In Case You Missed it, Cmas is Over

Finally our Christmas celebration ended. Whew! We exchanged gifts with Great Grandma Lucas, Dee, Bryce, Stephanie and Grandma and Grandpa Mclean.




Tyler's backpack from his freshman year of college and his mission finally broke! It was replaced by an REI Garage Sale North Face backpack we got for $10.. It has some quality issues, but hey, in our family we CANNOT pass up anything North Face for $10.




This is a really neat Christmas gift Heather made us. The Scrabble letters are perfect! And she said she didn't have to buy anything for it, she had all the materials already.



Before you look at this next picture, let me clarify. Currently there is over a foot of snow outside and it is freezing cold. But apparently just a few short weeks ago it was sunny and pretty outside! This is the girls playing on their new bike.


Ahh, yes, then it was my birthday on the 3rd. The last birthday of my 20's. The 20's have been good. A little chaotic, but really really fun. I have been so blessed by my parents, and now by a family of my own it makes me excited for the next year, and years ahead. Tyler worked much of the day, and I didn't get dressed for much of the day. He made me a cake, but had a little snafoo with the frosting he was really disappointed about. This is really what the cake looked like in the end. I was really really spoiled!!!


Here's the snow out our back doorwall. I had to creatively position the camera so you don't see a parking garage, or a building behind us, but nature is always fun to photograph. Also it is taken through the glass. No way I was going out there!!

Lastly, there has been a whole lotta this goin' on. North really isn't good at putting food from the tray into his mouth, so I stuffed a banana into this little feeder thing and he loved it! He ate half a banana, which for him is a ton! He loves making a complete mess of himself, and refuses to have his arms and hands not involved in what he is doing. Usually I give him a spoon and I have a spoon and we just rotate through the spoons, with him grabbing and taking whatever spoon I have, then I take the one he has discarded. Tonight he also (sigh) almost pulled himself up onto the girls' bed. If he's like this at 6 mo., I can only imagine what he's going to be like at 6, 16, and 26!!! Ahhh! I guess with a name like North, what do I expect? Forget the music lessons, rock climbing it is.

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