Merry Christmas!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We had a great 2nd Christmas with Alec! We ran all over the place, and Alec was a total trooper. We visited friends of Matt's family on X-mas eve, where there were a bunch of people and kids everywhere. We thought Alec might be a little shy, but he loved all the action and had a great time pushing his cousin Reid around in a wagon - they were practing for Nate and Renae's wedding in Feb. Then we headed to my mom's house, and spent the night there. Alec was thrilled to wake up to a house full of people and presents from Santa. The mini broom in his stocking proved to be one of his favorite toys. We spent the morning with my family and then headed to Matt's parents where we had dinner. Alec enjoyed another round of presents and getting to love up on his cousin - he has gotten quite good at giving hugs and kisses lately. After dinner, we went to Nate and Renae's house to play some games and have a few drinks! It was a great, and exhausting, two days. Alec got totally spoiled and has had an amazing time sorting through all of his new loot at our house. A few faves are: a swimming pool full of rubber balls (unfortunately, Brody likes this too), leggos, golf clubs, which he is using to hit several of his other new toys with, a mini 409 cleaning bottle, and of course - his broom! Thanks so much to everyone who thought of us and has been so kind and generous to Alec in his first 15 months of life!

Pushing Reid

New clubs

Watching dad drive his new remote control helicopter - they both love this!

Hugging Reid - Alec's hug is more of a head butt than an actual hug, but the intention is the same.

Miles in his new hiking pack.

Grammy and her magic stacking egg

Modeling his new snow boots.

My own luggage

Hugging Miles

The broom