Christmas 2012

Christmas Eve was on a Monday this year, so it made for an extra long weekend for all the Christmas celebrations! We loved having John home with us as well so we could spend more time as a family. 

Our Christmas Eve was spent with the Huston's this year. We did things a little different this year and decided to do our gift exchange while dinner was cooking. We were spoiled of course and so was Camden. It's hard to get a baby gifts when they were just born and really he has everything he needs, so we asked for a bumbo for when he gets a little older :) I give it another couple of weeks and he'll be using it.

After the gift giving we enjoyed the feast! Ham, cheesy potatoes, salad...There is always so much food around the holidays...so much for losing the baby weight!

 The rest of the night was spent visiting and talking (mostly the ladies) while the boys played video games. Since this was Josh's first year back for Christmas since the mission, we took pictures in our Russian fur hats. Camden even got a cute hat from Uncle Josh to match the family! Then it was time to make it home before Santa would arrive...we definitely had ourselves a white Christmas! This Christmas Eve we got over six inches of snow. It made the drive home horrible, but sure made for a beautiful Christmas Eve and Christmas day! 

  

On Christmas Eve, after we got home from our snowy drive, we got Camden ready for bed so Santa could come. He slept for all of two hours and was up ready to play! We say its because he was so excited for Santa, but really it was totally our fault. He slept for five hours straight at grandma and grandpa Huston's and just wasn't tired anymore. ..so we paid for it! We were pretty much up the rest of the night, but at least with a happy baby.

Christmas morning my parents came over for breakfast. Since we slept In from our lack of sleep the night before, my parents watched us open our gifts. I got the cutest gift from John and Camden...a beautiful necklace from Tiffany's. On one side it says mom and on the other it has Camden's initials. I think its safe to say that Camden was definitely the best Gift this year! 

The rest of our Christmas was spent taking naps...mostly for Camden :), visiting extended family, showing off our adorable baby boy, and eating more food at the Huston's. Our Christmas this year was great on so many levels. It is everything and more than what i could have imagined with our baby boy. We can't wait for many fun and memorable Christmas seasons to come. Until next year...