Christmas Morning!

We work up early (of course, Jaxon is always up by 6:30 AM) and opened presents and stockings.  Then Jaxon went downstairs and woke up Uncle Jesse to open more presents.  Then my dad and sister, and Jason's mom and grandma came over to open EVEN MORE presents and have breakfast.  A lovely morning.....such a switch from last year where Jaxon got a little bored with presents, this year he could have gone on all day, he LOVED opening presents. 

Jaxon helping me open my laptop from Jason.

 Jaxon opening his new tool bench from Grandpa John (notice "Christmas Story" playing in the background, that's a family tradition, have to have that playing all morning long!)

 Jaxon posing in his stocking from Aunt Heidi and Grandpa John - definitely fills it up much more than the two years past.

 Jason, GGMA (as Jaxon calls her) and Jesse.

 Jason (sleeping on the floor), Jesse (sleeping on the couch) and me (sleeping in the chair) all relaxing while Jaxon took his nap!

Enjoying a breakfast FEAST together!



Christmas Eve 2011

Christmas Eve with the Thompsons.

Grammy, as Jaxon calls her, watching the action.

Jaxon opening his present from Jerry and Debbie, his first guitar!!

Jaxon sitting in the Thompson high chair!

Let the Festivities Begin - Christmas 2011

Let the festivities begin - we, like many families I'm sure, pack as much as humanly possible into the holidays.  We typically start with Christmas Eve Morning and celebrating with Jason's dad, then Christmas Eve night we head out to Deer Park to celebrate with the Thompson's, then go to midnight Mass with Jason's Dad at Gonzaga, Christmas morning at our house with Jason's mom, brother, grandma, my dad and sister, then finish up the evening by going out to Loon Lake to celebrate with the Schuler's.  Wow - lots of family in a short of amount of time, but we love it.  And Jaxon loves seeing everyone.  Here are a few photos from the first "party" of the two days, Christmas Eve Morning with the Korbs.

North Wall Christmas Program

As I have mentioned before, Jaxon goes to North Wall Schools on Monday, Wednesday & Friday.  He enjoys his time at "school."  This year their Christmas program was held at Rogers High School in their auditorium.  It was very cute to see each class come on stage and sing their songs.  This is Jaxon's toddler class.  He is the last one one the right side.  Very cute!!

Each year we take a trip downtown to see all of the Christmas displays, lights and of course to visit Santa.  It so fun with Jaxon getting older, he is starting to understand everything that we are doing and why.  I also enjoy the fact that he isn't afraid of anything, he didn't mind sitting on Santa's lap and is always up for any kind of adventure - such a FUN little boy!

Playing at the Apple Store.

Sitting with Santa.

Getting a candy cane from Santa.



Quick family picture in front of the tree at Riverpark Square.

Christmas Outing

We took Jaxon to the Manito Park Conservatory where they have everything beautifully decorated with thousands of Christmas lights.  It was gorgeous!

Christmas Tree Hunting 2011

The weekend after Thanksgiving we headed up to Greenbluff to Dietz Tree farm where we go each year to find the perfect tree.  It was a little strange this year, since there was no snow and it really wasn't all that cold.  We actually found our tree within the first 5 minutes, but we walked around for a while just to make sure!  Here are a few photos from our adventure that day.

Jaxon helping Daddy haul the tree to the truck.

 Family photo in front of our tree.

 "How about this one for my room?"

 Aunt Heidi found her tree too!

Family photo with the Giant Santa!