Christmas!

ok i loooove christmas time. i always look forward to this time of year! not for the consumerism, not CoMpLeTeLy for the food, but for the time w/ family. i love it. i get on such a high and it's hard to come down after all the time spent w/ family. i am soooo greatful for our extended family and all the time we have gotten w/ them over the past few days, they are amazing!!! b & i made each other presents this year rather than buying just things. b made me the most amazing set of fun things - he invented a logo for our family w/ a bee, since our initials = b.e.e. so it's a neat little bee hive w/ a bee & a heart. he carved his own linocuts (easily put, large nonsquishy blocks, kinda like stamping) of the logo. he also bound his own books, everything is from scratch so he made a card, a diary where the top half is for what baby did today & bottom half for what i did, and he also made me a little sketch book, stickers & buttons! it was amazing. it by far was the best coolest gift! but here's some pics of the holiday although there are a lot more, these are the best ones:

baby e got a sweet tunnel for christmas. dadda figured out a new way to play w/ it vertically rather than horizontally...











this is auntie jenn & baby boy & the cousins he adores...he doesn't even care i exist when he's around them...my little guy is growing up so fast!!!



e's face completely lit up when he saw his new little tricycle christmas morning. his little legs can't completely touch the pedals, so when we're not pushing him around the house on it, he's kinda' pushing off the ground and making himself move for now.







4 generations of awesome men! papa, grampy, b & e