Special Delivery

Santa came to our house early because Jace had to work Christmas and we didn't want him to miss out on the excitement. This year Jack got very good at opening presents and eating junk.. he caught onto the meaning of Christmas quickly.

It was a good year for Jack... he was spoiled by everyone in our family.

Like I said he caught on pretty fast.. the paper and box were just as cool as the presents!

Jack's new favorite word since he opened this toy is "Ball" he says it non stop.

Dad likes this toy as much as Jack does, they spent the day shooting hoops.

We turned him into a couch potato already! Grandma and Papa got him this cool kid sized Sesame Street couch.

One of Jack's favorite gifts is his new lion hat, he wears it all day long!

We want the fat Santa..

We took Jack to see Santa yesterday, it was perfect timing because the only person in line in front of us was a 20-something who wanted a pic with Santa. I thought Jack would either be A: scared to death of the big man in the suit or B: be super excited. He was neither. Santa made a moderate effort to ask Jack what he wants for Christmas but in typical Jack style when he isn't sure of someone he just ignored him and even closed his eyes at one point and pretended he wasn't there. I'll take that over a "I'm terrified of Santa" tantrum. I was a little disappointed that Santa wasn't more authentic this year.. with all the obesity problems in America I would think it wouldn't be too hard to find an appropriately rotund Santa. All in all it was very uneventful but I think we'll start a picture with Santa tradition (we did it last year too) Jace is less then thrilled about this idea, because of his job he sees old men whose job it is for kids to sit in their lap and he immediately thinks its criminal. Oh well, its Christmas and we can't have Christmas without Santa!

I think its Winter..

Its December 8th and we were just complaining a day or two ago that it didn't even feel like Winter because there was no serious snow... guess Mother Nature taught us a lesson. In the last two days we had over 12 inches of snow.. thats just a guess but after these pictures were taken it continued to snow for another 24 hrs. That should give you a good idea of what living in Utah is like!