holiday highlights

Well, we managed to survive Christmas again this year! And despite being up halfway through most nights in December, planning 3 birthday parties, attending countless Christmas parties and family events, trying to accomplish Christmas shopping with a 12-month-old in tow, traveling for four days, catching nasty colds, and squeezing in night shifts among all the chaos- we had a wonderful time.

Of course, last Christmas was technically our first Christmas as a family, but Braden was just a few days old and I literally can't remember Christmas happening last year, so we considered this our first Christmas together. For that reason alone, it was lovely.

Here are a few highlights:


Getting to spend quality time with almost all of our family members this year, including my brother and his wife who were in Kenya last year (above).


Braden & cousins
Great-grandparents

4 generations of Seeleys



Of course, waking Braden up on Christmas morning was a thrill:

Look what Santa brought!



Trying out his gifts


Cookies for breakfast!



We discovered that Braden has an unusual attraction to fireplaces this Christmas, and everywhere we went he wanted to crawl in them:




And, of course, all the presents:




Braden in the push-buggy that Grandmom bought him:




But the best part of this Christmas? The joy on Braden's face, day after day, hour after hour. Christmas brought him so much excitement, he didn't know what to do with himself!







Bill, Braden, and I hope you had a wonderful holiday, and we wish you & your families a very happy and blessed New Year.