Christmas in Cedar

Here is Dal with his prized Christmas tree!

He was with my mom when she went to pick hers out and he kept telling her over and over that he wanted a little tree of his own. He tried getting the blue tree, but she talked him into a (cuter) little green one.

When we were little we had our own little trees in our rooms and we LOVED them!

He was SO excited to get it home, decorate it and get it into his room. Several different times we would go in and he would be sitting in the dark staring at the "pretty lights". So cute!

Buddy has loved his magic Christmas pillow case from Grandma and Grandpa Reynolds.

And also loved tucking in his buddies on their little pillowcase too :)

Grandma Whiting gave Dal this little advent calendar that we hung on his window. Every day he would get SO excited to open up another little door to see what was behind it!

One Saturday in early December Teag was skiing and Dallas and I decided to surprise him with our Christmas tree when he got home. Dal LOVED helping me pick it out and was such a good helper getting it out of the car and to the door. We left getting it inside and on the stand for daddy to do when he got home.

So proud and excited about the tree.

And so excited to push it over a few times...we had to have more than one chat about this ;)

We went to a little festival of trees and no surprise, Dallas didn't want to sit on Santa's lap

But we did talk him into giving Santa pounds and getting a candy cane

We had to get his pic by the SUU tree

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In mid-December there was an electrical light Christmas parade down Main Street in Cedar.

I had visions of a Disney-like parade...

yeah, not so much

this was the "electrical" aspect...

Dallas and daddy

Santa on the fire truck was a big hit!

Main street was decorated so cute with the lights strung across the road

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CHRISTMAS EVE

We went to NINJA for Hibachi and Sushi.

Dallas was a poor, little sicky over Christmas, but he was a good sport and still had fun.

although he wasn't so sure about the chef making big fires

He loves eating with chopsticks!

If he is eating sushi he just stabs it with one chopstick and eats it

then it was home to open pajamas and get ready for Santa to come!

Getting the carrots and cookies ready for the big man and his reindeer

Ta-da!

We read 'The Tale of the Three Trees', 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' and 'The Christmas Story' then went to sleep for a semi-long Winter's nap

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CHRISTMAS MORNING

Our buddy was so excited about his stocking and gifts from Santa!

Christmas morning he told us Santa came on a rocket-pack rather than with the reindeer :)

He must have been a very good boy this year!

Poor sick little boy :(

He was well enough to indulge in candy from his stocking, however.

He loved his McQueen tent!

We have been trying to find him a simple pop-up tent and everytime we get one it ends up being something that involves poles, etc.

Apparently Santa couldn't find one either...

After a short time of opening presents he climbed up on the couch with his be-be, baba and gooby and just said "I lay down now"

I LOVE my snuggie!

(when I can peel it off of Teag that is)

Mister LOVED his zhu-zhu pets too!

I don't know many 2-year-olds that would be as excited about a new shower curtain and bath rug as this boy was!

Then we had a fabulous post-presents meal of shrimp, artichokes, crab legs and lobster. YUM!

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

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Thanks to everyone for their generosity and wonderful gifts!

We missed our families, but still had a great Holiday :)