Merry Christmas To All

Keaton's Christmas started at his dad's house on Christmas Eve. He got a very cool art/learning desk, a fun game where you shoot marbles and a Hotwheels playset with lots of cars. He loved playing with it all so much that it was hard to convice him to see the lights at the temple.

Keaton recognizes Santa and knows he goes with Christmas but didn't really get that Santa was going to bring him a present....however, I did put some things in a Santa stocking I borrowed from his uncle Houston, so then he said everything in the stocking was from Santa. Works for me. Here is a few pictures from Christmas morning. Not very many willing participants in the picture taking. Also, I think we spent so much time with the video camera the actual pictures were few and far between. I did get a new camera for Christmas so my next post will be from our vacation at Melissa's between Christmas and New Years and hopefully I'll have some fun photos.

Mom opening a gift from Nona.

Keaton loves this little tent. After he opened it he didn't want to come out and didn't understand he had more presents. He caught on quickly.

Delivering a gift to Uncle Houston

Gingerbread Houses

Instead of making gingerbread or using graham crackers I bought a kit. Really I thought it would be cheaper than buying all kids of different candies. The house was already put together and there were only 3 choices of candy and not really enough frosting to do the cool things they showed in the picture. But at 2 years old, it was enough for Keaton. He loved putting these little round candies on the roof but ate many of the gum drops.

Always a ham...we're constantly working on the smile. I hope by the time he's in school we manage to get a real "natural" smile. Usually he smiles with his eyes squinted. When we tell him to open his eyes then we end up with this funny smile. Gotta love it!

Christmas is coming!

Keaton has a very nice new outfit for Christmas and he's worn it the last two weeks to church. He looks so handsome and if you didn't think so, he'll tell you! Here are a few attempts at taking a nice picture of him. Then my batteries died...still hoping for that new camera for christmas.

This one would be my favorite, except if you make it larger you'll probably notice the long drool coming out of his mouth. He was being silly of course and started drooling. But in smaller size it looks nice.

Similar to the last one but more serious. He's just so big!

This is a cute little smirk.

This was his idea to sit down. I got two pictures this one with only a half smile and another that I didn't keep with his big smile, scrunchy face, eyes closed.

Last but not least, for comparison's sake here are two pics from last Christmas 07

Lights

Last week we went to the cul-de-sac in the Rancho Del Mar subdivision with all the lights. Keaton loved it. Lots of wow's and look!


Keaton wore these little gloves which he liked, but it was funny because his hands were always held out like this.

Ho Ho...Humbug

Keaton with Santa at our ward party....not a happy camper. He recognizes Santa and gets excited but doesn't want to be anywhere near him...unless Santa has candy...then he gets tough enough to get the candy, but he isn't real happy about it.

IRON GIRL

So lately I've been walking at 5 AM with some girls from my ward. Some of them who are very ambitious would like to do a 1/2 marathon soon. So to start us off we registered for a 5K. It was the AFLAC Iron Girl. It was fun to get up early in the morning on a Saturday and exercise with a bunch of other people...but I didn't love it. I mean I figure we already walk 2.5 miles each morning so walking 3.2 was not that big of a deal. Plus it was way crowded so if we tried to jog it was like morning rush hour stop and go traffic. Anyway, here's some pics of our day. We did get a nice goodie bag and a continental breakfast...and of course we all got a silver medal! Whoo Hoo.


Kelly, Amy, Deanna, Erin, Beth


The 5 AM Walkers!
When they called me the night before they said there are blue shirt and purple shirts one has 3/4 legnth sleeves and the other is long sleeved. I said it shouldn't be too cold I'll take the 3/4 sleeves...well they aren't really 3/4 and they failed to tell me I would be the only one in another color....but that's ok, we all coordinated anyway.



Dona, Kelly, Deanna, Amy, Erin, Beth, Betsy & girls

Cousins

Melissa was in town for Thanksgiving. We didn't get any pictures of Keaton and Braden together because both of our cameras are dying on us, but she did have these pictures from when she visited in early October. I stole them from her blog to show the two cousing together. This was a fun visit. I taught Braden how to sit up (just kidding but they had told me he couldn't stay up for very long and the first time I sat him up he stayed for about 10 minutes!) Braden also started scooting around by pushing with his toes. He's just so cute and they are very cute together as well.


Going for a big ride.


Keaton wishes Braden could play a little more with him.