Merry Christmas

We've been talking about "HoHo" - what Graham calls Santa - since we put up the Christmas tree several weeks ago. Before the holiday we wanted to take G to meet him knowing that it would either go really good or really bad. How do you think it went?

Well, he didn't love sitting on Santa's lap but he continues to talk and be excited about him so, I guess he's still a fan.

Santa visited our house the night before Christmas Eve this year. Since we were traveling to my Grandparents in Iowa on Christmas day, I wanted Graham to be able to spend a whole day playing with his new toys. So, when we got home from work on the 23rd, we baked - if you call putting Toll House dough in the oven baking - cookies for Santa and put them out by the fireplace with milk. When Graham woke up the next morning, he was so excited to see his new basketball hoop and presents under the tree. :) We even made Rudolph pancakes for breakfast that morning.

"Baking" cookies for Santa

Coming downstairs after Santa's visit to our house 

He's an excited little boy! :)

Graham is a HUGE fan of Nemo - now he can watch more than
just the last half hour of the movie that we DVR-ed 

Playing with the tractor from "Jepp"

A couple (of the many) b-ball action shots

Rudolph pancake

We ran a couple errands during the day on Christmas Eve, relaxed and played. And, Megan (aka - Mimi) spent the whole day with us - Bonus! That night we went to dinner at Bonefish and Graham was such a good boy which made the dinner that much more enjoyable!

On Christmas day, we headed up to Bedford, IA to spend the day with all of the Cooper's at my Grandparent's house. It was a full house and so great to see everyone. Unfortunately, I was horrible with the camera that day and only got one picture of Graham opening up presents.

Overall, we had an amazing holiday. I love love love the entire holiday season but I've never experienced a Christmas quite like this one. The holiday has jumped to an entire new level with our sweet little boy. We truly are blessed!