sawyer's first christmas! grandma kris brought over some gifts. saywer's favorite color is red, so this wrapping paper was a big hit!he was so interested in what was going on.

what a long break! i had 16 days off of work and it seemed like forever. saywer and i flew to michigan and stayed for 10 days. scott came for a few days in the middle. it was a lot of fun! we did a lot of visiting. (i had to show off the "cutest baby in the world"...this is not just my opinion, one of christian's friends commented, "he is so cute, he could be in commercials!")......but i would never brag ;)

sawyer learned how to play parcheesi with papa haynes.
christian was a little hesitant when we first got there. he has never really been around babies, unlike his sister, but by the end, he was running around with his nephew and was an expert at making sawyer giggle. man, that baby loves his uncle chris!one of the last days we were there, three of my friends, holly, ruthie, and angela, came with their children and husbands and filled my parents home with noise and fun. we had 10 kids in all!!!i love christmas! it truly is one of my favorite times of the year!!!

so thanksgiving was fun. it actually started the sunday before when we went to scott's mother's house for dinner with her family. we ate and hung out for a couple of hours. this is a pic of peanut and gg (great grandma.) he eats everything right now, even gg's fingers.

on thursday we went to scott's other grandma's house and hung out with scott's dad, mom, sibs, and 'aunt, uncle, and cousins'. peanut got to be with his aunt...

it was a long day, but totally worth the pie! hee hee... we devastated about 5 or 6 of them!

we all played... peanut shared his new tummy time toy with his "cousins."

and then we were all tuckered out.
we got home just in time to give peanut a bath, get him ready and snugly for bed, and have a giggle fest (apparently the -ink word family is hilarious!) sorry about the amateur camera work...


he does have a band-aid on his cheek from a self-inflicted scratch. baby fingernails grow way too fast!!