Christmas!

This was our first Christmas as a family of 5! Will took some time off, and it was so nice to be together as a family. We certainly missed our annual trip to see grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. But it would have been pretty difficult to do this year.

We opened presents with my mom and Aunt Hill while they were in town. It was wonderful to have family open presents with us!

I got to cuddle with Seth while gifts were opened.

Joel slept while we opened gifts.

One of Nathaniel's favorite gifts - two little twin sock monkey brothers for Buford (Nathaniel's sock monkey).

As you can tell, they were a hit. The sock monkey brothers have had many adventures together already.

Seth noticing the animals above him for the first time.

These pictures are from Christmas Eve. Nathaniel wearing a sweater my Uncle Les gave him last year. All 5 of us went to the Christmas Eve service at church. The first 35 minutes of the service went great. Then we had to take all 3 boys out because they were crying! Seth, Nathaniel and Daddy went back in and I stayed with Joel in the cry room for the last little bit.

 

The little boys ready for church. These will also serve as 3 month pictures. :) Joel is on the left.

Beth finally got to meet the little boys over the break.

Izzy and Joel

These pictures are from Christmas morning. Nathaniel had a blast opening presents from Neena and Pops and Aunt Wendy and Uncle Greg and others.

His Thomas raincoat, which has worked perfectly since almost all of January has been rainy. I wish I had gotten more pictures of us opening gifts, but with 2 adults, 2 babies and Nathaniel we didn't really have a chance.

Seth driving on his (and Joel's) new playmat from Neena.

Nathaniel and Joel

This last one was Nathaniel's shadow show. He loves doing shows for Will, me and the babies. We've also had some puppet shows. Nathaniel is great at making the babies smile or laugh. He loves them so much, and the feeling is mutual. Hope your Christmas was as blessed as ours!