A Belated Christmas Post, Part 2

Gabe and I spent Christmas Day in Indiana with my family and without Aaron :( His unit had to work both the days before and after Christmas so we decided just to head up and stay for the weekend, since we had already celebrated a few weeks before and holidays aren't really a big deal to Aaron.

As soon as we walked in the door, Gabe saw this horse ("Lightning") waiting for him! He loved it at first, but now he has a love/hate relationship with him. He climbs on, pulls his ears to make him sing, whines, climbs off, whines, climbs on, etc. It goes on for hours! Drives me nuts.

Funny story: after getting two horses whose ears make music, Gabe decided to try out the theory on my parent's cat, Rowdy. He walked up to the cat and squeezed his ears multiple times. Feeling slightly rejected that the cat wouldn't sing, HE KICKED HIM! No joke. My child kicked the cat. Where the heck does he get this stuff!? Rowdy was lucky to survive the 4 days we were there... Gabe tends to be a bit rough on him.

On Christmas morning, Gabe woke up and dressed as Santa. This didn't last long as he spilt his juice all over the top, but oh well, he sure looked cute!

Once Brian woke up, we started opening gifts. Bri always has "unique" wrapping ideas and this year, when dad opened his gift, he thought he got a USB toaster! Ha ha ha.

This is box one, of two, of Brian's home brewery system from Kevin.

Brian wondering how he's going to get it home...

Gabe playing with his new stacking rings and cars!

Kevin got mom and dad some adventerous gifts. Dad got an "extreme thrill ride" on a WWII biplane! Mom got a horseback riding day. We're all going to head to Indiana in the spring to watch Dad go up in the air.... wow, he's got to be nervous about it!

After presents, we all got cleaned up and enjoyed a great lunch with Aunt Robin and Uncle Wayne. They made Gabe the cutest little chair, which he LOVES to drag all over the house!

sorry for the poor quality, this is from my phone...

The next day Angie, Tim, Leah, Jacob, and Aunt Cheryl and Uncle Jerry came over for another yummy meal and more gift exchanging.

Gabe kept himself busy by playing with the dog toys...

Leah & her new tutu!

Jake riding Lightning

someday he'll kill me for this, but Baby C got a headband and I made Gabe model it for us...

I hope she's as cute as he is :)

sleepy Gabe playing with his new stacking blocks! He LOVES them!

someone wasn't happy to be awake by this point....

We were so spoiled by our family this Christmas, but the best part of the whole trip was just being together. We can't wait to see everyone again!