Christmas 2011!!!

        Christmas is the best time of year! This year was especially great and wonderful to have Emerson in our lives,  Christmas Day we woke up and celebrated with John's family.  It was a great year and we are very thankful to our Heavenly Father who sent his son Jesus Christ to us to be our Savior.  I don't know where we would be without the many blessings he has given us.

Had to add this pic, my Dad took it for his pone and Emerson was getting tired of posing.  So he started teasing and pulling faces.  He definetly knows how to work people.

This and the next picture are of Emerson and Grady, they are the first ones to wake up Christmas morning.  Not  to open gifts, but because it was time to eat.

I don't think Sammie was very happy about being woke up

Our Stockings

Emerson got snacks, a banana for breakfast, and the movie Chicken Little. Also a new collared shirt for Church.

This was Grady's M&M candy cane but Emerson wanted to chew on it....below, Emerson gets away with the candy cane and eventyally gets it open to get at the candy inside.

Saying, Good Morning to Uncle Spencer

He had more fun standing at the gate than opening presents.

This and the one below he didn't want anything to do with me or John so he chose to sit with Uncle Karl.

Opening his first Christmas gift with Uncle Karl

Grady wanted a turn to play with Emerson's truck

All the boys playing with Grady's Cookie Monster

Whiel Grady played with Emerson's Truck, he took the opportunity to play with Grady's.  So glad that they are still young enough to share.

So the next 4 pictures are a story: Karl's family had us this year for Christmas, they gave us some sugar, wheat, and chocolate chips.  Which I am very thankful for since I was running out of wheat for my bread making.  They also let Grady pick out a gift for Emerson and Grady picked out this cute little toy dog.  Well when Emerson opened it Grady remembered it and got upset and started crying because he thought he had picked it out for him, so cute.  So then Emerson decided that he had to join in and cry too. Eventually Emerson calmed down and enjoyed playing with it.  Grady even got a chance to have a turn.

This year we just did stocking gifts for each other $20 a piece.  I got John some candy, pistachios, and Nickelback's new CD.

He got me a Snickers Almond, Pepsi, and an Itunes card.

Christmas afternoon we headed back to my parents so they could give Emerson his gifts.

He finally got the point and started to rip the paper off

Bridger and Rylee were more than happy to show Emerson how to use his new toy