Christmas day we were also able to get together with family. We went to Gaga and Daddo's to see what Santa had brought us. Also we enjoyed a wonderful breakfast of fruit, homemade cinnamon rolls (which Vicky got up at 5am to make), and breakfast casserole. Yummy!
Then we opened gifts. My battery on the camera was dieing so we only got a few.
Here are a few pictures of Hunter's first Christmas. Jessi and Tanner of course helped open his gift.
Here are the rest of us. The kids were great and very blessed to get so much again this year. Thanks to everyone. MJ also recieved a digital frame to put on his desk at work.
In MJ's family it is a tradition to go to his Aunt's house and have a traditional Mexican Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve. We have wonderful homemade tamales and then Auntie Rain makes Enchiladas and rice and beans from scratch for Jessica and I. This year they were just for me since Jessica went to Utah. They are soooo good!
Then we exchange gifts. It is a wonderful tradition, but we are getting so big we will have to see if we will be able to continue it in the years to come. Here are a few pictures of the event.
Hunter enjoyed being held by everyone. I got some pictures of him with Great Grandma Connie and Uncle Victor. Also with Victor holding Hunter and his second cousin Rochelle that is almost exactly 1 month older. She didn't like Hunter very much. She glared at him all night, even though she gave smiles to everyone else. I think she didn't like her Grandpa holding someone else.
Hunter actually really liked the elephant that was in his stocking. He stared at it and even pushed a few buttons. He also got a new "lovie" like our other kids. He seemed to like it while Daddo and he took a nap.
Tanner loved the toys he received. He had to wait his turn until Hunter and Shelly had opened all of their gifts and he was really patient. Also Jessi helped him with all his presents and he was a really good sport about it. He kept saying, "Tear, tear, tear" until it was opened, then he would pick up all the paper before he would look at the toy. It was pretty cute. His favorite thing was a "bug vacuum". He used it the rest of the night picking up scraps of paper and pine needles while the rest of us were opening our gifts.
Jessi also loved all her gifts. She is loving playing with the marble game that she got the next day and it is still out.
Since Jessica and Adam went to Utah this year we did Christmas early with them on Sunday. Chris and Melissa were able to join us too. Here are a few pictures.
Tanner got a cool Mickey race track. He played with it all night and slept with it too. Jessi helped him open it of course.
Jessi got some cute shirts, a few jewelry items and a piggy bank with a dollar in it. Tanner promptly took the dollar out and tried to figure out what it did.
Here are the Aunts and Uncles opening a few gifts.
This year we went down to Monterey with Chris and Melissa. We are hoping to make this a tradition. We had a great time at the aquarium and then went to Bubba Gumps for lunch. Here are a few pictures.
We had fun in the touch pools and other things to do at the aquarium. Melissa loved touching the ray, and we all loved looking at all the fun fish and other animals in the different tanks.
This is our attempt at taking a family picture while we waited for lunch.
We had a special visitor again this year that took time out of his busy schedule to come and visit us and give a little something to our little ones. We hope that he continues this tradition and that we are lucky enough to stay on his "good" list.
Hunter is now 13lbs and 24 inches long. He is starting to smile but is very stingy about giving them out. I'm sure that will change in the next week or two though. Daddy gets the most (he finally got his "Daddy's boy"). I tried to get a smile on film but couldn't get it yet but I did get a pretty good pouting face. Also he is starting to "talk" a lot more. He is sleeping better, 4-5 hours in a row most nights and eating every 2-4 hours during the day. Last night he went from 9:30pm-5:00am between feedings. I'm hoping that this is the start of a new trend! Only time will tell. He has also started to get his hands in his mouth more consistently, sucking on them sometimes instead of the Binky. I hope that that is also a trend.
Just for comparison. Here were the other kids stats at 2 months. Jessi was 13.4lbs and 23.5 inches long at 2.5 months. Tanner was 11.8lbs and 23 inches long at 2 months.
The other night we decided to make a gingerbread house. I didn't read the instructions before we started and it was supposed to set for a few hours after you put it together, but we did okay with the help of MJ and Gaga. Here are some pictures of the experience.
