Since I have been a part of Reg's life, Christmas with his Mom and family, has been held on the Sunday prior to Christmas. It's a low stress day, where we get treated to a yummy brunch at Priddis Golf Course, and then back to Brenda & Will's house to open gifts, play a board game or two, and a late afternoon snack.
Sounds lovely, doesn't it? Unless you are the over protective Mom of an 8 month old baby who won't sleep in the car, or at Nana's house.
I was fretting, and finally thought, I would phone Reg's Mom and see if we could change things up a bit and move Christmas to Airdrie. And lucky for me, she agreed. We had brunch at our house in between Sloan's morning and afternoon naps, opened gifts in there as well, and it was almost midnight before everyone had left.
Sloan with his Uncle Brian...who for some reason must have his eyes closed for every photo...isn't he a natural with a baby? If you look close you'll see he's holding Sloan up by the back of his shirt.
Here is Sloan's cousin Sage opening up a gift, Sage definitely won the award for most enthusiasm!
Tate, Dakota & Morgan opening gifts...
They got new laptops for Christmas, and for the next several days this what you saw, in every room of the house...a definite hit!
And here is Sloan opening up his favorite gift...well not the gift, but that jingle bell on top - is the best thing ever! We have tied it to his excersaucer, and it's by far his favorite toy.
In fact, this is the look we got when we tried to move onto the next gift, which was jingle bell free...
The next night we took the kids to Airdrie's Festival of Lights, it has been years since I have gone, and I'm not sure when I might have last walked through it. It was awesome! Although Sloan was a little less than impressed to be drug out, after his bath at bed time in the cold...or maybe he just couldn't see the camera pointing at him in the dark??
And I thougth this was photo worthy, how cute are Dakota and Morgan?
At least I think they are hugging...
Three more "Christmases" to go...
Love, Julie
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