Landry's Visit!

Our awesome friends, Tex and Whitney and Luke, came up to Idaho while we were home.  We loved being able to spend time with them - even if it was a quick trip.  It was so fun to watch Declan and Luke play together again.  We lived next to them in Utah and they played all the time there.  We walked around BYU-I campus, went bowling, went to lunch, and just had fun catching up.  When we were putting the boys to bed Declan kept asking to sleep in Luke's bed with him so we got a picture.  These two boys crack me up!

Thanks again for coming up!  We miss you guys!!

Christmas with the Bennett's

After brunch with Zach's family we drove to Rexburg and celebrated Christmas with my parents and my Grandpa.  It was fun to watch Declan interact with my Grandpa - he's only been around him a couple times and he warmed up really fast.  Actually, Declan warms up to elderly people SO much faster than anyone else.  The lady that lives below us is in her 90's and Declan just loves her - he always asks about Dottie and gives her hugs every time we see her.  Anyway, he loved opening presents AGAIN!  

 He kept going to the BIG present and wrapping his arms around it and trying to pick it up.  We finally let him open it after all the others were open.  He loves his train table!

 How many men does it take to put together a toddler toy?  :)

Christmas with Oswalds

We left for Idaho early Christmas Eve morning and made it to my in-law's house by late afternoon.  They have a traditional Christmas Eve dinner with extended family every year, it was nice to be there for it!  

The next morning we woke up - not too early and opened presents.  Declan was hilarious about opening presents this year.  He had to help everyone else open their presents and he had to throw away the wrapping paper right away.  He totally loved it and it was so much fun watching him.  Afterwards, we had the traditional Christmas brunch and then drove to Rexburg to spend Christmas afternoon with my parents.  Here is a picture overload...

December - before Christmas

Here are some random pictures of Declan from the beginning of December.  He loved the Christmas tree and lights.  Every morning the first thing he wanted to do was turn on the lights and before bed we would turn them off and he would say, "night night Christmas tree."  It was so cute.  

We opened presents at our house a few days before we left for Idaho.  We wanted to give Declan time to play with his new toys before we left for a week.  

 Declan's favorite movie since he was about 18 months old has been How to Train your Dragon.  This is Toothless from the movie and he makes this really annoying sound and has a bright blue light when you press a button.  The morning after we opened presents I woke up to this dragon in my face....thank you Zach for picking out this present.

 Declan with all his presents from Zach and me.  He had so much fun opening presents this year!  It was fun to watch.