Marq celebrated his big birthday this year by spending a week in St. George. His parents were nice enough to let us and some friends stay in their house. 
We had a great time. My brother and his family came down for a few days. We played and relaxed and had a great time!
Marq's friend Mike came down on his birthday so they got to go for a nice bike ride while I made dinner and a birthday cake at the house. 
Happy Birthday Marq! We love you so very, very much!!! Here's to growing old together :)
Ledger's Aunt Kim sent him that adorable hat! What a stud!!!
We got to watch Marq's mom open her surprise airline tickets to go visit her daughter in Portland the next day! She was SO happy!!!! 
Ledger got lots of great gifts and loved spending time with the family. It was a good day.
I hope everyone had a very special Christmas. We sure did!
He wasn't quite sure what was going on but he loved all the toys.I need to post the video of him doing laps around our house behind is new CAT walker. He loves pushing it and loves the independence it gives him. Marq has fun pushing him around the house and plowing things over, "watch out doggies!"
My goal this year was to not buy any disposable Christmas wrapping. I always feel so bad about the amount of waste Christmas brings. I did use some that I had from past years for other people's gifts but all of our wrapping was reusable. I made fabric bags for most of our gifts and I was really happy with how they turned out.
I am so thankful this year for all that I have. It is nice to give/get nice gifts but this year I am very aware of all the love and family that surrounds us. Some friends of ours made us some awesome bread, Noelle made us some fantastic syrup, Tahna made me a wall hanging, Kim gave us a photo shoot... those are the gifts that I love! They are personal, thoughtful and much appreciated. Merry Christmas to all my friends and family. Thank you for being a part of our lives and sharing your love with us.
This year my sisters baby, Sawyer played the baby Jesus and my other niece and nephew were Mary and the wisemen. Luckily grandma kept it short and sweet this year for the short attention spans. 
Ledger loves to rub Uncle Nick's head. He's like a Buddha.
My family is large and we are all really loud. The gift opening was a bit of a tornado and I don't think Ledger quite knew what to think about all the noise, action, gifts & wrapping paper. We all got spoiled!
We Skyped my sister and her family in Texas and were able to open a few gifts together and tell them Merry Christmas.
We came home that evening and got Ledger to bed around 9 pm. Santa stopped at our house early and was gone by 10pm so we got to curl up on the couch and watch a Christmas movie while everyone else was at home trying to get their kids to go to bed :)
