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Showing posts with label 2013. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2013. Show all posts

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Christmas 2013

Christmas day was a busy one! I was so excited to see Kingsley's reaction Christmas morning. At first he just started to play with his old nativity set.
He was also pretty confused why Grandma & Grandpa were there.
Kingsley is not a morning person, and I think he was feeling a little nervous from all the attention so he was a little whinny & timid at first.
Luckily he warmed up and really loved everything he got. He really liked the bike I gave him, unfortunately it was too big so his feet couldn't touch the ground, but he liked having Jer push him around.
I just love his face in these.
His main gifts were the bike, a teepee, and these awesome chairs Earl & Sandy gave to both the boys.
Getting a picture of both these two looking at me is pretty much impossible. I ended up making their Christmas Jammies this year and loved how they turned out. Although Hudson has already grown out of his already!
Jer got the boys some Bears stuff of course.
King loved sitting in his chair and going thru his stocking. It was a little overload for him as he wanted to play with each and every single thing.
I gave Jeremy new dress shoes, workout clothes, and some instagram magnets. I received my college diploma framed, and gift cards for a massage, to get my hair done, and to buy house decor. After we visited my parents house we headed over to the Kemps to open gifts and eat lunch. I got all my spectacular clothes and Jer got a new coat and we surprised him with the new Xbox one we had convinced him was sold out. He was pretty stoked.
How cute are these stockings Sandy makes for each kid?
Obviously Hudson loves his.
Kingsley no longer cooperates when it comes to picture taking..
After a delicious Ham, funeral potatoes, peas, rolls, and layered jello we came home to put the boys down for naps. I rested & got ready while Jer got his xbox set up.
That evening we headed to my moms for dinner and to play games. We played a bidding bean game and I ended up with some yoga pants, gatoraide, snowman kit, and game. Jer and Meg basically won everything because apparently all us Potters hoard our money :)
It was such a fun busy day, I can't wait until next year!

Friday, January 10, 2014

Christmas Activities

With a new baby I couldn't do all the fun outdoorsy christmas things I wanted to with Kingsley, like building a snowman or sledding so I tried to plan as many festive indoor activities as possible. 
First we headed down to station park with the Browns to meet Santa. Kingsley had been talking about him non stop so I was excited to see how he would react. Somehow we ended up in line for an hour & a half! It was freezing and I hadn't really dressed anyone appropriately because I didn't think we would be there that long. Turns out Kingsley was too nervous to sit on Santa's lap so Jer had to sit with him. We did get this awesome photo though even which looks like he loves Santa :)
We braved the snow and cold to head downtown to see the lights. It was kind of magical with the snow. Kingsley was not stoked with his snow cover however.
We made some awesome gingerbread houses at my moms house. Kingsley ate a lot of candy.
We went to the annual Christmas Oakridge Brunch with the Kemps.
 Hudson had his chance to sit on Santa's lap. He didn't really care, but Kingsley on the other hand really was not having it this time around.                                 
Something that was not awesome is when we all got the flu!
Sadly I didn't even know Kingsley had it, but passed it on to everyone one in both families :(
I can't forget to mention my favorite day of the year which is the annual shopping trip I get to take with Earl. Huddy had to tag along, but luckily he was an angel so I could get some serious shopping done. Thanks big E, you're the best!
This photo is from actual Christmas day when we went up to visit Grandpa Kemp. He didn't even know it was Christmas, but it was so nice to see him. He is such a sweet guy. Kingsley wouldn't go near him, he is really shy and nervous lately which is a little weird with his personality.
After Christmas we did our annual New Years Eve dinner with Crab from Costco.
All the festiveness wore Hudson right out! I love the holidays, but boy they can be tiring!
Ps I still need to post about our new house!