i asked jack to put on his snow boots. he said, "no, i'm going to wear my business shoes today." yeah, his "business shoes" were his black hi-tops.

merry christmas

so...these pictures are in the wrong order. but, whatever. you'll get the idea.

we had a fun christmas. it was the first christmas for all of us to have a family of our own. nate and i thought jack would be up at 4 wanting to open presents. he impressed us by not coming in until 6 o'clock. i loved hearing his little voice say, "mommy! nate! santa came!!"

jack is a little photographer. he loves taking pictures. i found a vtech camera that looked pretty neat but jack was like no way! he wanted a "real" camera. he picked out a red one that he thinks is pretty cool.

nate and jack figuring out the camera. jack keeps the camera in the car with us just in case he sees something "cool."

of course nate and i needed help opening our presents. jack was so nice and helped out.

jack is a funny kid. he has always been in to wrapping things up and pretending its his birthday or just giving himself a surprise. he decided to put some of his old toys in a box and wrap them up. he put it under the tree and actually left it there until christmas morning.





jacks dance



he does it when he's happy.

i loved this present. jack is really into drawing pictures of our family. after jack and nate wrapped my presents jack drew our family on the back of one of the boxes. it was my most favorite thing. i love that little boy.

scoping out the goods. notice the medals on the tree? (bottom right) well, it wouldn't be a christmas tree if jack didn't add his own decorations.

oh and his "night cap." that's what he calls it and it just makes me smile. there were a couple times he wouldn't go to bed unless he had it on. i had to sneak back in there and take it off because he sweats so bad.

oh my goodness, this is my most favorite christmas moment. nate put beef jerky in our stockings. jack grabbed it and excitedly shouted, "bacon!!! i got bacon, mommy!!!

the calm before the storm

jacks first christmas program

jack had his first christmas program at school. he was a king and even had a solo. his teacher said that she didn't intend on anyone having a solo but jack kept correcting her on the song...so she finally just asked him if he would like to have a solo and do it on his own. he was so proud.

notice the gap? yeah, that would be jackers hiding from me.

stink pot

jacks solo:

the chubby little snowman had a carrot nose

a long came a bunny and what do you suppose

the hungry little bunny, looking for his lunch

at the snowmans carrot nose

nibble nibble crunch!!

i know i know...

i'm so behind. hopefully, these pictures will

buy me some more time.

*jack made me stop the car right by our house so he could sing to the cows*

*i found jack going through a cabela's catalog while we were at my mom's. i asked him what he was doing...he said he was picking out what he wanted for christmas. considering this is jack that we're talking about....it's just weird.*

*the other night jack said he had a dream that humans had tails. he was a little concerned about it.*

*this is jack trying to tell me he couldn't go to church because he's had such a rough week."



*hmmmm, well he was just really bored on the crazy long drive home from nana's house.*

i'm going to try really hard to stay on top of blogging.

well, it comes as no surprise that jack is obsessed with my mom. but, its going to levels that even i think are ridiculous.

little boy: mom mom, whose tummy were you in when you were a baby?
me: nana's. cause she's my mom.
little boy: well whose tummy was i in when i was a baby?
me: mine. because I AM YOUR MOMMY!
little boy: (gasp!) i'm going to tell people that i was in nana's tummy because i love her.
me: okay. i think you're weird.

then last night i asked him to say the prayer at dinner. i reminded him to bless the food because otherwise he would just pray about nana.

heavenly father, thank you for this day.

thank you for nana and jack.

thank you for papa and reissy.

i want to live with nana so so bad.

thank you for our house.

thank you for our car.

thank you for nate's job.

i miss nana so much.

in the name of jesus christ, amen.

uh, jack, you forgot to bless the food...and mommy and nate. sheesh!!

fine.

bless the food.

bless mommy and nate.

i want to live with nana forever and ever. i want to. me, jack.

(i like how he said, "me, jack" like just in case jesus didn't know who was talking to him. i'm sure he just didn't want ther to be any confusion. i mean, can you imagine if reiss ended up living with nana?)

amen.

christmas tree farm

i can't lie

i was really excited to get a real tree.

i can only remember getting a real tree one time growing up. i thought i was the coolest thing. i was really excited to take jack.

jack walking up and down the rows trying to find the perfect tree.

we finally found the perfect for us.