First Christmas.

Anyone who knows me well knows that Christmas is my favorite time of the year!!

Ever since I was little - it has been a magical time of the year.

I look forward to everything that the holiday brings:

Family traditions, decorating, giving, baking, shopping, wrapping, cooking, Santa...

the list goes on and on. I just love it all!

This year was extra special for me,

I had someone extra special to celebrate it with...

J A X S O N  R E E S E  J O H N S O N!

We had the house trimmed perfectly,

Jaxson was always a trooper when I would bring him shopping with me. He watched me wrap lots of prezzies. We baked and prepared the house to welcome many guests into our home.

We celebrated both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at our home.

Uncle Ryan had to work on Christmas Day so we celebrated a little early with him.

You were much more interactive with the gift opening than I imagined.

It sure brought a smile to my face and a warmth to my heart.

Jaxson loved to go on walks and gaze at the neighbors Christmas light displays.

Most of the time, it would put him to sleep.

Of course, we had to thank Miss Jody for watching Jax over the past 4 months.

We delivered goodies to her and her family.

All of the baking and wrapping sure made us tired.

I looked over and Zzzz...little man was fast asleep.

(I secretly wish I could have zonked out too, but still too much to get done before the big day!)

Mama stayed up all night and finished everything that needed to be done.

The excitement was setting in..just a couple more days.

Only one more thing needed to be done =

ZOO LIGHTS!!

Daddy and Mommy had a wonderful time taking you to Zoolights @ the Phx Zoo.

It has always been fun to go and gaze at the light display but this year, because you were with us,

it made it all that more special. This was probably one of the best nights of the holidays!

                                               

HERE IT IS:

OUR FIRST OFFICIAL PICTURE WITH SANTA!!!

The time had finally come, Christmas Eve was here!!

People were coming, the house smelled of those wonderful Christmas-y scents, the food was in the oven and what did we get to do? Celebrate Christmas with Uncle Ryan! (He was on shift Christmas Day, boo!)

THE FACES WERE CRACKING US UP!

You were totally into the whole present opening thing.

You had no problem getting down to what you wanted inside,

It sure was cute!!

The guests were going to be coming soon, so we had to get into our Christmas Best.

Look at my little Santa - all decked out! Major Stud!

Opening prezzies with all the cousins:

After all the guests had gone home, we got into our Christmas Jammies and fell fast asleep.

Santa would be here in the morning! 

ZZZzzzzz.....

Well, well, well... looks like someone was a good boy!

 C H R I S T M A S M O R N I N G

It was so heart warming to see my little boy soo excited and just a little sponge taking in all the colors, laughter and joy the holidays bring! He made this day so very special to me and I couldn't feel more blessed than to be his Mama.

Once we were done, we headed over to Daddy's place to celebrate with him.

(Pictures coming soon!)

Christmas Evening we celebrated with Papa's side of the family.

Of course, another round of amazing food, fun memories, great games and lots of love.

As sad as I was knowing that Christmas was coming to an end...

I knew we still had much more fun ahead of us in the next few weeks...

Stay tuned.

Parties, New Years Eve, Out-of-town guests...etc!

I look forward to sharing many, many more Christmases with you!

I love you more than I could have ever dreamed.

XOXO