Merry Christmas

We had a very nice Christmas this year. Larry and I had to work so we stayed in Reno and celebrated with just the three of us. Even though we were in Reno without family, we were able to skype with some of the grandparents and that made it seem almost like we were with those we did it with. Jackson is starting to understand the whole unwrapping of gifts and a little about Santa, or as he calls him "Hanta." When he woke up on Christmas morning and saw the living room full of presents he said with a bit of a giggle "woooh." He still doesn't understand that he needs to keep opening gifts instead of opening and playing with all the toys right away. He also got a car that he did not want to get out of so he unwrapped a lot of his presents from the seat of his car. I can't wait to see how the whole process changes each year.

I will try to post pics when I can. I got a new camera and took all the pictures in RAW form like the guy taught me on the CD that came with it but now it doesn't want to download the pics. We have converted them to JPEG but they are still not downloading. ERRR.

Santa

We went to visit Santa on Sunday. There were only three families there since the roads are still a little icy. But we braved the storm and made it in to see the big man. Jackson has been saying Santa lately but we aren't really sure where he learned about him since we don't really talk about him. Probably at daycare...because that's where we think he learns everything we didn't teach him. Anyway, Jack was very shy and didn't want to look at Santa or really anyone else. The picture that we got that was the best was one we took. Oh well. At least there were no tears and Jackson got his candy cane. I told Santa for him that he wants anything Choo-Choo. I'm sure Jackson appreciated that.

Mall Photo:



Larry's Photo: (good job Lar)

First Winter Storm 2009

So it has been snowing here since afternoon yesterday and it is still going strong. We have gone out in it a few times and Jackson is not sure what to think of it. He wants to go out, he wants to touch it but then after a few minutes he is done. We took him out on a sled last night and he was giggling and saying "weee." It was very cute. Then today we walked to the store to get some lunch and he lasted only a few steps and then I carried him the rest of the way. It sounds like the snow is here to stay for a while so we'll keep trying and see if he starts enjoying it a little more once it stops snowing so hard.

Larry digging out the car this morning.

Jackson watching all the action in the warm house with his breakfast.

All geared up for our walk.

Oh Christmas Tree

We were suppose to go up to Squaw and get a tree with some friends, but on our one day we have off together, the highway was shut down because of snow conditions. I guess it is a total white out up there. It is snowing here and that helps us get into the Christmas spirit as we put up our little fake tree. Here are some pics of the event with our little helper.

Untangling the mess.


Jackson trying to blow out the lights on the tree.


Santa's little helper.


A family picture once we were done.

New Baby Jelly Beans Website

We are now updating everyone about the new baby on our new baby jelly beans website. Here is the link:
http://www.babyjellybeans.com/web/do/site/home?ID=578484
We will still update here on other family adventures.

New York

We recently went to New York for a psychology conference. Well Larry had a conference and the rest of us went along for the New York experience. We invited Grandma Trudy along with us to help is with Jackson and enjoy the city with us. We had a great time discovering the sites and sounds...well sort of. It is so noisy and busy there and we tried to add to that as much as we could!