Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve our family did our traditional appetizer and desserts for dinner, amazing as always! It was great to spend time with family and exchange some gifts before the big day! 

Easton spent some time watching Mickey, with his snowman cup in his new "pirate cave". Doesn't get much better than this for our little guy!

The gifts for our family exchange and my parents!

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 Having a red door really pays off this time of year...doesn't it?

My sister and my sil enjoying a holiday cocktail! They were delicious!

Our Very Own Merry Little Christmas

Merry Little Christmas

He woke up from his nap and came down to a living room set up for him

Our Christmas Post is before our Christmas Eve celebration because that is the way it all went down. Since our work schedules didn't really allow us to have our little family Christmas on its own day, we did it before Christmas Eve celebrations began. It was magical. Easton couldn't have played the part any better. He loved each and every gift we got him. He squealed, clapped, and ran around. It was great! 

The gifts were wrapped and his play house carefully put together

 As seen in the pictures below he was pretty excited and he kept saying "Ohh". He might not know what Christmas is all about but I think he got the feeling when he started opening his gifts!

After playing in his little house he opened his alligator! He ran around the house with it, as seen below!

He got a John Deere remote control tractor for toddlers. Can you just feel his excitement!!

I think he and his Dada will enjoy this toy for sure! After he opened all his gifts we packed up and headed to my parents for our traditional Christmas Eve!

Merry Christmas Eve

Today is the day! Today is Easton's Christmas. Little does he know that when he goes to sleep for his nap he will wake up with a living room filled with presents! Since I have to work tomorrow the hubby agreed that we could do his presents today, so that I wont miss the chaos! 

 After some family fun we will head over to my parents annual Christmas Eve celebration. It is a relaxing night filled with family, presents, appetizers and cocktails! 

 This little guy has been so good with the ornaments, our first day of time outs really paid off this holiday season. He has a select few that he plays with (which are from his nursery tree) and other than that he just points to the "ball" ornaments!

Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas Eve and get to be surrounded by those that you love. 

In an Instant

How quickly they grow. A year ago my baby really was a baby. I randomly found this picture this week and I have never even seen it. I have no make up on, my hair is probably unwashed and in a messy bun. My baby is in pajamas and I probably am too. I have no idea what day it was or what we were doing when it was snapped, but I love it. 

This time last year I was so sleep deprived, so nervous about going back to work and questioning everything I was doing as a mother. Although I still question and research and ask others, I am way more confident than I was in this photo. Oh to be a first born...This little babe could have cared less that I didn't know what I was doing or that I was learning moment by moment how to be a mother. I am sure I will look back on photos of this year and realize I will have grown even more as a mother and he will have most certainly grown a whole year too.  A year really passes in an instant.