Christmas 2014 ~ Christmas Morning and Dinner

This is a bit out of order because this photo was actually taken late on Christmas Eve but it fits better with this post :)

Uncle Ron's tree with most of the presents (just missing the St. Martin family's presents)

And a little Christmas Eve selfie too

He finally woke up around 9 so we could finally get our morning started! 

Time to open the stockings...in our family we wrap everything in the stocking to make it a bit more fun...what do you do with yours?

New tree ornaments for our collection

And a new Ninja Turtles electric toothbrush (his first one ever!)

And their first Pez dispensers too! 

The funny thing was that they loved this M&M light up toy that I got in my stocking the best

Auntie Karen and Brody

Our attempts at a Christmas morning family photo

This one is the better one of the two

Time for James to open his present from Santa

Can you tell he was excited?  

Now Jordan is opening his present from Santa

The toy was too big to assemble right away but we did open up a car for him to play with. This is all he wanted to do, lay in the middle of the floor and push it around.

Ben with his cool new Lego sorter 

Jordan's favorite present, his new toy vacuum cleaner

More Ninja turtles for James

For anyone who doesn't know my cousin Brody....he will actually wear that pink golf shirt, and probably with his pink golf pants! 

Cute photo

James's new race car set from Uncle Ron

Great new photo of me and my Mama

And a great one of James and Nana

Opening the cars that came with his new car mat

He wanted to use it as a hockey stick instead

Clearly we are looking at Auntie Karen instead of at our camera

Jordie's new car holder toy from Uncle Ron

And Beej opening his present from Uncle Ron too! 

Helping Nana open her presents

The one present I helped the boys open...their set of Paw Patrol cars from Mommy and Daddy

They were definitely a hit

Now it's my turn to open my present from my boys

It's a new watch! I've needed one for a long time and the one Jimmy chose is beautiful!

James got a new Canucks jersey from Nana and Papa

An awesome animal book from Auntie Carol and Uncle Garry

I've never seen a shoe that size in my life before. Special ordered size 17 golf shoes. 

He was tired and just wanted to sit with his Papa

The theme was definitely turtles this year

Giving his brother a kiss and saying thank you for his new outfits and his 

Planes Fire and Rescue movie

Playing with his new phone toy from Nana and Papa

Time for yummy wife saver breakfast! My favorite part of Christmas morning.

A few random photos of Jordan

And look....finally a smile out of him! 

This one is much more natural looking

And a great one of James too! 

The best one of the bunch that I took attempting to get one of their matching PJ's

Another great one of James.

Cleaning up the basement with his new vacuum

Close up photo of the new Paw Patrol toys

All dressed up for Christmas dinner and he sneaked off to the front hall and put on his boots and hat

A new favorite photo of me and Jordie

Not a great one, but it's alright! 

Jordie was done with photos at this point! 

Cute one of me and hubby

hehehehe....for some reason Jordie had decided he wanted his hands down the front of his overalls and wouldn't take them out

Unless it was to put his hands down Uncle Ben's shirt instead

Auntie Karen and Uncle Bruno. Poor Brody got a bad headache around this time and spent all night in bed and missed dinner.

Of course another Jordie on Papa's shoulder photo

Ben & Bruno

Ronnie and his sisters

And their spouses

Me and my brother

And a couple attempts at a great J&J photo

Handsome boys

My arm looks funny but Jim looks cute

I love that we are finally past the awkward smile phase it seems

This one is a great photo

hahahahha....but this one is much better! 

Poor Jordie was too tired to make it to dinner so he ate before us all and then went to bed

This one is really cute

Cute selfie of me and James before supper

He was quickly losing it so he had a quick bath and went to bed at 6:30.

Overall we had a wonderful Christmas Day, even if Jordan was sick. It was a quiet day with naps, board games, Playstation and a wonderful dinner cooked by my Mom! 

Christmas 2014 ~ Hanging out at Uncle Ron's house and Christmas Eve

Within a day he was definitely warming up to this Uncle Ron guy!

But he was also sick and kinda cranky too

Had a great pizza dinner and visit with Lorna and her two little ones, Carlie and Jayden

An attempt to get a photo of the 4 kids...didn't work out so good you can see!

It was funny how much Jordie just loved Carlie...he isn't usually like this with people he just meets but we are learning that with other kids he tends to gravitate to them.

Poor little guy was so sick too that he clearly just liked the attention

She kept picking him up and carrying him around

He spotted Nana eating Cheerios and being the total mooch that he is he started begging for it immediately...and she's a sucker so she gave in!

hehehehehe....this is his way of letting you know that he would like some of what you are eating

And the bowl was gone

My poor little guy was so lethargic this day and couldn't sleep and didn't want to do anything but sit and watch Paw Patrol

That same night we were at the ER with him getting him checked out.

The next morning Nana and Papa were trying to get him to eat something so he could take his antibiotics. He wouldn't eat anything unless these two were feeding it to him because he wasn't really hungry. Usually he has a huge appetite, but the week we were away he actually ate very little.

When else do you get to sit on the counter to eat? He wouldn't eat anything unless
encouraged to do so.

He did love Papa's dried fruit though and any chance he got to get some of that he was all over it!

And here is about 20 minutes after that morning meal at 10am. Back in Papa's arms and being walked around the kitchen island. He was so tired and feel asleep this day at 10:30 and slept until almost 2.

See...he just wanted to lay down and go to sleep. It was a wonder we actually 

kept him awake until 10:30.

Meanwhile....James was having a great time playing some Playstation with Daddy

These two are just too cute

Seriously my new favorite photo of James

It wasn't all bad, here is a happy Jordie on Christmas Eve after his nap and before dinner at Auntie Karen and Uncle Bruno's house.

He loved playing with Brody's old cars

New PJ's on the head, a family tradition passed on to the new generation.

And Jordie too but he was sound asleep that night by 7pm

He was really passed out!

James insisted that Uncle Ron had to put out Rudolph's carrot and I had to pour the milk.

Taking it over to the table...and yes we did give Santa more than just one cookie!