Christmas!

We had a pretty great Christmas!  We did some fun things as a family, and we have loved having a little one around to celebrate!  It made us feel like kids again! Love it!  

On Christmas Adam, we went to church and Ryker learned about the Christmas Story and Baby Jesus.  He even made his own little Baby Jesus, too.  I wish I hadn't wrote his name above the head because now it looks like it's supposed to be baby Ryker.  He also made Mommy a Christmas card with a sheep made out of a cotton ball.  After church, we made cookies to give out.  We went to a couple church friends' houses and sang Christmas carols, and we gave the rest of our cookies away to family on Christmas Eve.

On Christmas Eve morning, Joe took us to Lynch park.  It is a beautiful park right next to the water.  Ryker really enjoyed playing on the playground and especially on the big kid playground where he slid on the huge tunnel slide.  You should have seen his face.  It was priceless.  Since it is so close to the water, it gets pretty windy, and it was cold, so we went over to see the water and stand in the sun.  It was beautiful!  Ryker wanted to get into the water, too.  That evening Joe took me to one of my favorite places BWW to eat.  Ryker got to run around the mall a little bit after, which he loves to do.  When we got home we visited with family and Ryker got a couple gifts from second cousins.  Afterwards, Joe, Ryker, and I opened our Christmas Eve jammies!

This was supposed to be a family pic in jammies, but oh well! :)

We woke up Christmas morning to a beautiful white snowfall.  A white Christmas!  It was so nice!  We headed downstairs (after the baby got up at almost 9, haha) and opened our Christmas stockings.  After that, we played around with the stuffers and hung out until Joe's siblings and their spouses/fiances came over at noon.  We had a delicious Christmas (Thanksgiving) lunch/dinner!  After that, we opened presents!  All the siblings and significant others did a Secret Santa this year to make it cheaper and easier for everyone.  Joe had his brother Rick and I had Rick's fiance (coincidence?!)  Joe got Rick a nice soft sweat shirt from Old Navy (Because Rick has lost over 130 pounds and gets cold now!)  and I got Katie a plaque with hooks that says Swim.Bike.Run.   She is a big exerciser and has done so many races!  She just did a half iron man back in September!!!  Ryker got some great gifts too!  We all had a wonderful time as a family!  Our little family got a new plasma screen tv along with the wii u and some mario games for our family gift!  This was the first year we got a family gift, and it has been fun to play together.  We got it on black friday as a last minute idea.  It's been awesome!

 Ryker and all his stocking loot.  He looks tired here, huh?

 Yummy Christmas cookie!

 Ryker and his Grampy adore each other, so he spent most of his time on Grampy's lap opening gifts. :)

 Baby Girl got a couple of gifts too!

 Ryker was more interested in making sure that all the wrapping paper got put into the trash barrel.  Silly boy!  I think that was Sesame Street wrapping paper.  His all time fave!

Ryker's big present was his car!  He wanted Daddy to get that thing right out!  Then he found out that we had to build it first! haha

Here are a few videos from Christmas Day:

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! And a Happy New Year!