Trip to Florida

We went down to Punta Gorda, Florida last weekend for Grandpa Gene's memorial service. We were able to spend lots of time with family. Nathan and mommy got to meet Aunt Carolyn (Gran's daughter) and Uncle Kevin (Aunt Tacy's husband). The weather was in the 70's the whole time- which is nice because when we left Georgia there was still snow on the ground.

Daddy, Nathan and Gran
Daddy, Nathan and Aunt Carolyn
A family picture (missing a few people though).
Aunt Carolyn and Aunt Tacy
Nathan
The Shriner's
Uncle Kevin

Nathan playing with the Christmas present Aunt Tacy and Uncle Kevin gave him. It was a Dinosaur Train (from the PBS show). Nathan loved it. He played with it all weekend, and even slept with it in his bed.
We had a great time and we were glad that we were able to see Gran again so soon.

Another snow day

On Monday, our new Governor was inaugurated. His first official order of business was to declare all government offices closed on Tuesday, so David had another day off. Since the roads were still icy we didn't go anywhere. We watched movies, played trains, went for a walk, shoveled and of course we played in the snow. We built a "daddy snowman" and a "baby snowman". We attempted to sled down our neighbors driveway on storage bin lids.
I am not sure why Nathan is crying here. He had a lot of fun outside.
Clapping for the sledding.
Nathan was the first to go down (not the best idea, but it turned out ok). He had a lot of fun sledding, but he only went once. He said weehaw! while he was going, it was funny.

Aunt Caitlin was second. It didn't work for adults as well as it did for Nathan, but we made it work.







After sledding, we had a little snowball fight and then built the snowmen. It was a really fun snow day, but hopefully we will be able to get out of the house today. We haven't left since we got home from church on Sunday.

6 inches! To some of you, that may not be a whole lot, but for us here in Georgia, it is a whole lot!
Nathan loves it! Within a half hour we went out 3 different times. He kept saying "it's Christmas Day". I think that since last time it snowed it was on Christmas, unfortunately there are no presents to open today.

The snow pants we got him for last year still fit him, and he is wearing his rain boots as snow boots.

Caitlin threw a snowball at me, so I threw one back. I just have better aim. Let that be a lesson to you- don't get in a snowball fight with an experienced snow ball fighter.
This is the ice that is on all our cars. I don't think we are going to go out today, except maybe to build a snowman!

White Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year. It started on Christmas Eve morning, we had our family Christmas. Nathan was so excited to FINALLY open the presents. First we opened our stockings. Nathans had books, a Santa pez, and some Toy Story stuff. David and I didn't really have anything in ours but some candy.

Nathan was excited about the new books, he loves to read- like his dad.
I made him open his clothes first, not very exciting.
Then he got to open his toys. He got Buddy, Don and Velma the dinosaurs from one of his favorite shows "Dinosaur Train" (it combines two of his three favorite things, he third being baseball).
After opening them, he didn't care about opening anymore presents, so David and I helped him with the rest. He also got a dinosaur flashlight (Rex-from Toy Story)and some movies (Monsters Inc., Toy Story 1 and Mary Poppins).


After that excitement Nathan was tired. Playing with new toys will do that to a kid. After our Family Christmas we drove over to grandpa and grandma Rygmyrs house. We went with them to their Christmas Eve service and then home for pizza. After dinner we exchanged presents for the names we drew. Caitlin had my name and she hooked me up! I got some new makeup, a sweater and an awesome new blender ( we have gone 5 years without one, so I asked for one this year). Sherry had David and he got Golf lessons, he is so excited about them!
In the morning we opened our stockings and gifts from Santa. We always get scratch off tickets in our stocking- a couple of us won- a free ticket, me included.
Pa got a rifle from Lance for Christmas, and in the morning Santa brought him a scope for it. He was really happy about it. He said it was "the gun he never got as a child".
David putting the scope on for Pa.

Santa brought Nathan a tricycle. He wanted to ride it even before Daddy had it all put together. He can't quite peddle, but he is slowly getting the hang of it. Maybe by summer he will have it down and can ride around the cul de sac.
It Snowed! It really was a white Christmas. David looked it up, and it hasn't snowed on Christmas day in Georgia since 1881, 130 years ago! Nathan loved the snow. He and grandpa tried to catch snowflakes on their tongues.

Nathan didn't care how cold it was outside, he just wanted to play.
Nathan proved it is never to cold to play golf, and baseball.
It really was a great Christmas. The excitement in Nathans eyes every morning as I would bring him downstairs and he would see the Christmas tree all light up. Every morning he would tell the Christmas tree "Hi Christmas tree", and wave hello to it. We taught him to say "Ho ho ho. Merry Christmas". Every time he saw lights on someones house he would say "Hi Christmas". And he asked us at least 100 times to "sing Christmas", which meant for us to sing "We Wish you a Merry Christmas" and he also wanted us to sing "Frosty". David and I don't remember the way the song goes, but we know the words, so each time we sang it, it was a different version.
We took our tree down the other day while Nathan was napping, so he wouldn't get to sad. He came down and asked "where go Christmas tree?"
I can't wait for next Christmas!