I love spending time with family during the holidays but I have to say, sometimes I feel like I have run a marathon by the time it is all over! (Not that I ever have run a marathon but the way I imagine it feeling...you get the idea) There are so many wonderful things about having both sides of our family here in the valley (babysitters, babysitters and more babysitters!) but it gets a little bit ridiculous when you try to attend all of the Christmas festivities. However, I still love it and enjoyed it even more this year with Caden. I do have a confession, however, I did purchase toys that I believed would be fun for Caden as well as for myself... I know, I'm a terrible mother but I am so dang sick of his old toys! Here are a few pics from our Christmas... most of which did not occur in our home.
This is mom showing Caden how cool his new toys are... naturally he only wanted to play with the old ones.
This is Christmas eve with my side of the family. When we were growing up my mom always bought us matching pajamas, but I guess she decided to allow her grandchildren to be individuals... it definitely doesn't make for cute matchy matchy pictures. Oh well, these kids are cute enough!
Tom's family always has a sleepover on Christmas eve eve where they stay up all night playing games. This is us the next morning on our way to his extended family breakfast... the smiles are fake, we were so dang tired! I love Caden's Christmas outfit (Tom will kill me for using that word...apparently boys don't wear outfits)-he looks so handsome.
This is Caden on Christmas eve eve with his new SpongeBob SquarePants pajamas. I think bright yellow is totally his color!
Caden has entered the stage of self-feeding. I do like the fact that he will sit in his high chair and eat for a long time (thus I am able to make dinner). I do not like the fact that most of the food ends up on the floor, on his clothes and deep in the crevices of his high chair. They really need to invent a self-cleaning high chair. I would fork out the big bucks for it! I love this picture because it shows his nicely spaced front teeth. (He just cut his 8th tooth by the way)
Wrestling with Daddy! Next to Mom and Dad chasing each other around the house with Caden in their arms... this is probably Caden's favorite thing. 
Caden usually comes out victorious. It helps that Mom is constantly saying "be careful! not so rough!"
Ok, this isn't very adventurous but thank heavens for naps. He is getting better and better at taking them. 
