Christmas 2008

We had a wonderful Christmas this year! Uncle Jonathan and Christie came down on Monday from Rapid City, SD to spend the week with us. Tyler was so excited for them to come down and play with him, he kept asking all day Monday, "Where's Uncle Jon and Christie?!"

Jack had a minor surgury on his ear on Tuesday, so was pretty much out of commision for a few days...he felt pretty good that day, but on Christmas Eve he felt pretty horrible. We all went over to his brother's house for dinner that evening (yummo!), Jack just layed on the couch as we tried to keep the kids away from him so he could rest. Thank goodness he felt better the next morning so we could all enjoy Christmas day together. Some elves came ahead of Santa and left some Glow in the Dark stars on Tyler's ceiling, that was pretty amazing to him! (He LOVES to talk about stars lately, we have to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star every night to him- sometimes twice. When we are out at night he reminds us that "Heavenly Father gave us stars!") Santa was good to us all this year, Tyler got a lot of fun toys and games that have been keeping him occupied. One I would like to highlite is the wonderful gift Uncle Jonathan got Tyler....here's a fun picture of it:

Isn't that so beautiful? Meet Mr. Mouthy Mouth. I was a little nervous when Jonathan told me he was getting this for Tyler, I thought it would probably scare him...but it didn't, he thought it was pretty hilarious actually. So does Jacob! He got it for Tyler because Tyler likes to make all sorts of faces...as you can see in an old post a while back "Tyler's Many Faces". This will probably be one of those things that sticks around in the toy bin for a long long time. Jonathan also thought it was fun to stick in odd places to greet me, like when I go to get a cup from the cupboard. Here are some other pictures and videos from our day:

Jack, all bright eyed and bushy tailed Christmas Eve.

Jacob enjoyed rolling around in the gift pile, this was just before he attacked the Christmas Tree.
Tyler showing off some of his Christmas loot (Mr. The King and Lightening McQueen)

A little Christmas Eve Wii fun.

Tyler enjoying his GeoTrax Airplane sets, he got two! Thanks G-ma G-pa Mo and Aunt Melinda!

Thanks for spending Christmas with us Jonathan and Christie!