Josh, Tiffany & Co.

Dear Josh, I know I haven't thanked you enough for the sensory table you made me for Christmas. You have always been and will always be a thoughtful gift-giver, of which I can never even come close to matching. Even when I think I have done pretty well, you pull out amazing gifts that I didn't even know existed ; ). Thank you for taking so much time and energy in putting the plans together for the sensory table, making it fit into itself, so it can store easily, and making it pretty much just perfect. I have loved playing in it with Logan so far and I look forward to the many fun ideas I can come up with of things to put in! Love, Tiff

I think Logan liked Christmas! He especially loved being able to play with all his cousins in Logan and here. He loved being around people! Josh and I also loved being able to spend time with our own little family and our extended family. Christmas with a toddler was so much fun. The first present he opened would have been fine. We had to keep hiding his previous toys and enticing him to open more presents. Logan's Christmas included a lot of cars and trucks, because that is what he seems to love to play with lately. It was Josh's idea to get a car mat, and I absolutely love it! Logan likes it too :) We have it out in his room all the time and he loves to drive his new Hot Wheels on it. I like to park them in all the parking stalls. I am learning how to play like boys, I sneak peeks when Josh is playing with Logan to get more ideas. I wanted to get him this bucket of fake food! It is multicultural food, which means it is the cutest thing you have ever seen. Yesterday we got o...

Although the snow made it a little tricky to travel to and from Logan last week for some pre-Christmas celebrating, we sure did have a lot of fun playing in all that snow. Josh really wanted to make an igloo, and we got really close, but we ended up with just a snow fort in the end, still extremely cool. There is nothing better than laying down in snow and making a snow angel.

The hardest part about Christmas is when it's over. And here it is . . . over, but it was a wonderful Christmas. The nice thing about technology is I can wish a belated Merry Christmas to all who read our blog, so Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We hope the holidays found you well and you were able to celebrate the birth of our Savior and enjoy a beautiful white Christmas, as we were!

Logan was playing and randomly started saying, "Ho, Ho, Ho Christmas", I think it is his impersonation of Santa. We have been getting ready for Christmas and enjoying what the season brings, especially music, Josh and I were lucky enough to be able to go to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert, which was amazing (thanks Sheri!)  It is finally a Winter Wonderland here with lots of snow! I am so excited to bundle Logan up and let his experience it first-hand.

Logan was pretty excited to see Santa Claus at our ward party this weekend. "Santa!" This is Logan waiting in line to see Santa. When we tried to put him on his lap, he was a little nervous, but definitely liked the candy cane!

*The Christmas Card cover was designed by Leora Sanford at Little Dreamer Designs. The best part about Christmas is the traditions that are associated with it. This is our 4th Christmas together and it has been fun taking our favorite traditions from each of our families and adding our own. I have a little list of my favorites: *Christmas Eve dinner has evolved to be Chinese food of some kind, because that is something we both absolutely love. *Open one gift on Christmas Eve, usually of pajama-nature. *Christmas Day breakfast is Eggs Benedict, we've made together. It is a special treat we save mostly for Christmas morning. *We sleep in (even Logan cooperated this year! He woke up at 7:00 , but went back to sleep until 9:00:) and open presents later in the morning, mostly because Josh and I aren't morning people. *We open gifts one at a time, but we give each gift, with a kiss, to the person we got them for. Usually some kind of an explanation of why we chose that gift accomp...

Here are just a few Christmas pictures of Logan. His pants were beginning to look like shorts and I was afraid his sleepers were going to inhibit his growth, because he could never stretch his legs out. I went through the clothes some friends gave us and found some things that fit very nicely. It seems for length he needs at least 12 months, but his is starting to add some weight, at least in his cheeks anyway :) It is true that everything at Christmas seems special because Logan is experiencing it for the first time.

Logan is getting his top teeth, and his sleep schedule has been thrown off a little bit. The other morning he was up early and being kind of fussy, so I decided to come into the living room. As I came around the corner I remembered we had our Christmas tree up with the lights on and it was the most beautiful sight. Being in the dark with just the light of the Christmas tree was perfect. I love Christmastime, there is nothing throughout the year that can compare to it. The reason December feels different than the rest of the year is all the traditions associated with Christmas. I look forward to everything that Christmas brings. This is Logan helping to decorate the Christmas tree.

I absolutely love Christmas music. When the Christmas season approaches I can't help but listen to every rendition of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and this year pretty much the entire Josh Groban Christmas CD that Kathy let me borrow (which has become my favorite Christmas CD, sorry Peter Brienholt :). I just couldn't resist posting this picture of Logan, it makes me so excited for Christmas! My mom gave him the Christmas outfit and hat and we had fun taking pictures of him. I truly love everything about Christmas and I feel like the season is in full swing, just look at Logan, he's ready for his first Christmas.