Christmas 2011

Since Christmas was on Sunday this year, we decided to go to church and then come home and do all the Christmas festivities.  We went to church with Randy and Cindy in Thatcher.  Their ward did a very nice Christmas program.  After church we had a really nice brunch of french toast and bacon, then later we had green chili burritos.  Cody's Grandma Pearl made the green chili, it was very good!!  Of course Jackson got spoiled and we made out pretty good ourselves.  

 A family shot before church

 Jackson with Grandma and Grandpa

 A shot of the tree before we dug into all the gifts

 The stockings after Santa came

 Cody bringing Jackson upstairs to open his gifts

 Jackson checking out the laptop that Santa brought him - he was pretty excited

Dad looks a little tired - Jackson is excited it has a mouse!!

 Opening up his stocking

 Trying to drink out of his Mickey Mouse water bottle that he got

Opening his gift from Grandma and Grandpa Castle

 He was very excited about this gift - it is the Fisher Price Little Wheelies car ramp - not to take some of the credit but I did give my mom the idea - actually it was what I was planning on getting for him!!

 Trying to help daddy put it together

 My turn to open a gift - I think this was the game qwirkle - it is a fun game

Cody's turn

 Excited about his circular saw

 Testing out his car ramp

 This was what Jackson did when he opened his gifts and got excited - he would put his hands on his cheeks and say,"oh my gosh, oh my gosh" - super cute - but thankfully he hasn't said it in a long time

Not sure what he was checking out but thought this was funny

 Ready to open another gift

 Here is what we got for Christmas - we are definitely spoiled - we got a really neat digital pressure cooker from Cody's parents that is really handy to cook with - I would reccomend getting one

 Jackson's stocking stuff

 Cody's family always arranges their gifts on their bed so everyone can check out what they got

 Looking super cute in his new hat he got for Christmas

 Jackson really liked playing the pinball machine at Grandma and Grandpa's house

We had a great Christmas and are thankful for everyone that got us gifts.  We are also grateful to Cody's parents for hosting us.  They always take good care of us when we are there.  It was nice that Christmas was on a Sunday and we were able to start out the day celebrating what Christmas is all about.  MERRY CHRISTMAS!!