Christmas Day!

 Santa gifts!! 

 Austin impatiently waiting for his food (just kidding; this was a staged shot) 

Christmas Eve!

Such a magical celebration at my parents' house! Bittersweet, too, because I've spent every Christmas I can remember there, but I suppose now it's time to continue the traditions here. Luckily my mom and dad will live not even 30 minutes away by this time next year, and we are planning to fly Gail out for the holidays, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Austin and Stephanie will leave the excellent skiing for a week to join us out here in the flatland. Hey a girl can dream, right?

Head of the table! 

 We all laughed so hard at this photo; we said this epitomizes how Austin feels about fatherhood ;) Just look at the "OMG, I don't know what I'm doing!" expression on his face ;)