Christmas was a little different for us this year. Not only do we now have Nathan to celebrate with, but because Gary is converting to Judaism, we are not celebrating it in our house like we have in past years, but instead did the celebrating at other people’s houses. We were still plenty busy though!

Christmas Eve was spent with Oma’s family at Big Mom-Moms (Gary’s grandmother). We camped out with Nathan by the food table, which has somehow become our usual spot. Everyone enjoyed playing with Nathan, and he enjoyed all the attention.

Christmas morning is my favorite. We go to Gary’s sisters house to open presents with Gary’s immediate family. Its a warm and lazy morning sitting by the fire, eating a huge breakfast, and opening lots of presents. Nathan got through a couple of his gifts and then got tired and needed a nap. After that he spent the rest of the morning playing with some new toys and having fun with Oma, Opa, Aunt Julie and Uncle Jason. We were lucky that he fell asleep as soon as he hit the carseat and took a nice long nap, because that evening we went to the annual holiday party with Opa’s family.

Cousins Jacob, Ben & Nathan on Christmas Morning

Family Picture, Christmas Morning

Considering how wacky Nathan’s schedule was for the holiday he did really well, and even when he got fussy he was easily distracted by all the new faces. It was fun to see so many family that we only see once or twice a year, and I can’t wait until next year when he can run around with the other kids…though I’ll probably feel differently when I’m chasing him all over the place!

There are more pictures from Christmas here .