HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Stardate 1.1.2010....JUST KIDDING hahaha.
What an exciting new year Ben and I had as we said Happy New Year and went to bed. Yep.

Family Christmas

Well, our first Christmas with John was a success. We were able to attend all of our family parties, go to temple square, have a Christmas Eve dinner with yummy food and spend the holidays with our families. John was adorable as usual and seemed to really enjoy the christmas wrapping paper. (He thought that the presents were neat too) We couldn't have asked for anything better but being together.

Ben with his fake sad face. He got coal for being naughty. BUT, he musn't have been too bad because it was really filled with chocolate.

WOW Mommy and Daddy, Do I get the tree too?

John's christmas haul.

It came with packages, boxes, and bows. Yes sir, we were one of the lucky ones and no grinch stole our christmas. John did try to eat it though.

Christmas traditions

It's our second Christmas for Ben and I as a married couple and the first for our family of three which really got us thinking about which family traditions we wanted to bring from our own families and what we wanted to add that was new.

What's been nice is that our extended family seems to continue the traditions at the Roe and Gerstner family parties and so it's made it really easy for us to make our little family Christmas all our own. We did decide to make a Christmas book like the one that Ben grew up with and to do the family line-up like my family does and Ben is pretty adament about having steak. (men and their meat haha)
One thing is for sure, whatever we do, it will be a special christmas with John as it is his first ever since his existence on this earth. NEAT!

Shopaholic

Hello my name is Marie and it has been 3 hours since my last shop. I suppose what I really am is a look-a-holic. I love to go out and browse, window shop, and so on. And now that I've been blessed with cute John, I can't help but look at cute things for him. Perhaps I should join a group? You know what doesn't help? Commercialized holidays that create such cute things and a Joann Fabric and crafts within 5 minutes of my home.