Our Christmas

My Dad spent Christmas in the hospital, unfortunately, but on Christmas Eve, I got to go see him and spend some time with him. His nurse Roman let me listen to his new heart valve which was an incredibly wonderful sound to my ears. Here is a photo of my mom listening with the stethoscope. My Dad is such a trooper. He did so well recovering, they let him leave late on Christmas night. I met my parents at their house and helped them get settled. My Dad says that his heart is the Christmas gift that keeps on giving.

Conrad enjoyed red and green pancakes and made silly faces at me when I asked him to smile.

He enjoyed sipping out of his new snowman sippy cup.

Conrad wore this for Christmas Eve at Grandpa Larry's house:

We opened gifts at my In-laws house Christmas morning. He's at the age now where he can finally rip open gifts,

which is SO fun to watch. Watching your own little ones open gifts makes Christmas so magical.

Conrad got a big bag of safari animals. When he opened the bag he was gasping with excitement and couldn't contain himself.
It was absolutely adorable when he was making the elephant sounds and saying

"ION! ION!" When he saw the lion in the bag.

My favorite Christmas gift this year:

If I could sip this hot sauce with a straw, I would. I can't get enough of it.

For lunch we went over to my brother Vinni's new house. He made lasagna and Italian sausage.

Since he's Italian-he wanted an Italian Christmas. The food was awesome.

When we got home, Conrad opened his gifts from us. We got him a Mr. Potato Head and some horses.

I found him a set of 3 horses. (a mommy horse and 2 baby horses....
but Dustin says it's a Daddy horse and his two masculine sons.
I found the horses in the Barbi section, but Conrad doesn't have to know!)

{I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas as well.}