A Visit with Santa

I took Wyatt to see Santa Claus yesterday afternoon.  I love going this early in the Christmas season because it isn't crowded at all and its easy to get in and out pretty quickly.  The appointment process is a bit insane, but honestly makes Santa visits soooo easy!  I can't imagine having to stand in a long line with an 18-month year old! 

I figured Wyatt would cry and fuss about sitting on a strange man's lap, but he really did pretty well.  He definitley didn't want to sit there, but he didn't cry.  Success! 

White (day after) Christmas!

When we left to go up to Grandma's on Christmas morning it was snowing in Smyrna. I got soooo excited thinking we'd have a nice, pretty drive in the snow but it quickly turned to rain. A bit of a letdown, I suppose but by the time we left the farm on Saturday night it was snowing again and the snow seemed to be sticking to the ground!

We woke up Sunday morning at the lake to lots and lots of snow covering the ground!! Yay!! Wyatt's first snow!!

We all got bundled up and headed outside for some pictures! (Like I said, Wyatt doesn't lack for pictures AT ALL!! We photo-document everything). Wyatt HATED being all bundled up but he was overall a good sport about it. Like his snowman shoes? They didn't really match his outfit and I probably would have been better off putting him in his boots, but I just thought these were so appropriate for snow. And it isn't like he can walk so it really just didn't matter much!

Me and Wyatt with Ellie and Kimmie. Ellie absolutely loved the snow -- hopefully when Wyatt is her age he will like it a little better as well. And he'll maybe even tolerate getting bundled up.

Family picture! I know I'm mis-matched but I half-assed it when I was packing because I just wasn't convinced that it was really going to snow!

Meme and Papa with W and E! My dad looks soooo cold!!


Meme and Papa bought Ellie and Wyatt a kid-Gator several weeks ago. We all love riding the Kubota so they figured that they would like this kid-version. We have a super long driveway that is perfect for riding so I imagine these two will be playing with this often this summer! As Dad said to me "we've got Wyatt a new Gator, and a driver" That might be the case for a little while but before long Wyatt will figure out how to drive that thing!

Ben worked hard to build Wyatt his first snowman. Here he is in action while Wyatt and I just stood there "supervising"

Wyatt was soooo fussy by the time the snowman was finished, so we let him nap and came back out later to pose for a picture with it. The snow was starting to melt and Wyatt still wasn't thrilled about being layered up and out in the cold so we just did the best we could with the picture.

Christmas Day 2010

One thing Wyatt does not lack for are pictures! Oh and toys apparently ... now that we've gone through his first Christmas! I told Ben the other night that I really thought we had done a great job up until this point at keeping our house looking relatively adult with a few splashes of baby here and there. Now, a toy bomb has apparently exploded in our home and there are toys EVERY.WHERE.

Its my own fault -- every time I was at Target or Babies R' Us I would find another toy that Wyatt just "had" to have. Oh well, you only have one first Christmas in your life, right? He deserved to get spoiled.

On Christmas Day, we all got up and went downstairs when Wyatt decided it was time. First thing we did was show Wyatt that Santa had come to visit! Funny, he didn't really seem to care one way or the other! We still set him up to pose with all his gifts.

By the way ... has anyone ever noticed that whoever makes children's toys puts little easter eggs within them? I swear they do. That little monkey toy you see there on the left side of this picture plays a song that we SWEAR sounds like "I'm a big, dumb, tall giraffe ..."
We enjoyed an awesome breakfast and then all scurried to get dressed to head up to my Grandparents house for the afternoon. We tried and tried and tried to get a family picture with everyone looking at the camera and smiling. Didn't happen, but I think this one is pretty good!

We got to Grand Meme and Grand Papa's after lunch and had plenty of time to sit around and visit. Of course, there were more presents waiting for the kids there ... doesn't Wyatt look cute in his new Frog hat? And he LOVES this book!


After Grand Meme and Grand Papa's, we went over to the farm house for dinner and one final round of gifts. Here are Ben and I helping Wyatt to open his present.

Wyatt enjoying his Grand Meme and Grand Papa. Check out the couch they are sitting on!! (I've mentioned the stone-age couch before)

We attempted to get all of the cousins together for a picture. I think this is about the best we could do. There are LOTS of cousins at the farm -- all second, third, and fourth cousins to Wyatt I believe.

Ummm... I think that wraps up Christmas 2010!

I'll do snow pictures in another (maybe shorter?) post!