Christmas Picture overload!

Ballard Family Christmas

This was hilarious! He woke Aunt Em up on the couch and asked her if he could lay with her. Then he said, lets get more comfortable and started taking his shoes off! hahaha

helping Mimi open presents!

Oh, how much things change in a year!

playing with Avery's cool kitchen!

Are these all mine??!?!

Martin Family Christmas

He LOVED his new car from Grandma and Grandpa!

Our very favorite pic of the bunch! John quoted Jackson..."What, I have to wear pants to open presents?!?!"

Ostien Family Christmas. With Uncle Pat! Check out Jackson's face..hahaha

Playing with all the toys Eric gave to Jackson!

Hanging out with Aunt Beth and Uncle Cal!!!

My Uncle Danny took this...classic! hahaha

Making Aunt Jeanne go up and down the stairs!

Our first white Christmas!

We are on the golf course right outside my Grandparents house (in the background)

Checking out the fort some kids built!

playdates!!

Showing Cora how to open one of Dad's presents ;) She is sooo stinkin' cute and we can't wait to hang out with them in Feb!

Mimi babysitting while I went to a cookie swap!

Hanging out with sweet Aubrey and Cort

Look how sweet Jakari is! He is saying, "hey Jackson, it's nice to meet you!" hee hee

Playing with Kaylnn and Jennifer

so cute!!

John could not resist putting music to this picture ;) It was fitting...especially since he is wearing an Eagles shirt!! That is Aubrey (or Adrianne as John said) in the background! hee hee

Santa! and more...

Jackson's official Santa picture!

fixin' the book at Santa's workshop :)...John had just shown him the day before how to really use a hammer!

excited to be in line, but I guess not to see the big man!

He loved the carousel!

Hanging out with Grandpa :)

Grandma came with us to see Santa

Grandma babysitting while we went to see our friend Chad's band play

re-visiting the scene of the crime (it was not that exact step)

his sad picture when he had a 104.5 temperature last week

running around playing while we were waiting to take a carriage ride with Andrea and Tenley.

Andrea, Tenley, me, and Jackson in the carriage.

Boo Boo :(

Our poor little man had his first (of many to come I am sure) real big boo boo. We went on our walk he fell asleep in the stroller. I woke him up and showed him the playground and he immediately wanted down and ran towards it. He didn't even make it all the way to the playground and fell head first onto the step. It got huge (about an inch out) almost instantly and so like any first-time mom would do I freaked out and called the Dr. while putting him directly into the car. Thankfully the park is right next to our Dr.'s office and they saw him right away. They said we could either take him somewhere to get stitches or just get Dermabond put on the cut. They said he was a great candidate for the Dermabond and it was much less painful so we went with that ;) He screamed for 10min while they were doing it and it took 3 of us to hold him down and the nurse to put it on :( Afterwards he was smiling and playing like normal and they said we can expect 2 black-eyes, but that was it! He is one tough little dude!

High Five!

We met Jessi for lunch the other day and she taught Jackson how to high-five! And he did it non-stop the rest of the day :)

Thanksgiving Weekend

This was Jackson last year at Thanksgiving!! He is growing up so fast!!

his "flock of seagulls" hairdo from after taking a nap :)

helping Dad put up the lights

John, Jackson, and Eric

all the "kids" from Thanksgiving

Barbie and Dale with Jackson

He had sooooo much fun playing with Megan and if notice what they are playing with, don't worry they were empty ;)

Grandma!!

Diddy played with him a whole bunch outside and Jackson loved it!!

We had many things to be thankful for this year. Mainly our health, our family/friends, and the love we share for each other. Hope you all had a great time with your family too!