Christmas Night and Stockings

After a long day at work, I came home and we opened stockings, just the 3 of us! Here are some of Eli's goodies from Santa....

His first football

Cute new boots!

I just love this pic, peeking around the bow he was chewing....

Christmas Eve Snow

I think that this was the first year that I have seen snow at Christmas, and what a bettter time to have snow than Eli's first Christmas!! Here are some pics from Christmas Eve after we got back from church. It was cold, but I had to get them. Eli and daddy were good sports.

The yard, so pretty!

Celebrating Christmas with the Nelson family...

We exchanged gifts and had our "Christmas dinner" with my side of the family a couple of days before Christmas, bc. I had to work the holiday this year. My mom's birthday is also on the 22nd, so she gets to pick the restaurant, and it was good.....Pappadeaux! Here are some pics from the night, the food was sooooo good and we had a lot of fun with Eli and opening gifts!
Mom, Dad and Kelly at dinner

Our little family

First time to use the timer on my new camera! Not too bad!

Entertaining E before presents

Gifts...

Dad being goofy with his new presents

Eli taking a break from the presents

Why do we buy all these toys?

Eli has lots of toys, they all either light up, move, talk or sing, etc.... We find ourselves trying to find the latest and greatest toy that you just know he will love! So as every other parent does, "Santa" brought him some more fun stuff!! Now don't get me wrong he likes the new stuff, but ever since he has been crawling around and exploring his world, he LOVE'S the door stops...of coarse!! I think it so cute and he knows where each and every one of them are in the house.....

Pulling up!

Eli has a new trick, pulling up! One morning a couple of weeks ago, he was talking and babbling very loudly after is am nap, so I went in to see this.....

My chunk o monk was pulling up on the side of the bumpers and looking out over the top of his bed!! When I walked in he was so happy to see me and tried to reach out for me! I knew at this point we definetly HAD to lower is bed now!! Here are some pics of him pulling up on pillows. This is bc there is not alot of things for him to pull up on in our living room, so I put these down to see if he would do it, and as you can tell he was all over them!

Just a funny pic, he was talking to me...

He is getting around....

Eli is staring to "crawl" if you want to call it that. He is basically using all his upper body strength and pulling himself around the room. He is fast though! Check him out...

It's Snowing!

In this part of Texas we hardly ever get to see snow, so when we had our first snow of the season we had to take pictures and let Eli experience it! It was Eli's first snow also....

The morning it snowed, Ryan woke me up to let me know what was happening. I was excited, and couldn't believe it! The first thought in my head was Eli and what should I do? We got him up and walked outside with him. At this point it was just a few flurries and he didn't' notice. Ryan left for work and we just stayed inside watching the weather. After about 15 more min it started to come down harder, so I knew I had to get E out in it! I really wanted to get pics of him in his 1st snow, so I just put a hat on him and plopped him down on a blanket in the front yard! Ha...the things you do to get pics as a mom! I was cold and I am sure he was too, his poor little nose was soooo red! He looked around alot and stared at all the flurries coming down and wanted to touch it!