Christmas 2011

I realize this is late, but it's better late than never, right?  =)  We spent Christmas with my family this year and Jeremy's grandma came down to celebrate it with us.  Christmas Eve we went to my Uncle Scott & Aunt Kelly's for super yummy prime rib.  Luckily Santa paid a visit so I could get a picture of Emmett with him.  Emmett did really well and didn't seem to mind Santa at all.  In fact, he tried to grab his nice curly beard as well as his hat lol.  

Christmas morning we opened gifts.  Jeremy and Emmett got matching ties from one of my friends, and Emmett got a white shirt and khakis as well.  They got to wear their new duds to church that day.  They look super cute in them.  =)  Emmett also got some other clothes from Grandma & Grandpa Cress and a cute fleece blanket and pillow from Great Grandma Cress.  From us he got a crinkle book and the Lion King.  We figured he'd probably be more interested in the paper anyway, so it wouldn't really matter what we got him.  Jeremy got some targets, Cinderella Man, 17 Miracles, and some ammo.  I got How to Train Your Dragon (woot!!), some money towards books, Pride and Prejudice dvd (the long one!!).  There were other gifts as well, but they're slipping my mind at the moment.

Here's our first-ever Christmas letter as well:

Merry Christmas!  This year has been an eventful one for us.  In June we welcomed our baby boy Emmett and then later that week we graduated from Eastern Washington University.  It was definitely an eventful week and we are very glad to be done with school.  (At least, for the time being.)

Jeremy enjoyed spending time with Emmett this summer as he looked for a job.  At the beginning of November he was offered a job working at Areva as a material control handler.  However, they wanted him to start less than a week after they offered him a job, so we had to pack up and get moved out quickly.  Jeremy is now enjoying his job and we’re both enjoying being closer to my family.

Myaela is staying home with Emmett and loving being able to spend time with him.  She has been trying out a lot of new recipes lately and is having fun with that.

Emmett is six months old now and becoming increasingly active.  He hasn’t yet started crawling, which we are grateful for, but it looks like it’s not terribly far off.  He has two teeth now and he loves almost all solid foods he’s had.  He has such a sweet little personality and we are incredibly grateful to have him in our lives.

And our family portrait: 

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas as well!