Holiday Fun

We've had a nice break so far.  We've done lots of celebrating with family, friends, and going fun places!  So, a photo blog it is:

Isaac and Pa on Christmas Eve at Nate 'n T's House.  Usually my parents host Christmas Eve and Christmas at their place, but with the fire, we spent Christmas Eve at Nate's, and Christmas Day at my Grandma's in Bountiful.

Isaac milks being the only kid at our family gatherings :-)

Obvious elation over the gift uncle Ben found for him.  He LOVES this gift. 

Homemade sushi on Christmas Eve - my dad showing off the "trifecta roll."  I was only able to eat the sushi with the cooked stuff inside, but it was delcious!!!  Isaac downed the seaweed salad like it was candy.

Isaac trying out his new garbage truck Christmas morning.  He's has been saving money in his piggy bank (self-named "Skreet") for almost a year for an "orangey garbage truck."  I decided to finally get him one for Christmas and let him save his $.

Dave's night vision goggles that Santa put in his stocking.  Isaac's intrigued.

Mom and Isaac on Christmas morning.  He slept in until about 8:30.  Hooray for us!  Santa stayed up building that kitchen in the background until 1:30 AM.  Good job Santa.

Isaac and Grandma Jo

Christmas Day

Isaac got lots of new books from us, Grandma Jo, and Nana and Pa for Christmas.  Lucky kid. :-)

Isaac and second cousin Landon.

Cute Aunt Mary and 2 of her grandsons - Landon and Luke.  Aunt Mary and my mom always come to my classroom on before Christmas dressed as elves and speak Elf (aka chipmunk) and bring happiness and toys to the kids in my class.  It's going on 4 years and it's such a fun tradition!  Next year I will have to get pictures.  It's awesome.

Nate and Tara on Christmas Day at Grandma Jo's house.

Drew and Monica on Christmas Day.  Monica was a trooper - she totally shattered her heel bone on Thanksgiving Day while rock climbing and had a VERY gnarly surgery.  She is on crutches and can't do much with her foot for 9 months!  She was supposed to go see her family in Nebraska for the holidays but the foot thing kind of put a damper on that, so we got to keep her for our celebrations instead!  Hooray for us (but sorry about the foot!)

Abbie knows she's not supposed to get on these couches, and she respects that.  However, on Christmas I let her up.  You give a dog an inch, she takes a mile.  We have found her lounging on this couch everyday since then. 

Isaac playing at the planetarium.  You just have to hope that after visiting interactive places like this that you don't have a sick kid in a few days.  Ah well...

Day after Christmas - Clark Planetarium with Julie and Tim.

Isaac on the moon.

Isaac thought it was hilarious to sit in this bucket and stick his tongue out.   He never asks me to take his picture, but apparently he thought this was a worthy photo op.

Getting ready to take the dogs out on an adventure

How adorable is this hat?  Tori made this for him in his favorite color with a pom pom on the top per Isaac's request :)  Thanks Tori!  He (and we) love it!

Dave got this t-shirt for Christmas - "Ink Happens."  Isaac has had the same t-shirt for some time, and it was packed away in his summer clothes storage bin.  When Isaac saw Dave's shirt, he INSISTED that we find his so they could match.  Very cute. 

At the Living Planet Aquarium their Ink Happens shirts :)