Merry Christmas...and a Happy New Year!!

This year we spent Christmas in Seattle. We were lucky enough to have a beautiful white Christmas...and Riley was extremely spoiled by all. We spent Christmas Eve with Riley's Grandpa and Grandma Burdo (Mike and Melinda), Riley's Great Aunt Leslie (Melinda's sister) and Melinda's brother Brad and his beautiful family. Melinda made an amazing dinner, we had lots of good wine, great dessert and good company... what more could we ask for.

Early Christmas at our house before we left for Seattle

Surrounded by presentsGo Cougs!My new sewing machine, thanks Hubby!

Aunt Leslie and Riley

We then spent Christmas day at Grandma and Grandpa Brown's house where Riley (and us) were even more spoiled. Riley had a ton of fun playing with his new toys and was dancing, talking and laughing the whole day.

We also had a lovely dinner at Maggiano's with Great Grandma and Grandpa Burdo and Uncle Bryan.

It would have been the perfect week except Riley got sick in the middle of the night, woke up with a fever and had to go to the ER for the first time. By the time we got there, he didn't really have a fever anymore but he they ran some tests and took x-rays since he had a cough and they wanted to make sure he didn't have pneumonia. After about 6 hours in the ER, we finally got to go home, but I ended up getting sick as well and we had to leave Seattle a little earlier then planned. It was still a great couple of days and we are looking forward to the next time we visit (or when we have visitors).

If all that wasn't enough, we still had Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa Watts house! We are truly blessed with a loving and generous family and are so lucky that Riley has such amazing relatives. (Sorry there aren't any pictures, I left my camera at home).

Here comes Santa Clause...

Riley didn't know what to think of Santa's beard at first, he kept trying to squirm out of his lap. It didn't take long though before he warmed up and was his smiley self again.

Happy 29th Birthday Cameron!!

Today is my brother's 29th Birthday, to celebrate his wife threw him an ugly sweater party on Saturday. Soo much fun, and everyone had great sweaters!! Walmart made a little bit of money off the party since half of us had the same sweater!

The birthday boy!!

Cameron and April

Me and Ryan

Gotta love Walmart! There were 2 other people with the same sweater as well! My mom and dad

My cousins Erica and Lexie and me

Erica and Bobby Gale doing Zoolander's Blue Steel
Bobby as Cousin Eddy
Most of the Cousins

Fun at Grandma and Grandpa's House

Grandma and Grandpa invited us over for dinner so they could play with Riley tonight. He had beef for the first time (mashed up pot roast), potatoes and fresh broccoli, he is getting to be such a big boy!

Hanging out with Grandpa

Safety First!!
Christmas came early... Grandma loves to spoil him!

Riley also got to spend both Friday and Saturday night with Grandma and Grandpa Brown. They came into town this weekend just so they could babysit!! Riley has the greatest Grandparents!!

It's just hair...

I can dye it back. I colored my hair dark for the first time a couple of weeks ago and thought I would finally post a picture of me since I'm usually behind the camera. I definitely like it better blonde but it has been a fun change.

Happy 50th Uncle Dan!!

We celebrated my Uncle Dan's 50th birthday last Saturday...it was a super fun evening with a couple of really good videos of the past 50 years, yummy Cosmos, and lots of munchies.

The birthday boy wearing his new shoes (complete with toe flags)

Riley and Aunt April

Riley and Uncle Cameron

Riley and cousin Erica

Just a few cute pics