Christmas 2009

This year was one of the best Christmases ever! I don't really know what it was about this year, but I just had the best time! Everything seemed to just go perfectly. This was the first year that we woke up at our house on Christmas morning with our little guy and SANTA CAME! He brought Ty lots of new toys (probably too many, in fact). Some of his favorites are his camera, gears, walkie talkies and bath crayons (which a few days later were used to color on the wall in the hallway when Mommy wasn't looking....luckily they wipe off easily, but not before Mommy about had a heart attack!)

Daddy got ShamWow's (as a joke), jeans, and a watch from his boys.

Mommy got birthstone earrings from each of her boys and a pearl ring from all 3 boys.

Ty lost interest in opening presents at several points throughout the morning. As would be expected when he got a toy that he found particularly interesting he didn't want to do anything but play with that. Soooo, we found ourselves bribing him with the fudge covered Oreo's that I got in my stocking to open more presents. Poor kid...has to get cookies in order to open presents. So mistreated.

This is one of the cooolest presents that Ty got this year. Justin's mom made him this hideout. As I've mentioned in previous posts, he's very in to hideouts right now and he absolutely LOVES this one! It came complete with fish, canoe, mailbox, and treestand. He fell asleep in it for his nap the other day...too cute!

Santa also brought him this potty seat. It makes truck sounds when you potty in it, but so far it hasn't been used for anything other than a cool chair or stepstool. One of these days....

Ty's biggest gift from Santa this year was his official big boy bedroom, complete with boat bed. I have to say, Santa's elves were very sad as they took down all the baby stuff off his walls to put up the new big boy decorations. It doesn't seem possible that it should be time for this.

Off to Mammaw Ogden's house...

3 more great grandkids due soon.

Grandma and Grandpa Barnhart's

Ty got the cutest little welder's set so Grandpa can teach him how to weld.

Pappaw Taylor's house

We had a little trouble with Ty not wanting to open presents again at Dad's and he eventually had to get a time out...discipline never takes a holiday.

Owen got this football uniform and kept saying he was Peyton Manning...so cute.


Mammaw's Christmas at Aunt Trista's house.

the 3 musketeers.

Ty got this rubber frog in his stocking and apparently he was convinced that it was real (it did feel a bit slimy) because he absolutely would not touch it and whined if you got it too close to him or one of his toys.

Boys at work.