A very Merry Christmas

Today we celebrated Christmas with Scott's family. We had a great day - the weather made it feel more like Christmas since we had snow flurries and it was super cold. Karsten always takes a few minutes to warm up to a new environment, so he watched Trent and Taylor play Wii for a bit before he was ready to get down and play. Once he was comfortable he was off and running - he wanted to follow the boys everywhere!

He was running behind Trent but stopped to give us a quick smile.


Taylor is sporting the Buzz Lightyear wings he got for his birthday. They were so cool - you pushed a button and they came up like this then when you pushed the button again, the wings folded up. Now if they could just fly...


We try to take family pictures each year - sometime we'll have to set up a tripod and take a picture of the entire family.

No chance of getting a smile out of Karsten, we'll consider it a win that he's looking at the camera!


Grandma and Grandpa with their grandkids.


Trent, Kelli, Taylor and David


The boys - happy we were able to get them to all look at the camera at once!


Karsten loves musical Christmas toys that sing and dance. Each time this adorable dog starts singing, Karsten will do a little dance.


Karsten wasn't too into cake and ice cream until Grandpa offered to share his ice cream with him. I'm not sure if Grandpa got much of his ice cream once Karsten started eating it. Yummm, mint chocolate chip!


We were celebrating Leland and Taylor's birthdays! Isn't this a cool cake - it was decorated for both Leland and Taylor.


Grandma and Grandpa got Karsten this adorable shirt that says "I Love Mom and Dad" - we loved the shirt and Karsten loved the size sticker on it. That sticker was more entertaining that his new toys!


Time to open presents!


David checking out his new radio, powered by the same battery that his drill uses. Pretty handy!


Karsten enjoyed watching the fishtank - Taylor was telling Karsten all about the fish.


Overall a great day, we have a very sleepy little boy - he went right to bed! Keeping up with the big boys is hard work! Merry Christmas everyone! I love this time of the year!