Merry Christmas!

We had an awesome Christmas this year! We were especially excited because Tytyn is older and we knew he'd get more excited about things. We stayed in Idaho for Christmas this year, it was the first year in many that Tyrel's parents would have all their boys home before another one left on a mission. I think the past 5-6, maybe more, they have had 1 or more boys gone on a mission so this year they were all excited to be together! I missed my family alot, but was grateful I got to see them over Thanksgiving break. We wanted to do our own little Christmas as well, so Christmas eve morning we woke up and opened presents with Tytyn. We had them all laid out in front of the tree as well as the stockings and Tyrel had the video camera ready for when Tytyn walked in. It was so fun to watch his face light up! He learned to say the words cool and neat that morning and so every present he opened he would say, "cool" or "neat." It was SO cute! Then later that afternoon we drove up to Tyrel's parents house so that we could stay with them for a few days. We got totally spoiled by everyone! Thank you to my parents as well as Tyrels and some of our extended fam who were so generous and thoughtful to us this Christmas season! Tyrel surprised me and got me a Kindle Fire, I love it! But more importantly we got to be together with each other and with family and dwell on how blessed we are. One of my little Christmas decorations says "Jesus is the Reason for the Season." I did my best to keep that in mind and am so grateful for the Savior's constant presence in my life. It is so comforting to feel his spirit within our home and our family each day. I hope I was able to reflect his example to others this past year and am grateful for the chance I get to improve upon that this upcoming year. Here are a bunch of random pics from the past month or so. I didn't get a whole lot of pics on Christmas because I was mostly doing video. Enjoy!

This was just a rare day that we were so tired that we fell back to sleep by 9am in our lovesack. I was reading him books and next thing I know I woke up an hour later. I love snuggle naps with my little one!

These caramel apple cheesecake bars are to die for! I made them for our ward Christmas party and was so glad I kept a few at home for us to enjoy, they were gone within seconds.

This day I taught him to say "cheese" for the camera. So he had fun running back and forth between the tree and the camera to see the pics I took and then to hurry back in front of the tree and say "Cheese!"

My big boy! I can't believe he will be 2 in less than 4 months!

Watching a Christmas cartoon on my Kindle Fire, he thought that was pretty cool!

His cute little reaction to a tractor he opened up from his Grandpa and Nani Bingham.

The lighting is horrible in this pic, but I love his adorable expression, he was seriously SO excited about this tractor!

Popping some bubble wrap with Uncle Logan. Poor Logan has had a hard time getting Tytyn to warm up to him. Tytyn had his other uncles to get to know for a full year before Logan got home from his mission, but I think Tytyn is finally coming around. He LOVES all of his uncles!