Christmas Eve and Christmas 07

CHRISTMAS EVE 2007

Christmas Eve we had planned our traditional Italian feast dinner. Benjamin's stomach had other plans. That night about 30 minutes before family was supposed to start arriving, Ben started throwing up. Little did we know this was the beginning of the roto virus.

Here he is drinking jello water. He had gotten sick a little before this. But, we still gave him his traditional Christmas Eve pj's. Okay forget the Jello water, it's present time. Daddy helping Ben get his pj's on. The only picture we got on Christmas Eve. I have no make up on, and Dan and I were both feeling gross after Benjamin's sick time. But we still smiled for a picture. :) Not really feeling in the picture mood Playing with some ornaments After he started feeling a little better. I took a few pictures of him by the tree.

Daddy reading Ben The Christmas story and The night before Christmas. CHRISTMAS MORNING One of our ornaments from Hawaii Benjamin's first Christmas ornament The stockings stuffed with care Ben ready to run down the hall and open presents Ben still wasn't feeling that well. He sat on each of our laps opening presents. He ripped off one piece at a time...... Happy boy with a set of people from Play Town He also got the set of Elmo and Grover in the Play Town set. Wrapping paper flying off as he opened the books from Aunt Brenda! As he tore off one piece of paper at a time, he would give each tiny piece to Dan. A book from Santa Daddy got a ESPN baseball game to take with him on his deployment. A Christmas book for Ben Daddy also got the Transformers movie Ben helping Mommy open her present Whopppppeeeee, I got the 5th Harry Potter movie! Ben went straight for the bigger present........ Paper was flying...it was Christmas madness
Trying to get his truck out of the box Daddy had bought this for him back in San Diego months before. This was a special present from Daddy. Grabbing presents from bags that the Johnson Family sent us More presents from Alaska...you spoiled us Johnson family! A book on counting with Alaskan animals Playing with his bald eagle and wearing his new beanie Playing with his new toys....including his Play Town firetruck from Grandma and Grandpa Ford. He drove Elmo and Grover around all morning Setting up Maria and Grover on the construction truck Typical 1 year old...enjoying the boxes and paper more than the presents.....

A little bit later we were packing up the car to head to Nana and Opa's up the mountain. Ben HAD to have his new truck with him while we drove.

NANA AND OPA'S HOUSE

Ben giving Opa Christmas hugs The table set for Christmas dinner Nana and Opa Uncle Jim and Aunt Stacy Ben riding Uncle Jim's shoulders after dinner Sitting around after dinner Ben watching out the window as Opa takes the puppies for a walk in the snow The reason we all stayed in the house...Brrrrrr........it dropped to 2 degrees when leaving at night Leah and Dan Opa taking care of leftovers Ben on his favorite thing at Opa and Nana's house....the saddle

Family photo time in front of the warm fireplace

Saying good bye
Meanwhile back our house.....
We were spoiled by Uncle Jim and Aunt Stacy. Here is a dinosaur that they gave Ben.
He LOVED the dinosaur. It roared and walk on it's own. Here he is stomping like a dinosaur.


Ben hugging his new dino


Mommy
Little Monkey
Mommy and Ben
Later on that night Ben was throwing up..... 4 times to be exact. That continued on for a week and a half! We were just happy that it took a break long enough to enjoy Christmas Day!

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