teacher said he had a great time and did a lot of eating which is definitely good! He still isn't feeling the best, we think his ears are bothering him still but we were glad he could at least enjoy his party. Here are a couple of pictures from before school...in retrospect I should have taken the tag off the Santa that Nina gave him...oops!

A Walk in the Park

Since it was so unusually warm Monday night, we met up with the Sterns to go through the Clear Brook park light show. Jackson really liked it...for a while but once he was done it was over. Luckily it started raining and we had to go anyway! Here are a few pictures...just to prove to Mikey we went!

Carson, Jackson, and Braden

Happy Birthday!

It is hard for us to believe that Jackson is one now. We had is birthday party on Saturday and had a great time. There were about 40 people here which was crowded but it was well worth it. Jackson was a little shocked by the crowd but was good overall. He liked playing in the cake and rubbed the ice cream in his hands like soap but wouldn't eat it. He got so many wonderful gifts and we can not thank everyone enough for celebrating this special day with us!

Chad and I got him a toy box for his birthday with his name carved in it. Jackson loves it as you can see but doesn't want to keep his toys in it, he would rather play in it instead! I guess we will have to buy another toy box for the toys!

Milk & Cookies

With Jackson's first birthday on the way we decided it was time to switch him to whole milk. Luckily it has been really easy since he LOVES having milk and cookies with Chad at night. Unfortunately most of ends up on the floor but at least he is learning! He hasn't had a bottle in 2 days!

Thanksgiving

We had a great but hectic Thanksgiving here. I forgot my camera on Thanksgiving day but did get some pictures on Tuesday for Jackson's Thanksgiving party at school and some others from hanging out at home over the weekend. As you can see Jackson discovered the tissue box over the long weekend!