Liam's first Christmas

Well, it was Liam's first Christmas, and it was just lovely :-).

So this year we made and decorated gingerbread cookies to give out, though Scott ate the whole first batch before we could decorate, so I had to make another one! Silly boy. 

 

Liam and I baked them, Scott helped decorate. :-)

We watched a Christmas movie while decorating. 

I had my office Christmas Party, at the Prairie Band Casino resort, which was a lot of fun. :-)

We raised enough money to have our CFO (I think that's his title...) eat a spoonful of mayonnaise. 

And to have our CEO stand up and yodel for one whole minuet. :-)

Christmas Eve we dropped off gifts to the family we "adopted" through the Christmas Bureau. The Christmas Bureau is a program run through my work. Basically what the Christmas Bureau is, is an "adoption agency" for families who can't afford Christmas or are going through a rough time. So families sign up to be "adopted" and people either adopt them, buy gifts, and deliver the gifts to the family themselves;  or they donate money to the Christmas Bureau so someone else can adopt a family and buy the gifts. We didn't have any extra money but we wanted to help out. So we volunteered to shop and deliver the gifts to a family. Wow, what a humbling experience. This poor woman lost her job, was kicked out of her home so now she was living in a rotting out old house in a bad neighborhood, her adult son moved back in with her with his son, whom he just got custody of, and she had 2 teenage daughters. They seemed extremely grateful, and I'm glad we were able to help in some small way. I felt extremely humbled-- I thought we've had it a little rough and are barely making it by, but we actually have been so extremely blessed and I need to be more grateful.

After playing "Santa", we went to dinner at a Chinese buffet that Scott's been wanting to try.

 Then we drove around and looked at the Christmas light displays in Potwin.

And we finished the night off with family time and a Christmas movie.

Cute lil' Liam

Liam loves the Christmas tree

Christmas morning I was woken up early. I honestly thought I wouldn't have to worry about the early morning Christmases until Liam was a little older, but I forgot about Scott. It was adorable being woken up by my two excited boys. :-)

Scott and Liam found the pickle first, so they got to pick the first present. :-)

Stockings! I still need to make Liam's stocking...

Liam's first gift.

My mom made Liam this adorable sweater. He looks so handsome in it. (bad lighting in the pic though)

That night Liam fell asleep so fast and stayed asleep most of the night! Seriously "Tranquil Turtle" was worth every penny. :-)

Looking forward to seeing my siblings for New Years.