Very Merry Indeed

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  For us, it was very Merry indeed!  There are so many great memories from the past 2 weeks and hopefully over the next few days I will be able to recap them!  Aiden's first Christmas as a mobile little boy was amazing!  He enjoyed every second of it and seemed to be beyond thrilled with all of the gifts.  His actions on Christmas morning were truly heartwarming.  We are in Elmo overload here in Gunderland!  Aiden now owns more than 8 Elmo's world DVD's, a pizza pie talking Elmo, tickle me Elmo, jibber jabber Elmo, Elmo boo boo buddy, Elmo magna doodle, Elmo band-aides, Elmo toothbrush and an Elmo book...WHEW!!!!  Add to that some clothes, lots of toys, a basketball hoop, a ball pit and some fun puzzles...he is not only spoiled but he is cherished by so many of our family and friends!  We enjoyed Christmas eve here with my in-laws and then most of Christmas day at home before we traveled to MD to see more family and friends!  I will be the first to admit that I love presents but I also love spending time with my family and friends and having the opportunity to spend some serious quality time with a lot of very special people was the highlight of my Christmas!  Enjoy some of our favorite moments from this holiday!

Now accepting all of my gifts while in the ball pit!

Elmo...Need I say more!

My family!!!

Cousins!

Anything like Leif...

My Mom flew in last Monday for Thanksgiving...we have been so busy and really felt like we didn't really get to spend as much time with her as we would have liked.  She was supposed to leave today but thankfully we were able to change her flight and keep her around for another week!  Yaaaayyy!  This gave Leif and I the opportunity to have a little date night while Grammy and Aiden hung out at home!  We went to a yummy restaurant in downtown Charleston called Coast...on the way home we heard one of our favorite songs...we have loved this song since we found out that we were having a boy!!!  It reminded me of a video I made for Leif on his first Father's Day...the lyrics to the song are so simple yet so true...

In all honesty...I hope he is everything like his Daddy!!!    Leif is such a great man...he probably gave his parents a few "heartattacks" but what son doesn't?

***Obviously I didn't write, produce, record or even have any input into this song so of course to be "legal"  the song is "Anything like me" written by Charles Dubois, Brad Paisley and Dave Turnbull and performed by Brad Paisley!