Christmas 2014

Christmas through a four year old's eyes is pretty magically... the joy of decorating the tree, the mystery of the little elf who comes to visit each day, and the unfiltered anticipation of what Santa will bring!

Alas, our Christmas this year was full of excitement, laughter, anticipation, sharing of the holiday season, Christmas movies, and (of course) many wonderful gifts.

Here's a look at Christmas 2014.

Christmas Eve at the Jabbusch's

Christmas Eve

Grandma & Ollie

Baby's first Christmas

Dad & Ollie

Lisa & Ollie

Justin & Ollie

Christmas Day at Home

Santa came!

Legos were a big hit! Isaac got this set on Christmas eve and was so excited to wake up on Christmas to put it together. In fact, he put it together before opening any other gifts!

Taking it all in...

modeling a few gifts

Santa got a few things for Lodi too

Santa visit part II (at preschool)

Christmas 2013, Happy New Year, and a Winter Catch-Up

Christmas and new years have come and gone! We spent most of the holidays close to home, enjoying time with family and friends, and enjoying the holiday (back) in our Seattle home. Here's what we've been up to.

Christmas 2013

Picking out an xmas tree

Amused with "elf on the shelf"

Visits with family - Isaac and Aunt Lisa

Isaac's Holiday Program at preschool

Still skeptical about santa, but gave him the full rundown of his "wish list"

Christmas Eve at G&G J's - Lisa, Justin and Oma

Christmas Day at Lisa & Justin's - G&G J and Ruxin

A little G&G time

Happy New Year!

NYE party - dress as yourself as a child

Great time catching up with old Seattle neighbors - Grace, Phil and daughter Irene

Lots of time at the zoo with our new membership!

our focused artist

happy 2014!

And... a Little Bit of January

Discovered a new train set at a nearby coffee shop

Celebrated Eric's Birthday... with a BIG Seahawks win!

Dad & I.O. at Hilliards to watch the game

Gymnastics! Found a great kids open gym in Ballard

Fun discovering new breweries

Ahh... sunset at Carkeek park

Christmas 2012

By now, everyone is well aware of our snowboarding adventures on Christmas Day, but in addition to that we had a wonderful Christmas!  Christmas eve we enjoyed dinner at home and opened one present (new PJs as seen above).  Christmas morning we woke up to open Santa's gifts and more gifts from family and friends.  Isaac had way more anticipation and excitement this year, and it felt like his first real Christmas...  He knew the whole drill about being nice for Santa, and knows just about every holiday/christmas song verbatim.  After opening presents and a nice breakfast (coffee!!) we headed up to the mountain to let Isaac try snowboarding.  Then we headed to Angela & Austin's house for a nice Christmas dinner:

Isaac and Angela

It was a long day, but well worth it to be around family and friends we love and to enjoy a little time in the mountains as well!

An early snowy Christmas

December is here and the holidays are in full swing!  Isaac's excitement of the holiday season and snow is contagious.  We're having a lovely week-long visit with Eric's Dad, and wish all of the grandparents could be here to celebrate with us!

Tree Trimming

Celebrating Christmas Early with Grandpa Merhar

Snow!  Fun riding fresh powder at Canyons and playing in the snow at home.

Isaac is very interested in snowboarding.  Isn't this is how we all learn?

Christmas Morning in Park City

A belated Merry Christmas to everyone!

We celebrated our first Christmas in Park City. We enjoyed a  long weekend, a quiet Christmas Eve dinner at home, and lots of sledding at the park, of course. For Christmas Day, we opened presents, had a big breakfast and went to dinner at our friends Andy & Michelle's house. We missed all of our family and friends in Seattle, however we are thankful for the great group of friends we have here in Park City already. Isaac didn't have the anticipation of Christmas, but he certainly was excited to open gifts, and still remembers who they are from.  Here are a few photos from Christmas morning:

Isaac's first RC car from Uncle Jeff! (RC stands for Remote Control...)

Modeling Daddy's new snow boots

He loves his new blocks from "gamma and gampa" J

Modeling some new clothes from Santa! (check out the xmas explosion in the background)

Ski harness from Gamma and Gampa M!

Modeling Mommy's Boots and new Camelbak 

Oh yeah... and we took in a kitty! her name is Mia (Isaac named her.. it sounds like Meow).  Here she is.

On another note, I apologize for the delay in posting lately. This Blogger in Chief & Executive Mommy has been really busy at work. But I promise... New Years post coming soon!

Cheers!  - Christina, Eric & Isaac