Merry Christmas baby boy

Although this was technically Jareth's second Christmas, we celebrated it like it was his first. Last year he noticed the lights on the tree but otherwise wasn't much interested. This year however, he was in awe of the brightly colored wrapping paper, the light up snow village, the musical train he had recieved last year, and all the sparkly ornaments on the tree. He watched with the wonder only a one year old can have while I wrapped presents. He wanted so badly to "help" and didn't understand why he wasn't allowed to touch the scissors. I couldn't help but laugh at him. He also couldn't understand why he wasn't allowed to play with the pretty ornaments. I quickly moved them up the tree after finding one in the floor with its hook missing. I did buy and set aside a few pieces of decoration that he could play with. He was given a musical snoopy and piano last year so that was put in his room where he could get to it and push the button that made it play. He loved to dance to the music. I also put a little table tree in his room with a few hardy disney ornaments on it that he could reach. The family tree however was only allowed to be touched when mommy and daddy were right with him because of the hooks and them being breakable. He was really into the decor.

The weekend before Christmas we went to Alabama to visit nana and popaw, Jareth's great grandparents. Everyone was there but one. Aunt Lynne passed away just before Thanksgiving and it was hard not to have her with us. She had gotten Jareth one of those farm sounds toys. I'm glad he has something from her.
We had a great weekend! The food was amazing as always. There was Turkey and dressing, nana's giblet gravy, dana's deviled eggs, mom made sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes, and mac and cheese. Jareth enjoyed the sweet potatoes most along with the mac and cheese. After dinner we opened gifts. The river of presents seemed never ending. Jareth is one spoiled little boy! I don't know what in the world I'm going to do with all these toys! If we weren't planning to sell the house I would turn one of the rooms into a massive play room. After gifts were done Jareth and Evan played in the new Toy Story ball pit that Evan got. They were so funny in it! And boy, did they play rough! We had a really good time. The weekend ended with Jon's and my trip to Nashville to see Garth Brooks. GREAT weekend.

Fast forward a week to Christmas. We spent Christmas Eve and Day in Athens at Jon's parents house. I ended up cooking Christmas dinner. It was good practice. I have a feeling it will fall into my hands from here on out unless we want take out. We had glazed ham, corn casserole, squash casserole, green beans, smashed potatoes a la Liz, and rolls. For dessert I made a yummy crock pot cake. Jareth loved the corn casserole! Then it was time for gifts. Jareth got legos, a bear and embroidered blanket, some light up Pumas!, coloring books, and blue jean diapers. : ) He spent most of his time playing in his toy box but he did help open his presents. The next morning we woke up to a white Christmas! It was beautiful and of course after breakfast we took Jareth outside. Then we went to the Walker family brunch. We celebrated Danyell's birthday and ate, again. They are a really fun bunch to be around. They are basically family to me. It was nice to spend a little bit of Christmas with them.

To sum it up we had a wonderful holiday. Jareth had a Christmas that I for one will never forget.