Noah's First Christmas

 We are a officially a family of 3....still seems so surreal to me!

 Christmas card pictures!

 These two pictures... I want to blow up and plaster all over my walls. They are such perfect captures of his little personality!! Sweet and reserved, and happy. Gosh I love him so much. 

I tried really hard to just be present and enjoy Noah's first Christmas, so I have zero pictures of him "opening presents" or pictures of him with his gifts and different family members. And I am 100% okay with that! I have mental pictures that will always stick with me :) 

Christmas Eve he slept through the night and then woke up a little earlier than usual, around 6:30. I changed him and we came downstairs to sit on the couch while I fed him breakfast. We had the tree on and the fireplace was going, it was the most perfect Christmas morning! Just he and I. That is a memory I will never forget. Josh woke up around 7:30 and came down to join us, we made cinnamon rolls and Noah ate again while we ate breakfast. We opened our stockings and then started getting ready for the day.

We went to Josh's Mom's house first and did our gift exchange there, and then headed to my parents house for dinner and more fun. We did family pictures since Kim was home, that's where the top picture came from. 

After our parties we headed home to have our little family Christmas. We each had just a few presents to open, so we sat by the tree and took turns opening our gifts.  Noah was in such a good mood, so we sat on the floor playing for awhile until he was hungry again. We got ourselves a little snack and cozied up for a Christmas movie and more snuggles. 

Christmas with Noah was already so much more fun this year, I can't imagine how much more fun it'll be next year when he is ripping into the paper (and probably chewing on it...) and a little more excited about what is going on. And I can't wait to start more traditions as a family. 

Overall, it was one of my favorite Christmas's so far. I loved just having a quiet morning and evening, just the three of us. Next year hopefully we can just stay home all day and enjoy our little family. We love seeing everyone but those moments we had were so special, I'd love to have more time for that!