Happy New Year

So I have been really busy this past month. Christmas will do that to you. I have been baking and wrapping and traveling to family parties and trying to relax every chance I could. Here are some pictures of our experiences the last month or so.
This is Joseph smiling at the camera. One of his favorite past times.



Here he is taking a shower with daddy. He loves to play in the shower. He tries to catch the water and laughs when it gets on his face.


Here he is getting ready to see Santa for the first time. He had fun eating all the food and playing on the floor. He is walking like crazy.



Here he is on Santa's lap. Surrounded by his Brown cousins. He did pretty well with the whole Santa thing. He didn't cry, he just looked at Santa as if to say: "who are you and why am I here?"

Here he is marking off the first six months of my Parents mission. There is a link for every week until they get home. He sure has changed these last six months.


Here is my tree skirt that I worked on this year. I finally got it done. Wahoo. I have been cross-stitching it for a long time. But it is done and hopefully next year we can put it under the tree.

This is Joseph showing how excited he is to get a picture of Grandma and Grandpa Brown for Christmas.

And this is his first time to play in the snow. He really had fun. He mostly just sat and ate any snowflake that hit his face and also ate the snow that he was tired of playing with.



Here is Christmas Eve. Meeting his new cousin Jace. They live in California and came here for the holidays. Jace was blessed the Sunday before Christmas and then we got to hang out with them on Christmas Eve and New Years Day. Joseph is getting tired and doesn't want to be around a baby. But he loves his new cousin. He is very curious about babies, even though he doesn't see them very often. And here he is on Christmas, trying to decide if Mommy and Daddy really will let him rip the paper on the presents.
He really had a lot of fun for Christmas. He loves his new toys and the wrapping paper and boxes they came in. He is growing up so fast and we will be celebrating his first birthday in less than seven weeks.

Josh and I had a good Christmas. Josh got a new job just before Thanksgiving, so we have been paying off some bills. He works from home so we get to spend a lot of time together as a family. Now we just need to get those pesky bills payed off (Joseph's surgery) and we can work on fixing up the house so Joseph can finally have his own room.

Happy New Year everyone.