Happy Holidays With Hayden

We have had a wonderful past couple of weeks, full of fun with family and friends!

Hayden is full of smiles and is quite the happy baby!

We had a wonderful Christmas, it is quite different with a baby.....it was such a joy to sit back and watch Hayden and all of the fun that he had.

We were lucky enough to have my sister fly up for Christmas and spend some time with Hayden. Our festivities started on Christmas Eve, we had my family over for dinner and then went over to their house to do our tradition of opening one gift each!

On Christmas, Hayden was great all day, which was a huge surprise because it was a very action packed day. Hayden decided to wake up really early to see what Santa brought him. We opened all of our gifts and then got packed up and went over the the Bunch's.

We opened presents at Chris's parents house, and then had a great morning hanging out with the Bunch's. It was fun to watch our nieces, 2 and 6, open and play with their gifts!

After that we headed over to my family's house to have breakfast and open up even more presents. Our good friend Sally Brown got this shirt for Hayden, and it says it all...."Who needs Santa when I have grandparents"! Hayden's grandparents spoiled him rotten this Christmas! My dad loves Christmas and as usual spoiled everyone!

After that we followed another McGlinchy tradition and went to the movies with our good friend Skip. Hayden stayed awake for a little bit of the movie, but passed out cold soon after it started. We had a drink with Skip and my family and then headed out to the Bunch's for dinner. As you can tell from the picture above, Hayden had a fun, but long day!!!

We had our good friends Traci, Chipper, and their son Tripp over for New Years eve and the boys had a great time playing with each other. As you can tell from their hands interlocked, I think they have quite the long future together as being close friends!

Chris lite off fireworks for the kids, and Hayden loved to watch the bright lights. We had to watch the fireworks from inside because it has been about 30 below for the past few days.

Chris has had some time off work so I have been able to get a little bit caught up at work (I don't think I will ever be fully caught up!!). The picture above explains what happens when I am downstairs working, and Hayden and grandpa are hanging out upstairs......one word sums it up, chocolate!!! I had grand jury for a few days so Chris and Hayden had some great bonding time together...and although he will never fully admit how much work it is to take care of Hayden, I think Chris realized how I spend my days at home! I have really enjoyed Chris's company these past few weeks and I am dreading him going back to work, but hey someone has to pay the bills!!