3 weeks ago on Saturday night we went to Gardens Aglow at Heritage Plantation. It was nice, but not really worth what we paid. Caleb did enjoy seeing Santa, riding on the carousel and playing the music in Hidden Hollow.
The next day we had a small birthday party for Rad and David who were turning 30 on the 16th of December. My parents were on vacation so it was just Rad & Jen, David & Yully, and us. We had a nice meal and dessert and then the 3 of us headed over to the Enchanted Village at the Cape Codder hotel in Hyannis.
The Cape Codder has a really great Santa and lots of nice lights out in their courtyard
Crazy hat hair!
The rest of that week was fairly uneventful until Thursday when we went to Edaville Railroad with the Grodacks and Braces. We had a lot of fun riding the train and some of the kiddie rides both inside and outside.
Love this picture!
Caleb absolutely loooved driving this car!
That weekend there was a special Christmas program at church put on by the kids. The Cradle Roll / Kindergarten class sang a little song called "Happy Day" and Caleb sang super loud and the whole church thought it was so funny. He was kind of the star of the song! I was very proud!
On Sunday we went up to Boston to go out to eat at the Cheesecake Factory and to the Boston Pops Christmas concert with several of our family members. It is an annual tradition that Steve and I haven't done in a few years but with Caleb's love of music we thought he would really enjoy going. We had a very nice lunch and then we walked around the Prudential Center for awhile before the concert and luckily Caleb fell asleep in his stroller.
The concert was very nice and Caleb seemed to enjoy it.
Monday and Tuesday were spent getting ready for Christmas and then Christmas Eve I had to work and Steve was home with Caleb. They let us out of work at 2:00, which was nice, so I came home and we got ready to go up to the Braces. We had a nice Christmas Eve, as always, and of course my favorite part of the night was the games (thanks Corey!) although my team lost this year. Unfortunately, our night didn't go too well. Steve had a terrible cough and since Caleb was in the room as us, Caleb ended up waking up because of the coughing and he stayed awake for about 2 hours in the middle of the night because Steve couldn't stop coughing! It was a very long night.
Christmas morning we opened stockings first.
In their festive sweaters
The kids (minus Winslow) in front of the tree before the presents got started
Homemade stepstool made for Caleb by Daddy
I think he likes it!
The annual "power ties"
We got Caleb a drum set and I think that was his favorite gift!
Some of his new tools from his tool set!
We came home from the Braces on Christmas night and unpacked and repacked to go to Vermont for the weekend. We had a nice relaxing time. Saturday night we had the family Christmas party and then on Sunday afternoon we did our little family Christmas after everyone else had gone.
He loves his new Patriots hat
Opening his stocking
Oh wow! That is what he says when he opens a present
New Patriots Mickey and blanket
We came home on Monday and then we had dinner at my parents' house with the Latimers. We finally got to meet Caleb's girlfriend Nadia, and we found out that Caleb had just proposed so she is now his fiancee! We are very excited for them. We had a very nice supper all together before we had to get Caleb home for bed.
Sleeping on the way home
Love these boys!
Not too much happened on Tuesday and then I worked on Wednesday and Caleb went to Grammy's house. She texted me this cute picture of Caleb "making" orange juice for Grampy.
Thursday was New Year's Day so we were off of work. I requested to sleep in that morning because I pretty much haven't slept in since Caleb was born. So, I stayed in bed until 9:15. Steve actually got to sleep in too because Caleb didn't get up until 7:45. Figures...but it's nice that we both got to sleep in.
We had Christmas with Rad and Jen at my parents' house on Thursday afternoon. It was nice but a little anti-climactic since it was a week after Christmas. We had taken all of our Christmas decorations down earlier in the day and I was pretty ready to be done with Christmas. We had a great time together and everyone got a lot of nice gifts.
His very own apron from Grammy
New fireman outfit from Auntie Jen
So cute! Maybe next year's Halloween costume!
After we opened presents, my parents took us all out to Chinese food. We never go to Chinese food anymore because we love Thai food so much. It was good, but not as good as Thai!
Adorable picture of Grampy and his grandsons
Well, that about wraps up our last few weeks. Here are a few more pictures and hopefully I will get back on track with writing more regularly! Happy New Year!
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