Our Fun Christmas

We had such a wonderful Christmas with family and friends! This Christmas marked the very first time in my whole entire life that I have been home for Christmas. :) It was really nice to celebrate Christmas Eve at my parents home and have Christmas Day festivities at our home with my parents, brother, and Jimmy's dad.



Here we are before attending Christmas Eve service. The nursery was packed so we decided to take Jacob with us to the service. He really did great but Jimmy and I are paranoid about disturbing others so Jacob spent part of the service with one of us in an ajoining room. Jacob was served a communion wafer which was pretty neat.

After church we all headed back to my parents house for lots of yummy food. My mom made many of the traditional Swedish foods which we've always enjoyed in Boston at Christmastime. Jacob got his first tastes of spritz, boula, Swedish meatballs, limpa bread, and Swedish cheese and gobbled it all up. Papa was very happy to hear that Jacob is a "good Swede". Although pickled herring is always served we took a group vote and decided it would be left off the Franklin Dahlroos Swedish Christmas menu. :)


Opening presents is always so much fun with our family but having Jacob this year certainly made it extra fun and special. Nana and Gramps (my dad's new and improved grandfather name) gave him lots of fun stuff but his favorite was this tiger. Jacob was too cute when he saw it for the first time!!


Uncle David gave Jacob this ball and it was quite the hit. He carried it around all night!Dad was going on about how he wanted "Kristin's game" and then he opened "Kristin's game"!The biggest laugh of the evening was my mom's gift to Jimmy - footie pajamas! Jimmy has said he wished he could have pajamas like Jacob and now he does. Here are Jimmy and Jacob Christmas morning modeling their footie pajamas! David sporting his "Grillz" (a stocking stuffer from us)
Jacob's favorite gift from Santa was his very own cell phone! GrandDad Porter taking a call from Jacob's phone
Christmas is never complete without seeing wonderful friends! We were so happy to have visits from Matthew, Laura, & Lila and Tyler, Jen, Elle & Kate. Unfortunately we weren't able to catch a good shot of Jacob and Lila because of bedtime but here is Jen and me with Jacob, Elle and Kate.


We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!