Monday, January 5, 2009

Luke's First Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas with Luke!

On Christmas eve, we went to Matt and Lléna's house for dinner. The food was so yummy and the company was great! Auntie Lléna and Uncle Matt spoiled Luke with toys of course! We had a fun evening chatting and playing the Wii.






Luke (and his daddy!) surprised me with a gift that day too. There was a little present sitting under the tree with a sweet card that said: "Merry Christmas Mommy, From Luke." I almost started crying when I saw that! I received a super cute ring with his birth stone. I love it.


On Christmas morning, Cody surprised me with another wonderful gift. He splurged on a beautiful watch that I had been talking about. I was really surprised because it was quite expensive and thought I might have to wait until our 10th or 20th or 30th wedding anniversary ;-) He did say that I had to consider that a gift for the birth of Luke, Christmas and my upcoming 30th birthday!!! Fine with me! The watch is perfect! Luke received a fun gift from Santa. It's an activity dome with the designs and colors of Eric Carle.



Then, we headed to TC to visit Cody's family. We ate a yummy breakfast at Craig and Kathy's house and opened a ton of gifts. Luke will be the best dressed little boy on the block! At the end of the day, Luke had a laundry basket FULL of new clothes. He and his cousin Owen got matching overalls and a funny onesie. Luke's says "Chicks dig me" and Owen's says "I party naked." Now, we need to get the boys together for a fun photo shoot!
Craig and Kathy spoiled us all again!


After that, it was time to go to the O'Brien's to celebrate Christmas with Cody's mom and stepdad Dwayne. Again, we all got spoiled with great gifts, ate a yummy Christmas dinner cooked by all and enjoyed great company.




And here's a cute pic of all the babies at Cori's house. Kylie, Luke, Finley, and Owen.


And here are the cousins: Luke and Owen


Our final stop for the day (I know...what a long day!) was back at Craig and Kathy's house to say hi to the rest of the family. Luke of course received more gifts from everyone (this child is so loved!) and one of his very favorite is the mobile that Becky and Greg gave him. Luke loves to look at the animals and laughs and giggles at them all the time! I have to take a short video of him doing that...too cute!






I so wish my family could have been here too to celebrate Luke's first Christmas. We miss them so much.

1 comment:

McElrath Family said...

Luke looks so tan in his pics...looks like he enjoyed all of the family holding & loving on him :) So fun to share your bundle of joy with loved ones isn't it??

Oh & way to go on the ring idea Cody!