We spent Christmas evening with Adam's family. His parents decided to fore-go the traditional holiday meal, and instead they'd gotten Papa Murphy's pizzas the day before and then baked them on Christmas. It was a great idea, and super delicious.
In stark contrast to my side where Sutton is the first and only of his generation, on Adam's side, he's the twelfth grandkid out of thirteen! Lots of them live out-of-state so we don't often see them, but he still has a great time playing with his cousins who live close.
We'll start the photos off with the traditional Christmas photo of Grandma Janet with Bailey sitting on her lap. They started this when she was teeny tiny, and she's nearly outgrown the lap, haha.
Sutton has issues with us trying to get a photo of all the kids. He chooses that moment to decide he HAS to be held by me or Adam.
Then we opened gifts. Always the favorite part for the kiddos.
Adam's parents had Jones Soda made with our photo on the label! How fun is that!
Ed has an on-going battle with the plethora of squirrels that frequent his backyard. So Adam's sister and fam got him "squirrel underpants" as a joke. Didn't know they made those, did ya?
Adam plays a lot of chess, especially in his classroom...he's taught all his students to play (p.s., I don't even know how, shhh....). So his dad made him this amazing vertical chess board! He got glass pieces to go along with it. Very cool.
Sutton really likes this massager thing that his grandparents have. He has to play with it every time he goes over there. He really likes it when you massage his back. Or his belly. :)
The hit of the night for Sutton was the bubbles that were in his stocking. He looooves bubbles.
By the way, if you're wondering why everyone is in pajamas, Adam's sister Jessica had the fun idea to do a pajama Christmas. She even bought Sutton his own pair. Super cute.
We had to do our annual photo in front of the Christmas tree...I love our little family.
Then Adam showed Sutton the fun train that went around the bottom of the tree. He even got to push the lever to make it go.
Then he decided that a little dancing was in order. Per usual. :) This makes me smile every time I look at it. (Someone's cell phone rang at Lowe's today while we were in line and Sutton started dancing, and the people behind us thought it was the cutest thing and just oogled over Sutton.)
Okay, back to the train.
Breegy! This is our niece who has a special bond with Sutton. She's loud and awesome and all over the place and Sutton was scared of her for awhile, but now they're best buds. She always exclaims "BABY SUTTON!!!!" when she sees him. I think he'll always be "baby Sutton" to her, which is so sweet.
She and I are pretty good buddies too. She calls me "GEEMA!!!!"
So we tried again for the grandkids photo. Sutton freaked...
...so we gave him a cookie and an unopened box of candy and he was good to go.
And the boy cousins. We're sad Madeline left early and wasn't included in the kids' photo. Buuuut...she's a freshman in college, so...she's kinda old for that anyway. :)
