Happy Holiday season to everyone! I hope everyone is enjoying this fun exciting time. So far I don't have a stitch of holiday shopping done. I hope I make it. I love putting up my Christmas decorations. I have 4 nativity sets in my house thanks to my two moms; 3 of them were from my mother and one was a gift from Jeff's mother. I guess it is the mother's thing to get their children nativity sets. The other day I noticed that Erica rearranged one of them to this.
I thought it was so cute how they are surrounding Mary holding baby Jesus. I don't want to forget why we are really celebrating Christmas. It is so easy to forget because there are a million other things to preoccupy our minds in December. Thanks, Erica, for pointing out what this is all about.
Ben wants to say "Hi" too.
I am so lucky that I get to look at this cute face all day long. He loves to smile. It is so cute when he has been crying and then he gets a glimpse of my face and he gives me one of these faces below. It melts my heart.
It is the most adorable thing to watch him try to talk to me and all of these different sounds come out of his mouth. I can see why several women I know have said to me lately that they are baby hungry. Nothing is sweeter than a little baby.
I did it once a few years ago and I barely made it to the "Y." Then I tried it last week with Ben in a front pack all by myself one morning (because I'm trying to lose this baby fat) and I couldn't make it.
This is a picture of Erica with her Grandpa Anderson, Uncle Steve and Jeff (doesn't it look like Jeff has a swimming cap on. :) He swears it is a hat to keep your head warm while you are biking and it was all he could find that morning.) They hiked to the "Y" with no problem but then they kept going higher and higher and made it up past the "Y" quite a ways.
Isn't she a tough woman? I want to be like her.
