Happy Holidays!

We definitely had a great Christmas at our house. It was fun with Kohen even though he had no idea what was going on. It was still fun to see him open his presents and then totally ignore the actual toy and just go to town on eating the wrapping paper! But, what is the Holidays without any drama or excitement right??? Well, our "excitement" was on Christmas eve...

Jer and I were loading up the car to go to my parents house for dinner. We had everything in the car, Kid -- check, Dog -- check, Soup -- check, Diaper bag -- check, keys -- check. We shut both doors once we loaded up the last of everything and were walking around the car to get in and we hear .... click. The doors locked. Jeremy looked at me and asked if I had the keys and I sure didn't. Now, just as a side note, our dog has this amazing ability to find buttons on things like phones, or remotes and can somehow push them at the absolute worst times. Like when we are watching a movie and its at the intense part and then - click - the channel changes. Don't ask me how he does it but it's quite the talent. Well, in this case, he had managed to find the button on the keyless remote and locked the doors. Locking him and our child, who was crying at the time, inside the car.
Now, any responsible parent would say, "oh, no big deal, I'll just go and get the spare key." Right? Wrong. We have no clue where our spare key is. It's been missing for quite some time now. So, we are already running late for dinner and now have to find a way to break into our car. To make a 45 minute story into about 45 seconds we ended up with neighbors, neighbors kids, neighbors dogs, and the fire department in our garage. Needless to say, our nephew Dawson thought it was pretty cool to see a fire truck at our house and thought it was nice of the firemen to "rescue baby Kohen" as he tells the story. Yes, we will not forget Kohen's first christmas eve any time soon. And I would have gladly documented it with pictures and all but of course the camera was in the diaper bag... locked in the car. But a big thanks to everyone who came over to help, especially our neighbor with the Slim Jim who was the big hero and got the door open!!
Anyway, after that, christmas went off without a hitch! Kohen got some great gifts from grandparents and of course Santa!



It was a really great Christmas but what made it great wasn't the presents. I loved spending Christmas with just me and my boys. As long as I have them, I don't need anything else!

The day after christmas, we made a drive up to Boise to spend some time with Jer's brother and his family. They were in town visiting Julie's family and we couldn't pass up the chance to see them when they were so close. Kohen actually did very well for his first road trip. As long as we kept him fed he still got his naps in, we were golden!


We stopped for a quick dinner and then we were on our way again to Julie's family's cabin a couple of hours away. The two little guys were bundled up and were ready to go. We got to the cabin and unpacked and got a surprise visit from SANTA!


We all got presents from Santa and exchanged our family gifts. We gave the babies their presents the next day and I love the sequence of these two pics on our camera...
Ignore the foot and look at Kohen's face as he looks in his bag at his present...

And then decides the present he gave his cousin Oliver was, apparently, cooler.
He actually really likes the toy he received from his cousin. I'm guessing it was the shiny polka dots that he really wanted to get his hands on!
We had to cut our trip a day short due to bad weather, which was a bummer, but it was really fun to be able to spend some time with family, especially being able to have Kohen and Oliver together.