Nathan's 1st Christmas

Awe, how different the holidays are when you have little ones of your own to share them with!! This Christmas was Nathan's first and we started so many traditions that we hope to continue in the years to come!

Every night in December we read a Christmas story and on Christmas Eve finished with "Twas the Night Before Christmas".

 

On Christmas Eve we attended the Children's mass at our new parish, St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Nathan did great during the extra long and crowded mass. Since we forgot to take family photos before hand we set up the self timer afterwards and took some Christmas photos and then had a fun photo session with little man.

 

 

Christmas morning was hard to get into the spirit, but knowing that it was Nathan's 1st visit from Santa made it a bit easier. Nathan was not a fan of wrapping paper being torn (surprisingly since he liked it a few months back). We opened presents that morning and then went to Brighton to spend the day with my Grandpa and other families members that stopped by his house.

Look at that face!

 

We did family Christmas at our house a couple days later with my brother and his family and my parents. Unfortunately my dad wasn't feeling well and Brighton was getting over the flu :-(

Check out the hand crafted crocodile Grandpa made me!
It is a pull toy and when in motion the legs move,
the tail wags and the mouth chomps...impressive!!

Too cold to golf outside so we let Brighton try out
her new golf clubs in the basement.




Our Family Photo

On the 28th we went to Denver and took a carriage ride around downtown to see all the Christmas lights. It was chilly, but so fun!

 

What a fun time of year the holidays are with a kiddo! Merry Christmas dear family and friends!!

**Enjoy...this blog is my Christmas card for the year :-) Unfortunately with the move I can't find my address book and cards just never got sent out, sorry!