Christmas!

We had a pretty quiet Christmas around here. My parents went up north to be with JaKell and her family on Christmas morning. Jace and his family were at Katie's family's house. Chet was with his friends. So, we were on our own.

Dustyn's sister, Jerye, has a Christmas Eve party every year for her family. They are nice enough to invite us every year. Thankfully they invited us again this year! We had a good time visiting with them and eating lots of good food! Thanks guys! Of course we didn't take any pictures because we are awesome like that. We got to meet our nieces new son. He's too cute! I love babies.

A few days before Christmas, Gage was going crazy being inside. We decided to brave the cold and go outside. We went to the park so he could run. He mostly ate all of the dirty snow. Ew. (all of the pictures in this post were downloaded from facebook because the originals are on my dead computer. I am sorry the quality stinks)

Afterwards we went to Kmart to let him run. He ran around for over an hour. He had too much fun. He ran into people, messed up displays, and screamed as loud as he could. And, we let him. I know people were cussing us. :) I am glad there are places we can go to get some energy out during the winter! ;) 

Gage didn't really seem too interested in Christmas this year. We could not convince him to open any of his presents. We ended up opening them all.



He woke with a slight cold on Christmas morning.

He had fun playing with his toys though, runny nose and all. Thank heavens!

The loot. (This picture is missing a shirt from Heather. Gage is wearing it today. It's so cute! I think it's my favorite shirt that Gage owns!)
This is the only picture I got with Gage and his presents. There is NO getting him to look at the camera. He can be quite stubborn! (like his mama, I guess!)


Santa/Mom/Dad brought him a car mat and cars, an outfit (the orange vest, levis, three shirts. The one has a car on it and says "can't cathch me! the great chase of all time" which is pretty much the case when it comes to Gage. I am always chasing him. :) some pajamas and a pillowcase, lots of books, a new blanket (FAIL!), and some random stocking stuffers (like toothbrushes, sippies, and a mickey plate and silverware!).

Grandma and Grandpa gave him 4 outfits, 2 pairs of pajamas, 2 large NOISY trucks, and a moose pillow pet.

Aunt JaKell got him a cute orange stripped hooded shirt.

Uncle Chet got Gage a DVD with lots of old cartoons.

Heather sent Gage 2 super cute books (we have the first diary of a wombat book! I love that we now have the Christmas one!) and a cute shirt.

It was a good Christmas! I hope Gage will open his own presents next year!

Oh... and maybe he will play with the tree less? Pretty please? We had the tree out and Christmas cleaned up by 2:00 p.m. Christmas day. I was running out of patience with the whole Gage/Christmas tree/ornament/fake berries thing. I decided the sooner we could take it down, the better. I almost took it down a few days before Christmas. No lie!

We had all the lights off the house the next day. It was awesome. Since when did we get so motivated!

We took a HUGE load to DI on New Years Eve Day. I am enjoying this organizing thing! I hope it lasts! (Except we haven't done anything since!)