Korenak Christmas

This past weekend Zach, Zane and I headed South for Christmas with Zach's family. This was Zane's first go around at Christmas and he got tons of wonderful presents that he loves. We opened Christmas presents after lunch on Saturday with the whole family. The presents Zach and I got our niece and nephews had to be saved for Christmas because they would give away what their big gift of the year is, but they had plenty of presents to open from Grammi and Pappa.

Zane had not slept much all morning and finally gave into a nap right as the gift giving got under way, but Zach and I opened his gifts for him while he rested. He got his much anticipated worm quilt, that Grammi had been working on all year. It is adorable and so much fun. He also got puzzles, books, tub toys, a pull toy, a top, a stacker and many more toys he will be able to enjoy for years to come. We really need to get working on the storage shelves downstairs so we have some where to put his haul. Zach and I also loved all of our gifts, Thanks for everything it was wonderful.

The rest of the weekend was filled with family fun as we played with our niece and nephews, cuddled with Zane, caught up with everyone, and of course had tons of tasty food. All of Zane's cousins had fun playing and holding hims, which was absolutely precious. Levi, who is 18 months old, spent most of his time finding ways to get to the advent calendar and eat the M&Ms in each slot. By Sunday pretty much all the of the M&Ms had been stolen by little fingers, that is 25 days with 4 M&Ms in each pocket, leading to the calendar being moved to higher ground. There was a lot of talk about Santa and who was on what list. Adeline was very matter of fact about being on the naughty list, she didn't seem all that concerned about it, but said she was trying to be nicer in hopes of making the nice list. Very funny stuff. On Saturday they all received personal emails from Santa with their very own message, which of course was very exciting.

Zane wore his new Christmas outfit to church which was a disappointment. It was a 6-9 month size shirt/sweater vest combo with pants. The pants were too short, the vest too big, and the long sleeve button up shirt just right. I also impulse bought some shoes to match, the left shoe fit but the right shoe didn't fit at all, very strange and disappointing. So if anyone is having a baby boy I have some really cute boy dress shoes up for grabs, never worn :( ( Jamie, does little boy Jones need some new shoes?) The hat that I bought him at Babies R Us also is pretty tight, it is 6-12mn size which I thought would be fine, since I feel Zane has a cute little head, but sadly not so. I will probably squeeze him into it a couple times, but to sum it up my shopping trip was a bust, sigh.  However, everyone at church was very happy to see our smiley, healthy boy, and it was nice to be able to thank everyone for their continued prayers and support.

Sunday the weather got very blustery with the weather people calling for snow so we headed out earlier than we had planned, but a great time was had by all. The drive back was very windy and we had a a few inches of snow when we got home but we missed the "big storm" everyone had talked about. We got home early enough to put away all our new gifts, build a fire, and get some snuggles in before the crazy work week gets started. It was a wonderful Christmas, we can't wait for the next one in Oklahoma!