Merry Merry Merry Christmas!

Well this week has been a very long and eventful one for this Clegg family! It has been so much fun though! It started on Tuesday with the annual Hancock Christmas Party (Shawn's mom's extended family) and what a party it was! There were a ton of people there! I think the highlight though, was Jaden sitting on santa's lap, he was quite intrigued! Of course santa's beard went right in his mouth though...gross!

The next day was not only Christmas Ever, but a VERY exciting day for Jaden! He officially turned 6 months old and got to try baby food! We decided to give it to him before all the Christmas Eve festivities and opted to go with squash!

He seemed to like it alright! He seemed less impressed with it as time went on but nonetheless it was very exciting and fun! He is growing up so fast!

Later that night we went up to Annie and Paul's for a fun Christmas Eve Celebration! Pauls family was in town from the Netherlands, so it was quite the get together and loads of fun! The Norats are always so generous about lending out their home! Thanks guys! Every year the kids get christmas pajamas from my mom, Elizabeth had a quite tramatic experience before this and was not in the mood for pictures...so here's one of Marissa and Jaden!

This is the football that my dad brought to the hospital the night Jaden was born. At the time it was bigger than him, so i thoughy it might be fun to take a picture of him with it at 6 months to show how much he's grown!

When we got home, we got to reap the bennifits of Jaden's new baby food and lets just say that because of that he got to open the pj's mom and dad got him for Christmas!

Our Little Family in our Christmas PJ's

Then it was off to bed for the little one on his first Christmas!

The next morning it was time for more presents! Jaden LOVED his new saucer...especially everything on it that he could eat!

Then it was off to Grandmas and Grandpa Clegg's for Christmas Dinner and yep, you guessed it, more presents! Jaden loves wrapping paper!

What a great week! What a great Christmas! We are so very blessed this year! It was so much fun to have Jaden experience his first Christmas! He was spoiled rotten as usual and loved every minute of it! We are so grateful for the holiday season and all that it represents! For our family and friends, for our health and all the many things we are blessed with every day! We hope you all had an amazing Christmas and took a moment to realize just how lucky you are too! Merry Christmas!

Christmas Pictures!

So today we went to get all the grandkids pictures taken for Christmas!! As most of you know, Jaden is the only boy so far on my side, and I must say quite the little stud! He has the cutest cousins ever though and we actually got a decent pic!

Then Jaden got his own picture taken, just for kicks, It wasn't my favorite but still really cute! I was hoping to get a picture of him smiling, but he was totally done by the time we got to him! Luckily even so tired he could barely keep his eyes open, he was still adorable! Gotta love it! Thats right...thats my kid!

The Happiest Time of the Year!

I'm so excited for the holidays this year! I always love the holidays, but this year, having Jaden in our little family has made them even better than I could have imagined! He is such a good fun baby and we love him so much! This year for thanksgiving we had a relatively small get together, it was just Shawns parents, Grandma and us, it was nice to spend some one on one time together! Shawn and I have SO much to be grateful for and feel so overly blessed! We have eachother, a beautiful, healthy little boy, amazing families, our jobs, the gospel, I could go on and on...and on! I hope everyone takes the time to realize just how much we all have and enjoy the true meaning of this season! Here are some fun pics from thanksgiving and a few bonuses!

Jaden and Grandma Julia! She's a riot!

5 months old and already a car guy! Thanks Grandma!

Shawn and I decided that for our christmas cards this year we are just going to take the pictures ourselves, and...since we have a baby.... we don't have to be in them! :) HOORAY! Jaden is much cuter anyways! So yesterday I went and got a fun little santa hat for him and we took some pictures last night! I guess my philosophy is with a baby this cute, do we really need a professional!? Okay, he's getting his pics taken with his cousins professionally next week, but look at how cute these pics are and you'll see that I mean!

Lets be honest here, he's adorable!

Fingers in the mouth...a very common position!

Our Sweet Little Guy!

I love it! Anyways, thats the latest from us!

Happy Hollidays everyone!