Christmas

      Well Christmas this year was a good one!
  On the Sunday before we went over to Grandma and Grandpa Vaughan's house and it was so fun.  Grandpa read the story of Christ's birth and Dawson was baby Jesus.  We put him in a tiny crib that he was hanging out of.

          I love this picture.  Grandma loves Dawson so much!

     Christmas Eve we went to my mom's house and had yummy soup, opened our pj's, opened one gift, played a ton of games and watched It's a Wonderful Life.  It was perfect.

             Jensen and Dawson hanging out.
Even Sophie was excited for Santa to come!

Dawson opening his first Christmas gift!

 
    Christmas morning we went over to my mom's and played games and just hung out!
Jesse even ate an oyster for me!  here is his face......he hated it!  hahahah!

    Ha!  He said he almost threw up!  I love oysters!  It's tradition to have them!

 Matching pj's!

    My mom is funny, bunny ears!

                    Loved opening gifts

Than we went to Jesse's parent's house.  We hung out and had a delicious dinner!  We all got cute matching pj's made by Lori!

Anyways....it was a good Christmas.  Hope you all had a good one as well!!!!

Santa and Snow.....

 
   Dawson got to sit on Santa's lap!  Dawson was so cute, he just sat there and smiled.  He is such a happy kid!  Santa told him that he had been a good boy!  So he is coming to our house!

   So This morning I went swimming while Jesse watched Dawson.  I came home and found that Jesse had built him a huge snow slide!  We sent Dawson down and he loved it.  (I was a little worried)  It was cute though, I love seeing these two together.

 I caught a picture of him in the middle of going down the slide!  He was sucking on his sleeve.  Cute little guy!

  This is him after the rush....he smiled!

   This past weekend we went downtown to see the lights.  It was really fun.  Dawson loved it as well, even though he slept most of the time!

                                                           We love to see the temple!

                                               I absolutely love this picture of these two!

Family time

Such a happy little guy!  

Barb, Mel, Jade, my mom and I made ginger bread houses.  It was a really fun night.  We seriously worked on these houses for over two hours!  

This is mine....  They were all teasing me cuz I made a huge wreath in the back!  haha!

 THis is Barb's.  Hers was a train.  Very cute!

    This is Mel's.  We were teasing her and saying she cheated cuz hers was already put together, but hers really is amazing!

 This is Jade's!  Amazing!  She was so hyper and eating so much candy!  At the end she said, "sorry I ate so much candy mom."  She is adorable!

We had too much fun!  According to Jared, Mel got first place, I got second and Barb got third.  Than my mom gave us all a 1st place ribbon and $1.  haha! I love my Momma! 

Santa Baby!  Jesse and I were bored on night, and when that happens we usually have a photo shoot with baby.  :)  Ha ha!  I love that he is by a present!  Jesse and I have fun being parents!  Too much probably!  :)
      Christmas is soooooon!!!!!

Magical

     Christmas is a magical time....

Dawson loves the tree!  Jesse and I had fun decorating it and Dawson had fun pulling and staring at it.

 
   This past weekend my sisters and I took my mom on a sleigh ride!  It was for her birthday and she loved it!  Riding on a sleigh was one thing that was on her bucket list!  Check that one off Mom!

  This was before the ride.  We didn't tell her what we were doing.....it was a surprise.  Then a guy came up to us and said, "are you guys waiting for the sleigh ride?"  haha!  My mom was so excited that she started to cry!

There wasn't a ton of snow, but we still had fun.  We sang Jingle bells!

Then we ate a yummy dinner up the hill.

   The night was full of laughing, singing, talking about our favorite Christmas memories and creating new memories!

Happy Birthday Momma!  I love you!

Jesse had surgery last week and Dawson loved having him home to hang out for the day....

Jesse loved it too.  Jesse always says to me, "Isn't having a kid fun?!"  I say....."Yes, it's the best"  :)

Dawson 

Loves people,

drools all the time (like huge puddles!),

hates being alone,

rolled over for the first time,

Loves being swaddled,

Smiles constantly,

sucks on his hands,

loves his stuffed animal dog,

loves his binky,

hardly ever cries,

loves hanging out with Daddy,

likes to talk (squeel),

loves the stroller and car seat (he falls asleep fast!),

laughs hard at Mom,

Loves shopping with Mom (I'm sure Jesse loves that one),

Loves baby lotion (Jesse loves that one too, hahah!)

likes "the jungle",

Sleeps through the night,

this is our little guy.....

Dawson is our sweet little angel. 

We love him!