Christmas Photos

We had a quite but enjoyable Christmas as usual. We actually enjoyed not having to rush around. On Christmas eve we went out to look at Christmas lights which is our family tradition. We have a hard time finding too many houses with lots of lights or at least very many in a row, but it is fun anyways. It actually started to downpour rain on us, while we were out. Craig just laughed and said, you know if we were still in Colorado, this would have been a huge snow storm. I wish it had been. I miss the snow.

Here we are Christmas morning. Peyton is looking at his new book.

Here is Peyton modeling his new frog backpack.

This frog came with a book and 3 small stuffed animals that are in the story. The big backpack frog is the mommy frog. Peyton loves it!

Peyton got this barnyard bowling game from Uncle Dustin and Aunt Jen (my brother and his wife) and he loves it. Craig and Peyton played for quite a while. It is perfect since Peyton really enjoys destroying things right now!

My mom gave me this nice fuzzy blanket. It is so soft. It has snaps on the sides so that you can drap it over you and it won't fall off. It will be nice to use while nursing the baby in the middle of the night. But as you can see, Peyton loves it too!

And so does Craig. Peyton actually went over to the couch, threw his not as soft blanket on the floor, grabbed Craig and sat him on the couch, so that they could try to blanket out together. Peyton says it is his new blanket. I don't think so!

Peyton got this viewfinder from Uncle Clint and Aunt Denise (Craig's brother and his wife). Peyton was so intruiged by it. He actually thinks it is a camera and kept saying smile!

He wanted me to have a look too.

I just love to see little ones get so excited about Christmas and about opening presents. Peyton opened our gifts as well.

This is one of the many tractors Peyton got for Christmas. This one had about 16 screws holding it in place. Why do they have to do that?

Peyton loves to play hide and seek so I found this school bus tent for him. He loves it. I picked this one because it seemed big enought for his favorite playmates to be able to fit in it. US! Craig liked that it had a sunroof.

Here I am with my expanding stomach! Still have a long ways to go!

This is how Peyton's Day ended. He was so exhausted from all the new toys, that he just crashed. Notice how Peyton and Spartacus have taken over my blanket! What is up with that?

On Christmas morning, Peyton actually slept in until 8:30 and we all got up, took showers, I made us some breakfast, then about 10:30, I brought the presents down from upstairs. I knew that as soon as Peyton saw them, he would want to open them, and he did. He went from present to present, just opening them. Occaisonally, he would pause to play with his new treasure. It was really fun to see how excited he was to open all of his "tractors". I think he got 4 tractors and a fire truck. He even got an awesome construction book from his Uncle Dustin and Aunt Jen. It has buttons on the side that you push to hear all of the construction equiptment. It is now his favorite tractor book. Thanks guys!