The Conley Crew: December 2011

Saturday, December 31, 2011

New Years Eve

People kept asking what Jon and I were doing for New Years Eve and honestly I forgot it was New Years till late that morning. As you might have guessed we stayed in and hung out. We did make it till midnight probably due to a late feeding for the mister that night but as you can tell by his tired little face at 10:30pm he did not make it till midnight :).

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Christmas Day Brunch

After a great sacrament meeting at church (hymns and testimonies) Brooke and her girlies, Taylor & Hailey, came over for a little brunch (well it was after lunch but I still say it was brunch!). It was so fun to chat and eat and spend time with family. Although we couldn't spend Christmas day with all the family we love so much please know you were in our hearts! :)

We had really good intentions on making it to Jon's aunt's house Christmas day night. I got the munchkin fed and ready to go but at the end of the day, we, Jax included,were pretty worn out. Here is how little man got worn out......

Christmas Morning

Little secret about me.....Being the youngest in my family I had a little naughty streak. On Christmas Eve, my parents usually put us all in the same room before bed thinking we would hopefully stay put. Well my parents, like most had the "you can only get out of bed at x o'clock in the morning". So in my mind that meant I should probably sneak down before anyone else got up to see what Santa brought because if I was the only one that's not technically breaking the time rule. Yeah that was pretty bad but it's not the worse part, I would get so excited about what I saw that I had no choice but to go get everyone up and inevitably I would slip and say what I saw downstairs and I would get in lots of trouble! :)

This year the roles reversed....well kind of. We now have our own little human alarm clock who woke us up relatively early and we were able to share in the magic of Christmas with him! :)

Making our way out to see what Santa brought......

He loved his floor gym......

Then we opened some presents......

Then it was onto breakfast and our classic Christmas morning movie, "It's a Wonderful Life". Someone got quite tuckered out and only made it a few minutes into the movie :).

*How grateful I am for the season to celebrate our Savior's birth. I feel overwhelmingly blessed to have been born & raised in gospel and feel especially grateful to raise Jaxson in it as well. What an amazing gift we have received from Christ and what a wonderful time to celebrate it. :)

Years of Christmas Morning: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Christmas Eve

I can't get over how much having Jax in our family has enriched our lives. Every holiday means that much more and is that much more enjoyable. We just adore our little guy and love being able to share these special moments with him, including Christmas Eve! Love this holiday and the traditions that go with it so much :)