thegoltrys: Merry 1st Christmas!!!!

Our 1st Christmas as a family of "3" was Lovely. In my previous post, I mentioned that we got to celebrate Christmas during Thanksgiving with the Grib side. That was too fun...watching sweet Justus's face when he got excited about something was just so cute!!!

We got together a little earlier in the month with the Kenan portion of the family, had chili, and had our "gift/stealing" exchange. It was a great time!

Justus and Uncle Aaron

Concentrating a little to hard...he sticks his tongue out like his daddy! :)

Christmas PJ's from Auntie Joy

Christmas eve we stayed home together, ate some yummy home-made soup, "web-casted" the Christmas Eve. service, opened our stockings, and played some canasta! We hope to keep this as "our tradition." Except in the future, we plan on actually "going" to church instead of just "watching" it. :) It's nice to stay home and relax during this "crazy" time of year! We had an awesome night!

Justus loves his daddy!!!

Love these two!!!

Justus watching church on the computer :)

On to Christmas day...

We got up, and I was so excited! So excited to watch Justus be excited! But he wasn't! :) HaHa maybe next year! I really don't want to put such a huge emphasis on "gifts." I want to emphasize "Jesus" during Christmas, but its hard, because there is just something so sweet about watching your baby be excited about something, and that's usually presents!!! I Gotta figure out how to make the "Christmas Story" fun and exciting each year!

Justus' 1st ornament...Yoda of course! :)

This silly toy...Before Christmas, I kept trying to hide it, and Justus kept finding it. I would find him in a room, sitting inside a box that I tried to "block" the toy with and spinning the little doodad. :) Was so excited to see him be able to play with it! He still loves it! :)

After our morning at home, we went over to Grandpa and Gami Goltrys. The kiddos opened gifts from GiGi, we hung around, relaxed, ate, and did gifts with the "Goltry Clan" in the evening. Justus did good, and had fun seeing all his extended family!

Loves his Gami...Loves his Smoothie

LOL...This is Uncle Nathan's gift for Justus. Buddy says "Justus can't read, so I drew a picture of us so he will know it's for him and from me" HaHaHa (Justus even has his red dot, and Nathan his patchy beard)...Love Uncle Nathan!!!!