Merry Christmas!

CHRISTMAS EVE at the Novek's:

Jeremy's new fishing pole

Hooray! Edward the train!

Bear got a brand new bag of tennis balls for Christmas - can you tell he is excited? He's staring at them hoping someone will throw one for him.

Grandpa taught Evan how to swashbuckle with the wrapping paper tubes.

CHRISTMAS MORNING:

Evan got a wooden train set from Mommy and Daddy (although he thought it was from Santa, we'll let the big guy take credit for it this year.)

Evan concentrating on "cutting" some wooden fruit.

His favorite thing of all? The box of raisins he found in his stocking.

"I can't believe Mommy is letting me eat chocolate before breakfast!" (For the record he only got to have one piece.)

Jeremy trying out his AirHog helicopter from Santa. The cats LOVED this, by the way, and I've never heard Evan laugh so hard in my life!

CHRISTMAS AFTERNOON at Great-Grandma Nelson's:

Evan is always amazed (and a little frightened) by Grandma's life-sized Santa. Bonus: he sings.

Harlan showing Evan the woodpecker toy that he made long ago.

CHRISTMAS at the Irvin's:

Evan and Grandma playing with Evan's new table and dishes set. It will go nicely with his new wooden fruit set. Evan loves to make "soup" and "pour" things.

Alex gave Jeremy my Grandpa's old tackle box. Alex isn't much of a fisherman so he passed it on to Jeremy. It hasn't been opened in at least 10 years, but it was filled with all sorts of neat stuff. My Grandpa Grant was an amazing fisherman so hopefully it will bring Jeremy some good luck!