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