Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Friday, March 6, 2015

Christmas Recap



[Still not too late to talk about Christmas right?] The picture above was our Christmas card. It took about 5 million pictures to get 1 that looked okay to use. I think it turned out nice.. but man, is it hard to capture a moving target on camera! Below is a slideshow of everything we tried. The moose was going to be a last resort.



Before my family arrived, we got the decor ready. We put Emma in her snowsuit for the first time since it was so cold out! She was less than impressed. 


But she looked pretty cozy in her car seat!



We put her in the snowsuit because we usually spend an hour walking around the nursery looking for a tree. We spent all of 5 minutes picking it out this year. :| She was a little freaked out when we loaded it up.


She's okay! :)


Back at home, Ian worked on getting the lights up...


Emma seemed to enjoy the tree. Thankfully for most of the time it was up, she seemed slightly scared of it. :)


I made this cool video using the Kringle app. Santa visit our house!!


On Christmas Day, Emma was little more interested in it...


...but also a little tired. :)


Ian and Em got to work on their stockings.





By far, the cutest thing was her inspecting her big gift. Adorable!





Later that day, Pops turned Emma into a present. :P


Emma enjoyed her gift from Pops and Mamie - an Elephant Car! :)





She then "helped" Pops put together his new popcorn machine.



Here's Ian and Emma hanging out during the Matheson Family Christmas Party.


We got to meet Ian's Cousin's new baby, Noah. Emma had a knack for making him cry. :P



Christmas 2014 was a wonderful time. We got a ton of gifts - almost all of them games. :D I got to spend time with my family which I am always super thankful for. We visited with Ian's extended family. It was really nice. Christmas is different when you have kids... but just seeing Emma light up looking into the bag makes me realize how much fun the future will be! 


Friday, February 27, 2015

Christmas With My Family

It's never too late to write about how Christmas went, is it? :) Before my family came up, my mom shipped gifts to us ahead of time. Ian passed on his "psycho elf" trait to Emma. She made sure we didn't open the boxes without getting confirmation from G-Ma. :P


When G-Ma arrived, Emma and I surprised her at the airport. (I'll skip over the part where Emma and I spent 3+ hours wandering around the arrivals section while G-Ma's plane was delayed!)



Lots of gifts! Santa was good to us this year... the boys were excited. :) 




I made Rice Krispies. Multiple times. There was controversy with the first batch as I added vanilla - apparently not ok with some people. So... because my family is.. my family.. We did a taste test! One batch had vanilla.. one did not. Hey guess what? THE ONE WITH VANILLA WON!!! 


Max helping Uncle Ian play his game.


Speaking of Max... I wonder if this is the reason the Seahawks lost..... :\


We visited the Moose (Moose Winooski's). Cooper tried on the hat!


I couldn't pick just one.. so here are 3 very cute pictures of Emma.




There are more pictures but unfortunately I didn't get them from my sister yet. Christmas 2015 is in Virginia. Can't wait!