Merry Christmas

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Our Christmas at Home

Before leaving on a jet plane we had a special early Christmas with Grayson

The night before Chad spent a few hours getting all the toys ready and in front of the Christmas tree!

While he was doing that I premade sticky buns for our morning Christmas treat...they were yummy!

Of course the morning we would LOVE for Grayson to wake up early he sleeps in until 8AM.  Chad went and got Grayson from his crib while I waited in the living room and I recorded a video of him walking into the living room and seeing all his Christmas gifts.

It was so neat to see the excitement in his eyes and it brought a smile to my face all day.  Grayson had a great morning playing with all of his new toys.  It was also great to see Grayson open the gifts on his own.  He knows what he is doing... hopefully he will do great opening his gifts on Christmas morning at my Mom's house.

Here is the video it is around 3 minutes so don't feel like you have to watch it.  It is more for the family to see his excitement!

and now for some photos to capture the excitement from the eyes of a child

Grayson's favorite toy

finally got off of the ride on toy to open presents

boy oh boy drums in our house...if you know Chad personally you will be shocked to find out that he purchased this drum set for Grayson all on his own.  I had nothing to do with it!

playing with his new farm set

1st breakfast at his new table and chairs 

family moments in front of our Christmas tree.  All in PJ's enjoying this sweet Christmas moment together!

art project

Well I wanted to recreate our Christmas Tree foot prints for cards for Grayson's teachers, but doing this project on my own turned out to be VERY unsuccessful.  So instead I just let Grayson play with the paint. 

I am so excited tomorrow is my final day of work until 2012...

week 27 baby crew

Last Week we did have our 3D/4D ultrasound and Crew didn't want to play so we didn't get too many great images... so we will get to go back in January 2012.  This is exciting for me because we get to see his sweet face one more time before delivery day!

here is one ultrasound image

now for my week 27 update

a visit with Santa

Grayson's Visit with Santa

this pictures says it all...

no tears at all...

Since we watch POLAR EXPRESS all the time at our house we have been telling and showing Grayson who Santa Clause is so I don't know if he was shocked in this picture that it was Santa that was holding him or if he was just looking at all of Santa's hair...

it was a priceless picture!

Here is the picture of Grayson sitting on Santa's lap!

I wonder what next year will bring with two boys...

Dedication Day

Over the Thanksgiving Weekend we had Parent Dedication Day at Cross Church.  We finally were in town for this special day and we were able to participate in the dedication of our son Grayson.

The message on this day was:

You Will Love the Lord with ALL of your HEART, with ALL of your SOUL, and with ALL of your MIGHT!  Deuteronomy 6:5

It is the perfect frame work for us as Grayson's parents to teach and foster into Grayson's life.  

I will have to add for memory sake that Grayson did cry and was wanting down out of Chad's arms the entire time.  Oh well things can't always be perfect... 

Here is our professional picture from the event!

Christmas Program 2011

Christmas Program 2011

at

Grayson's school...

 Grayson helping daddy open our gift...

I love how excited he is in the pictures!

Grayson sort of participating during the Christmas Program.  He was more interested in hanging with mommy and daddy then singing and dancing.  At one point he ran up to his teacher Miss Tammy and sat on her lap.  He loves Miss Tammy!

Thanks Daddy for coming!

and one final picture captured...