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!

Our House

As promised, here is an attempted picture of our house with all the Crhistmas decorations up. We love to decorate the outside of our house. With the exception of the top, because Craig is afraid of heights and I am pregnant. We would love to have a Grizwald home with tons of strands of lights, but that probably won't happen without the addition of other outside outlets and another fuse.



We like how it turned out. We had a few more things to put out, but never got to them. The weather has been cold and Craig has been working a lot of hours. I pretty much did most of this myself and it took about 3 days to do. Maybe next year we can have even more lights!

Our Ward Christmas Party

Our Ward Chirstmas party was this weekend and Peyton had a blast. He has 3 friends that are around his age and they just love playing with each other. We scoped out a table at the back of the cultural hall so that the boys could all play together and not cause too many distractions.

This is Peyton, Isaac, and Noah taking the table centerpiece apart.

The kids all got to sing Jingle Bells and Peyton loved doing that. He liked being up with all the big kids.

He looks so handsome. I guess this is a preview of what his school christmas programs will be like.

Again, Peyton didn't like sitting on Santa's lap. Sorry about the blurry pictures. For some reason, Craig takes horrible pictures. (Sorry honey) I think we need a camera that is anti shake or something, because it takes awesome pictures for me, but not for Craig. Hmmm.

A few more Christmas Pictures

Peyton and his daddy.

Peyton really likes to play the piano.

Peyton liked his new blocks.

I got some new movies and a CD.



Peyton really loved opening his presents. First he played with the paper, then the box, then finally he got to the present. Good thing we had all day!



Oh boy a truck!



Peyton loved this table his Nana got him. He pushes it everywhere!

Craig was really excited to get a new Bronco jacket and also this awesome ice cream maker and Ben and Jerry's recipe book. The diet is now shot!