Merry Christmas!

 So this year Jeter sat on Santa's lap 3 times. the first time was the day after Thanksgiving, during Delta's light parade. which is pictured above-as you can tell-he was not pleased, and screamed and cried.

 the 2nd time jeter sat on santa's lap was during our ward Christmas party. He had the saddest lip quiver, but no crying!

 then the 3rd time was during story time at the library, and he sat with his cousin, and was a little worried, but did pretty good!

 above is after the first traumatic experience with Santa, at the light parade with all the pretty trees. below is our Christmas tree after it was decorated. Jeter helped alot with this, and we even left all the ornaments where they were because he didn't mess with them!

 during the business of Christmas, I almost always skip over our anniversary, which is December 13th. We have been married for 4 years now, and they really have been the best. I have so much happiness with chris, and now jeter it's hard to express that. So I don't want to skip over our anniversary, because we did celebrate it. we got tickets in SLC to the forgotten carols. which I had never seen before, and I really enjoyed it. we both had fun!

 Before we left to visit extended family, we had our own little Christmas eve and Christmas morning. Jeter got really excited when he opened his presents and saw an elmo DVD, he also got really excited over new markers, and he loves his block table! he got really excited Christmas eve for his new pjs, and so did dad. (because his were basketball shorts)

 We walked around temple square to look at the lights and went out to eat on our "christmas day"

 (above is Jeter in his new christmas church outfit)Friday the 21st, we headed to monticello, we spent about 5 days there doing lots of stuff like playing games, 2 family parties, driving looking for deer, chris went coyote hunting of coarse, and lots of fun with cousins and family. I love Christmas time-it really is so great to be with everyone you love.

 Grandpa with his 2 grandsons (the other one wasn't there yet)

 before dean got there, Kennedy seemed to take a liking to Jeter-I think secretly Jeter liked her back!

 finger painting with kennedy, I love her face.

decorating a ginger bread house with mom

 all 5 cousins tried to reinact the nativity, Jeter was a wise man bringing a gift to baby jesus. He did the worst out of the 5 kids, he's kind of anti-social. but "Mary" and "Joseph" did excellent jobs!

 real Christmas morning opening his stocking. I felt kind of bad because he'd already opened all our prsents to him earlier, so I felt like Christmas morning wasn't as exciting for Jeter as it could of been. but he did love getting the candy

 and of coarse this awesome basketball hoop-he's going to be a balla yet.

 Christmas day we left for Delta, this is us watching bat man on rob's new 65" 3D TV. it's pretty sweet, it's going up in thier new house. I couldn't believe it turned a regular movie into a 3D movie, technology these days is crazy!

 but of coarse the best christmas present we got was the newest memeber of the Jeffery family, our little copper boy! This is a full bred golden retriever puppy, he's really sweet and mellow for a puppy, and he's going to be a great dog. I kind of feel like I have two babies now, but it's okay. I hope everyone had a great christmas!