Sunday, January 11, 2009

Christmas Morning

This year we had a wonderful Christmas. It was so much fun to have Ethan old enough to open his own presents (with the help of mom & dad) and get so excited for his gifts. The day started out a little rough though. Ethan woke up at 2:30 am and wanted to play. Jared stayed up with Ethan for a few hours and then finally was able to get him back to sleep. Then around 9am we got up and dressed and sat around the Christmas tree to open our presents. I wasn't able to get any pictures of him opening his presents but here are a few of him enjoying them.

If you can't tell from this picture Jared is holding up a million dollar check. Every time we check the mail we always ask each other if there was a million dollar check and of course there's not so I thought it would be funny to make him this check and put it in his stocking. Too bad we can't cash it :)

5 comments:

Leslie & Matt said...

Looks like you guys had a good Christmas! That check is funny & is much better than the IOU card I made Matt one year when I couldn't find a couple of things he wanted...I'm LAME!! haha

Danica said...

HAHA Love the check, they should really hand those out. It's always hard to get pic of your kids their first Christmas' because you are so busy trying to help them it's hard to think about pictures.

Kimberly said...

Hi Shantell this is kim (leslie's sis) Your family is so cute! I love your background! did you make it???

chelseareeve said...

Hey Shanny...I was just thinking about you and realized I hadn't been on your blog for a while. That million dollar check was such a cute idea. You are just a cute girl and always so creative.

Becky said...

Ethan looks like such a big boy in the picture of him and Jared playing with the dinosaurs. I don't know if he looks so mature and big in that picture because he is kneeling or what. What a cutie!

The million dollar check is so cute and thoughtful! Way to find a new way to acknowledge an on going joke. So cute.