Christmas

This was a third Christmas celebration with Aaron and the best so far. The first one, I was just glad not to be pregnant anymore and that Aaron was a healthy and happy baby. Last year we were not at home, so it just wasn't the same as waking up in your own bed and opening up presents in your own home. This year we stayed home and hosted our families over a two day marathon. First we celebrated Christmas Eve with Jeremy's family. We had an Italian dinner and finished things off with an absolutely delicious peppermint cake for dessert that Christy prepared. After dinner we opened gifts, I couldn't wait to see Aaron open up his gifts. Just a couple of weeks before we celebrated his second birthday, and he had a blast opening his birthday gifts. I think there were a total of three cameras on Aaron as he opened his gifts. He loved opening each and every present but he also wanted each present taken out of its packaging or box. Which by the way, I want to shoot the person who thinks of all the clever way to package a toy. I swear every toy is basically tied, taped and screwed in so securely you have to spend at least 10 min just to get the toy out and by then, Aaron had lost interest.

Christmas morning my family came over...early...I was shocked to see my brother up so early, one of his nicknames is vampire boy. Because we made him get up so early we had to open presents immediately, so he could go back to bed. Once again, all cameras were on Aaron. Aaron had a blast!!! He went from one present to another, he kept on saying, "More, More, More." I was worried he was going to think this was going to be an everyday thing. I was so excited when Jeremy and I opened our gift from my parents, they bought us one year passes to Disneyland (with parking)!!!! I started to cry, I was so excited!!! After opening gifts we had a strawberry and whip cream waffle breakfast...yum! Later in the morning Jeremy moved the cars out of the garage so the ping pong and dart marathons could take place, I think he whooped up on everyone so no one wanted to play anymore...show off. I don't even bother playing him anymore because I know I'm going to lose.

Christmas came and went so fast this year, I have already packed up all my Christmas decorations, and I go back to work in a couple of days. Back to the ole grind!

Aaron Turns Two!!!

We just celebrated Aaron's 2ND birthday!!! Aaron loves Elmo, Zoe, Cookie Monster and the rest of the gang so we threw him a Sesame Street party. We invited all of Aaron little friends and they all ran around like crazy people. We made him a house out of a big box and decorated it with all of the Sesame Street characters. It was the hit of the party. When it came time to open presents, Aaron had a blast, he was so excited to rip open the boxes and immediately wanted to play with all his new toys...Mom was more excited for the clothes. : ) Can't wait to see how much fun he has on Christmas morning. Mom decided to get a little creative and baked Aaron an Elmo cake, it was actually really easy and tasted pretty good. It's hard to believe that Aaron has been around for two years, the time has just flown by. We are looking forward to many more birthday celebrations.

Halloween

Happy Halloween!!!! This was Aaron first year trick-or-treating (last year he was not walking yet) and he had a blast....as did we! This year Aaron and his best friend Talon were spooky skeletons. Not even knowing it but these costumes were great in the dark...we were able to see the outline of the bones in the dark of night when they wandered off. It only took Aaron two houses to figure out what was going on. After that he continued to say, "MORE CANDY" after each house. Even after an hour of walking house to house, Aaron refused to let us hold him even though he was exhausted. We think it was the excitement of collecting as much candy as he could. Aaron had a pirate skull bucket to collect his candy and mom (Holly) carried a backup bag for the overflow from Aaron bucket. It was a challenge to distract Aaron from his bucket long enough to take candy out...when his skull bucket got too full Aaron kept dropping it from the weight. Halloween trick-or-treating was a success!!!

First Blog

I know I already have a myspace, but not all my friends and family have or understand myspace so I descided to start an informal blog page. I will try to keep it up to date on all the fun activities of our family. Enjoy!!!