A holly jolly Christmas

As you can see I decided to keep this blog going after all, even though I can't always stay up to date with it.

We stayed in Florida this year for Christmas and Aidan was very excited to see a bike under the tree from Santa. He has discovered the movie Polar Express and likes to yell "All a board!" when he plays with his trains now. Preparing for Christmas this year was fun, Aidan thought it was great we had a tree in the house and loved the Santa ornaments on it. He tried to take them off a couple times to play with them. Aidan was especially impressed with the lights we would see on the houses at night saying "Wow! Lights! More lights!" Scott and I enjoyed watching Aidan enjoy the season most of all, remembering when we were kids at Christmas.

From Christmas 2009

Aidan looks like an angry grunge rocker from the 90s to me in this picture with the Ukelele we got him in Hawaii :)

From Christmas 2009

Aidan being Aidan

From Christmas 2009

Aidan checking out the Christmas tree

From Christmas 2009

I keep empty Christmas boxes under the tree for him to play with

From Christmas 2009

Who wouldn't enjoy decorating cookies?

From Christmas 2009

From Christmas 2009

And tasting cookies!

From Christmas 2009

From Christmas 2009

We had dinner Christmas Eve at a friends house and we shared a little bit of our family traditions with them (wafers and honey). The kids stayed up late and enjoyed playing with each other while the adults threatened them with warnings that Santa would pass the house over if they didn't go to bed!

From Christmas 2009

From Christmas 2009

From Christmas 2009

Christmas morning came and Aidan wanted to play with each present as he opened them but we made it through them all.

From Christmas 2009

From Christmas 2009

Aidan is thankful for all the presents he got from grandmas, grandpas, and aunts and uncles.

From Christmas 2009

From Christmas 2009

From Christmas 2009

From Christmas 2009

Classic, Aidan trying on the Mr. Potato head glasses.

From Christmas 2009

We missed our families and friends of course in other parts of the country but Scott was just happy he was home for the holidays, that's all he wanted for Christmas!