Merry Christmas!

A Merry Early Christmas!

Since we will be visiting family on Christmas day, and we don't want to lug the presents back and forth, we decided to have our family Christmas celebration this morning. Here are a few pictures. I also took some video, but I am feeling a little too lazy at the moment to upload that.

Corbin's favorite present was definitely the dump truck. It has stacking blocks in it that he can play with, and he loves pushing the truck around the house.

Here Corbin is trying on his new snow boots. He insisted on wearing them for at least an hour. He loves any kind of shoe.

Trying on his snow outfit. It's a little big, but he'll grow into it. The coat is reversible, which makes it pretty dang cool.

This last picture doesn't have anything to do with Christmas. This afternoon, Corbin was playing with a trash can (don't worry, it was clean). He kept putting it over his head, which resulted in some fun static filled hair.

santa

We went to our ward Christmas party today, and Corbin sat on Santa's lap for the first time. He liked looking and pointing at Santa, and he kept trying to run up to him while we were waiting in line. But he wasn't too excited when I put him on Santa's lap. It also didn't really help that it was 1 1/2 hours past his bedtime.

"Who is this strange man?! I want to get out of here!"

"The candy cane is pretty cool, but I'm still not too sure I want to be here..."

It's freezing outside!

It is 8:50 a.m. and my computer says that it is -3 degrees outside right now. I was just looking at the Denver Post, and it said that this morning at 2:30 a.m. Denver International Airport was -19 degrees!!!

I think today is going to be a stay at home and drink hot chocolate kind of a day.

The best present of all...

...is my little man Corbin!

This picture cracks me up. I told Corbin to put the hat on, and this is what he came up with. What a funny kid!

We took our Christmas card picture today (in the freezing cold!!!!) This isn't the one we picked for the card. I want that one to be a surprise.

P.S. Does anyone know why only some of my pictures can be clicked on to make them larger? How do I fix it so that they can all be enlarged?

music to my ears

We found a kazoo while we were unpacking our Christmas decorations. Corbin has had so much fun playing with it!

snow much fun

Today Corbin played in the snow for the first time. While he was walking around the yard, he fell onto his hands. His mittens got covered in snow, and he kept trying to wipe the snow off on his jacket. It was pretty funny. After that Corbin fell on his bum, and at first he really did not like sitting in the snow. But after a few minutes Corbin figured out that it was kind of fun to shovel the snow with his hands and then dump it over his legs.

more words

Corbin can now say:
duck: stuck
dow: down
guy-eh: quiet (Corbin repeats it after I say "quiet" to Izzy when she barks. He usually follows it up by running over to Izzy and saying "no! no!")
low: hello (Corbin likes to hold his phone to his shoulder, and he says "low? low?" and then he talks a bunch of gibberish, followed by a really loud fake laugh. It's sooo funny! And then he will say "bye-bye" and close the phone)
dane do: thank you (He has been saying this one for a while, I forgot to put it in the last word post.)
I low lu: I love you
gonk: bonk (he says this one when he falls down or bumps into something)

The week thus far...

I got my Christmas present in the mail on Tuesday. A point and shoot digital camera. I haven't had much time to play around with it, but so far I am really happy with it. I still need to buy a new lens for my nice SLR camera, but I really wanted a small camera that would be easy to tote around.

Corbin has been sick again. Poor kiddo. I think the worst is over though.
A friend of mine invited me to join a craft exchange where we each choose a holiday, then make 8 identical crafts to exchange. I decided to do the 4th of July. I got the idea for the star from Nichole's blog.

And last, but not least, I found these drawings inside my scriptures the other day, and I decided to take some pictures of them with my new fancy schmancy camera. I thought they were pretty funny.

Our holiday weekend!

We have had a really fun Thanksgiving weekend. I am sad that it has gone by so quickly! On Wednesday our friends the Farnwsorths (thanks again, you guys!) babysat Corbin so that we could go to the temple. When we got home that afternoon, I was cleaning up in the front room, and I could hear Corbin playing with the door to Izzy's crate. That's nothing new, he likes to open and shut the door. When I went into the kitchen to check on him, I saw that Corbin discovered a new play area!


It totally grossed me out to see Corbin in the dog crate, but I couldn't take him out when it made him so happy.

On Thanksgiving we had just planned to hang out at home and eat a nice dinner. Well, at about 9 a.m. a family from our ward called to invite us over for Thanksgiving dinner. We were so surprised, and were very happy to accept the offer.

On Friday we drove up to Estes park in the afternoon. We met up with our friends Peter and Jennifer and their son Dakota. It was pretty cold, so we got some hot chocolate and then watched their lighted Christmas parade.



Saturday, we brought up all the Christmas boxes from the crawl space. I also cooked my first turkey. I am really proud of how great it turned out.

Corbin loved going through all the Christmas boxes with us. I am happy to say that so far he hasn't tried to pull the tree down. We'll see how well he does once we get the ornaments on the tree. Corbin helped me put up a window-cling nativity that I bought last year. This is how it turned out. He likes to stack all the pieces on top of one another. When I separate them, he places them right back on top of each other. Funny guy.

Corbin found an mp3 player, and so Clark turned it on and helped Corbin put on the headphones.