White Christmas in Georgia!!

Sorry for the super posting delay...been busy lately but here it is for anyone that is still checking on us!

It's been 128 years but Georgia finally got a White Christmas!!

It snowed late afternoon and night on Christmas and it was so pretty! We got about an inch at Brigette's parents' house and got about 2 inches at our house. Snow stayed on the ground for several days, but didn't cause too many problems, so that was nice. We got MORE snow at the start of 2011...but more about that in another post!

Christmas Fun:




Santa:
Colton visited Santa twice this year. I wonder when they start noticing that Santa is in multiple places and doesn't look the same? The first visit was a lovely Santa at a Christmas Tree farm. He was very nice and was available for free pictures, which was even better! We asked Colton all day if he wanted to go see Santa, and he nodded yes (as he does usually whenever you ask him if he wants to do anything), so that was cute and he did very well sitting with Santa.


This poor Santa, he apparently doesn't know how to smile...he didn't smile last year either. Perhaps it was due to being at the daycare with so many kids? Colton obviously is concerned about sitting with this non-jolly Santa (though Colton actually did better in the photo shoot than any of his classmates!).


We cut down our first Christmas tree this year!! We had a great time playing outside and this farm also had a small animal area, which Colton loved and we got to hear him say GOBBLE GOBBLE again with the turkeys there!! :-)




This is the one!


Poppa gets some help to make sure he is doing it right!



The Y men carrying our Christmas tree! Colton is a good helper!


Hmm, maybe you should do this by yourself Poppa.


Colton really loved the Christmas tree and here he was laying down on the tree skirt and looking up and the pretty lights before we decorated. He did pretty good with not touching the tree for the most part, although the day we decorated it with ornaments he was sleeping and when he woke up it was decorated and he went to touch one and I nicely said, no we don't touch, just look and he cried so hard you would have thought someone hit the poor child!


He LOVED when we turned the lights on and would softly say, "WOW!" when we turned them on. That is one of his new things to say and it is SO cute! He enjoyed looking at the lights in the neighborhood at night on the houses and would be grinning ear to ear and saying, "WOW!" in amazement. Adoorable!


Celebrating Christmas with the Y family




There was mass hysteria with all the kids opening gifts at the same time. Colton spent a lot of time tearing up tissue paper. :-)




Why did we get toys when it was such fun to tear paper and get inside empty boxes?


He also enjoyed playing with the toys the other children got, thought not everyone wanted to share their new toys! This is little Charlotte's toy, she is too tiny to protest on Colton taking it!

Cousin Charlotte's First Christmas!!

Christmas with the L family!

The annual reading of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas:

Toys? Who needs toys when I can wear Papa's shoes?

Colton's pile of loot, which he did play with in addition to the boxes!


Just hanging out...



Dance with me Uncle Eric!


Christmas Cuteness!!



Uncle Eric gave Colton this cool fishing boat for the bathtub. Colton enjoyed playing with it but also enjoy its use as...


...a drinking device? He has done this numerous times since then...crazy kid!!


New wheels!!


Again with the boxes!!


Colton thinks he is hiding here


Cold day in Athens at Christmas concert!
Colton LOVED the concert and did great for the first HOUR but then it was too much to sit on someone's lap. He seemed amazed by the music and singing, pointing excitedly and then clapping with joy. He thought it was super cool when the other people around us would also clap and would laugh out loud with his sweet toddler joy.


Styling!!


Tubing fun!!


No, we didn't get that much snow. :-) Justin, Brigette and Brigette's brother, Eric, went snow tubing at Snow Mountain at Stone Mountain Park. It was great and going early in the morning allowed us to get in more runs than the lazy folks that came later in the day. :-) We'll take Colton next year so he can play in the kids' snow area.



Hope you are all having a great start to your New Year!!