The Best of our Christmas

Making funny faces at 6am in the morning

Hayden digging into her stocking

Hayden with half of her huge pile of presents - we went a
little overboard this year

Proof that Jay can hold babies. This is only the 4th or 5th time he has held Vincent, so
Alice told me to take out the camera for proof

Jarrod playing with Hayden's Christmas presents

Vincent with his Great-Grandpa DeLeon. Sorry the pictures are so pixelated. I think
it might be because I uploaded them through Photobucket first

Hayden and the mess of presents behind her

Playing with her toy kitchen. She LOVES that thing. She'll
come up to me and "make" me breakfast. Just this morning I
got a boiled orange, fried-peppered bread, and grapes that
were first baked in the oven and then microwaved

She also loves her giant puzzle. She has a little version of
that and plays with it non-stop, so we figured she'd appreciate
the giant version. It was the first gift she opened and we had
to convince her to open the rest

Vincent with his Grandma

Vincent - 2 months old

Vincent's funky smile

Vincent "punching" Jarrod

It rained Christmas Day - so we went outside to play in it

Grandpa DeLeon had Vincent about 65% of the time. He
never wanted to set him down and we had to really fight him
to make sure he didn't take Vincent to his home to California!

My Airmen =)

Like father, like son... though, I do think Vincent is starting
to look a little more like me

Andrea playing Raving Rabids on the Wii

Uncle Jorge and Hayden playing the soccer balance game
on Wii Fit

He holds up his head pretty well now

Getting kisses from Dad

Christrmas Eve

The embarrassing thing I made Vincent wear. His bib says, "Who
needs Santa when I have Grandma?"




We finally got rid of all of Hayden's pacifiers (she exchanged
them for a Wall-E pillow), but she's been trying to sneak them lately.
She mostly steals them from Vincent. This is her, "You caught
me!" look






All taken right before church started. During mass, the Deacon invited all the children up on to
the steps. Hayden wanted to go too, and was obviously the youngest person on stage. Jarrod had to
go up and get her after a couple of minutes because she kept poking the girl next to her. The girl had
on this colorful dress and you could hear Hayden going *poke* "Red." *poke* "Green." *poke*
"Yellow." The girl was VERY annoyed and looked like she was going to slap Hayden. When
Jarrod went to grab Hayden, I was in tears from trying not to laugh aloud. Hayden is VERY
friendly and we all kind of agreed that the other little girl was being a tad uptight


Jarrod pointed out that they weren't treating Baby Jesus that well...






What I get when I tell her to model her dress. I bought that
dress last year one-size too big in hopes she'd be able to wear it one
more time (success!) For a comparison - this is last year's shot:




She's definitely gotten taller! And grown a lot more hair...


Back to this year... playing at the park after communion




Fail... oh - and as for the socks and sandals - I HATE that. It
was the MIL's doing






At Ihop afterward




Giving Jarrod dirty looks


Blowing spit bubbles




The kitchen we put together for Hayden. I am such a mom now. I can
not WAIT to see Hayden open up all of her gifts. I could care less about
what I am getting - I want to see her face when she sees what she's
gotten


All the presents under the tree (there's a few more). We went a little
overboard this year