Christmas Eve & Day!

Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas.  Every year we do Christmas Eve with my family and Day with the Thurgoods.  It works out great.  Christmas morning we experienced the first year of having a child that really understands Santa... IT WAS AWESOME!!! 

 

This is Christmas Eve at the Butchers!

 

My sister and her fam live in Boise so this is everyone else.  The boys: (really excited about this photo) my boys, Popi, Dustin, Miles, Ty &puppy chipper.

 

The girls: Nana, me, Kristin & Stacy.  It will be nice to add a baby girl to this photo next year!  We are obviously out numbered!

 

Ryder was a bit tired plus had a nasty cold (on antibiotics) so was exhausted after opening pjs!

 

Christmas morning coming down the stairs to see if Santa came!!!  With Ryder being sick and sooo beyond excited about Santa coming we started Christmas REALLY early... like 3:30am!!!  Yikes!Merry Christmas! ha ha

 

The only thing he ended up asking for was a Big Boy Bike!  Luckily he was pretty good so that is exactly what he got! Too bad its snowing outside, the living room and kitchen just aren't big enough. : )  A little weird to have a kid old enough that understands Santa and wants a legit bike.

After opening presents at home we went to the cabin to have a very winter wonderland Christmas at the cabin taking snowmobiles to get there and all!  Grandma and Grandpa gave Ryder a helmet to go with his new bike and this 4 wheeler to stay at their house to play with!  It kept him busy which was nice!  He also got a leappad2 from them that he will love as soon as either his Mom or Dad set it up!

 

Christmas night we go to Christians grandparents house.  Ryder was pretty good until he realized he was running a long day on only about 5 hours of sleep when he is used to about 10-12 plus a nap still.  So this photo concludes our Christmas perfectly!  It was hilarious and definitely much needed bedtime.



Santa AGAIN!

Just 1 week before Christmas we were over at Christians parents house for dinner and Santa showed up!  Ryder was again a little nervous then after a few minutes (and a couple presents) he was doing much better and even gave Santa a snuggle on the way out.  Santa is a big Jazz fan (incase you didn't know) and brought Ryder a Jazz jersey, little jazz bear and a bell off of one of his Reindeer!  Ryder was so excited!  Thank you Santa!

 

And yes, my belly is getting huge!

 

Santa!

We had our ward Christmas Party on Saturday night and Santa was there!  Ryder was so excited to see him until it came to actually sitting on his lap.  So instead this was plan B.  Ryder sat with me while Christian and I snuggled with Santa.  He gave Santa a High Five and Bones and when Santa asked him what he wanted he just said, "1 present."  I'm pretty sure Santa can handle 1 present this year! : )  Ryder was just stoked to get his candy cane!

 

 

Ryder's 2nd Birthday & Thanksgiving!

 

 

Ryder's 2nd Birthday!  We had a big party at my parents house with all of my family and all of Christians family plus some of our friends.  Ryder had a lot of fun, got plenty of presents, and loves his family!

 

 

 

Ryder with his new tool bench!  He felt so grown up playing with his tools with dad was using his tools to put this together.

 

Ryder and his birthday cake.  He asked for a Nemo cake so I did the best I could. : )

 

Easting his yummy cake!!!

 

Thanksgiving this year was with the Thurgoods and we had it up at the cabin.  It was so much fun!

 

Snuggling with Aunt Annie watching Frosty the Snowman.

 

 

Being silly with Uncle Roo!

 

Our little family on a Thanksgiving ride!

 

The gang in our camo for the family pic this year.