Firsts...

Jonah had his very first Birthday. It's amazes me how much he has grown in just one short year.
I am so blessed to have this little special man in my life. One year goes by in a blink of an eye!

Here he is now! He keeps me on my toes. He loves to climb every surface in our house. He finds it thrilling to be dangerous these days. Our little one year old!

On his Birthday Gary brought home a bunch of balloons. Jonah was captivated by them!
We had our very own celebration. His favorite part was most definitely being able to dig his little hands into his very own cake!

I love the cool whip beard in this picture that Jonah is sporting!
We also visited the aquarium for our little guy's Birthday.
He loved looking at all of the coloful fish!
This is too cute, he was doing a backbend trying to look at all of the fish!
We saw all sorts of amazing sea creatures including sharks, sea horses. an octopus, penguins, sting rays, and this sea turtle!
Ryker and Violet looking at the Jellyfish. We had an amazing time at the aquarium.
Happy Birthday to our sweet Jonah Gabriel!
Here was another first, Ryker lost his very first tooth on Jonah's birthday! It was super wriggly and bugging him. I gave him a little pep talk and told him to pull it out on his own. He did!
We also had an awesome time Ice skating for our very first time as a family!
Ryker was able to do it on his own after some practice with his Dad!

Violet loved Ice Skating. Luckily Aunt Summer was there to help me keep her from falling! She wanted to be on the ice the whole time!

Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning with us Abadians.

Christmas Eve.

I love the excitement in the air on Christmas eve. The kids get so excited for Santa to come and bring presents. It makes it fun that they believe in magic. Gary and I stayed up late talking about our most memorable Christmas morning's when we were kids. It was so fun hearing about what he loved, and remembering what I loved about Christmas as a kid. There is one thing that always came up and that was being together as a family. Although, I did get a pretty sweet pair of roller blades when I was a kid that I will never forget!

Our tradition is that the kids get to open one gift before they go to bed on Christmas eve.

It's always Jammie's!

It was funny to me because I expected Ryker mainly, to open his Jammie gift and be disappointed that it wasn't a shiny new toy. But I was pleasantly surprised that Ryker and Violet were pretty darn excited about their new jams. Jonah didn't really mind either way!
Christmas Morning
Most definitely my favorite morning of the entire year. I love watching my kids excitedly opening all of their gifts. They are at such fun ages.
Jonah
Loves Balls. He got plenty of balls and cars to play with.
His brother and sister helped him with opening his gifts. He was mainly so happy about these balls, and his bottle on Christmas morning!

Violet
Just adored all of the princess shoes Santa brought! She lined them all up in a row. Her favorite pair was the Ariel one. At first she didn't really love the idea of Old Saint Nick sneaking into our house in the middle of the night. But now ever since Christmas morning, she's always saying, "Is Santa coming back tonight?" I think she will be looking forward to Santa's visit to our house next year for certain.
Oh Ryker
What can I say? This boy was so fun to watch on Christmas morning. He was shaking with excitement, and shouting out every gift he opened, as if it weren't right in front of our very eyes. He was beyond happy about this B.B. gun Santa brought. He kept calling it a real red rider B.B. gun. He was a hoot!
Below are just some pictures of Christmas morning with us Abadian's.

The kids played in the wrapping paper mess afterwards. Such fun!

I am so thankful for my 3 adorable little children and my hard working husband! I will cherish every Christmas I have with them. They are my heart.