Wow do I have major catching up to do! So this post is going to be a lot of pictures since it'll include Christmas, New Years and my birthday...but then I'll basically be caught up:) Here's Jake with Santa at our ward party:
My goal was to have a functioning kitchen by Christmas...we ended up getting the stove hooked up on the 23rd...my one and only appliance...but hey, that's all you really need to cook! So I was excited to be able to make sugar cookies with Jake the next day on Christmas Eve. (He's all about making silly faces for pictures now)
But don't get all excited that I became Suzy homemaker instantly (since our sink wasn't in working order yet I still had to wash dishes in the bathroom sink)...so for our Christmas Eve dinner we headed to IHOP. Jake had gotten a cold and he must have sneezed a million times during dinner--we cleared our section of the dining room after not too long:) Jake is pretty picky about a lot of foods...and I could not coax the kid to eat pancakes...I knew if he'd just try it he would love it. So I didn't let it go...I kept trying and trying and finally tricked him into taking a bite. Not a minute later he threw up onto his plate...guess I deserved that one...well, everyone who hadn't left from the sneezing, definitely left at that point!
We went home and opened our Christmas pj's...he loved his slippers and kept doing this shuffle around the floor like the Lightning McQueen cars were racing.
Marc got a Jazz tshirt as part of his pj's. And Marc had specifically gotten me pj pants I asked for. I saw them online and thought they were cute...and he'd gone to the store and gotten them. When I opened them, I realized they had a picture on them I hadn't noticed on the online picture. The brand is Skin and with that is a provocative sillhouette of a naked girl...not the kind of pants I want to be lounging in when the home teachers come over, eh? So I ended up trading them...I guess Marc saw no problem with it when he bought them though...hmmmm
We went to drive around and look at lights, but my sick boy fell asleep right away in the car...so he missed it. And he loves the lights!
Showing off our gingerbread house creation...which would have had twice as much candy if it weren't for a little boy on a sugar high
So back in October we were in JCPenney and Jake saw this blue race car and really wanted it. Throughout the month of November when I started prepping him for asking Santa for toys, all he would talk about was the blue race car. And still in December when he sat on Santa's lap...that's what he said he wanted. I realized I'd probably better go hunt this item down..thank goodness they still had it when I went. So that's what he had sitting out from Santa along with a tricycle (which he'd actually seen the tricycle in the trunk of my car by accident like a week earlier...luckily he's little enough I could still claim it was from Santa:)
Marc got him his own tools to help Daddy work on the house
Yay! Here's me Christmas morning making our traditional eggs benedict. It took longer than usual, because I had to keep walking back and forth between our bedroom and the kitchen looking for pans and ingredients. But I was still excited to be cooking in it.
Jake with his Geotrax
Chocolate smeared on his face...probably his favorite part of the day...having his own tube of M&M's
And Marc got me a t.v. for the kitchen! While this might look like a gift for me, he actually benefits greatly...cuz I do way more cooking with entertainment in the kitchen.
