Merry Christmas!

This year we celebrated Christmas, as we do most years by gathering at my parent's home on Christmas Eve. There is always a lot of eating to be done and this year was no exception!

We all woke up fairly early Christmas morning to start opening all the gifts. This year Avery and Truman were both quite spoiled and in turn it took us a few hours to open up all the gifts. In between gift opening sessions we all enjoyed a lovely breakfast as we needed to keep up our strength. Avery seemed to enjoy his first Christmas and I am sure next year will be even more exciting.

Truman must have been a very good boy this year because Santa brought him exactly what he asked for....an apple! He was very excited to open his gift from Santa and has been letting us know since that Santa brought him an apple. I wonder if we will get off as easily next year?

On Boxing Day we headed over to Wanda and David's and enjoyed a yummy dinner, and had the most delicious cheesecake (baked by Tina of course). I wanted a second piece but refrained from giving in to my sweet tooth! Truman and Avery were both angels. Our little man who never eats meat, ended up eating two pieces of veal schnitzel! He also asked for ice cream (as he is now accustomed to having it at grandma's house).

We took Truman skating for the first time on Saturday evening and to our surprise he had a great time. It did take us however, almost a full half hour to convince him to put on his skates, but once we did it was hard to get off the ice. Jake, Rebecca, and Ryan also joined us, and Jake is a natural on skates. He was amazing to watch and I am sure next year we will see him with a hockey stick in his hand. His Jake Starkman the next Wayne Gretzky?

I hope everyone had a very happy holiday season. I am looking forward to spending the next week with Truman and Jerry.