Christmas on Providence Prairie

We had fun at Providence Prairie for Christmas!  Lots of fun, fun, fun!  We played several games and visited with each other!   Trey and Clair even went and looked at a new car- and got it!

Justus received a Dewalt tool box from Grandaddy and Grammy.  He will receive one tool every Christmas after this until he turns 18 and then he will have a stocked tool box!  What a grand idea!  He fits inside it right now. :)

Playing games while Justus sits on the couch

Justus is chewing on Mommy's hairband

Snuggling with Giraffy

Uncle Trey made a cocoon out of Justus! :)

Playing

Justus watches It's A Wonderful Like with the rest of the family

Christmas at Grandad and Great Grandma Roth's

We headed over to Grandad and Great-Grandma's house on the Monday following Christmas to celebrate some more!  Aunt Jamie hitched a ride with us and we enjoyed our trip over singing Christmas songs!

I received a Willow Tree figurine- a mother and father are holding their baby!

Justus unwraps a gift from Grandad and Great-Grandma

It's a Little People Barn!

His very first John Deere tractor- Model A- just like Grandad's real one!

Grandad showing Justus the workings

Playing with the tractor together

Justus opens a gift from Uncle Toney, Aunt Leah and family

 

We also made new fruit signs for Grandad and Grandma

We had a fun time!

Our Christmas!

The days heading up to Christmas were busy with baking and fruit baskets!  What fun!

A few of the fruit baskets made for our customers

Mommy made a Santa for Daddy too!

Justus found it was just in reach sitting on the table and scraped all of the black icing off and ate it.  You can see that his mouth is all black

Shame, shame! :)

Christmas morning, after worshiping at Pleasant Ridge, we came home and had a delicious turkey dinner!   

We then took some family pictures and opened our stockings.  

Funny Faces!

Presents under the tree

 It was then time for Justus to take a nap, so after putting him down, we all decided to get a little needed rest.  (I had just finished Justus' stocking at 3 a.m. Christmas morning!)

Ahh. . . refreshed from a nap

 When we all woke up, we then opened presents!  

Justus and Daddy are excited to open presents

 It was so much fun! Justus enjoyed the whole affair as much as Mommy and Daddy did!  

The newest stocking!

Justus' new sled

His favorite gift- a pillow pet!  It's his new favorite thing to cuddle with.  He absolutely loves it!

Daddy got a new John Deere billfold and a 3D  Sculpture puzzle of King Tut.

Mommy got a Travelers Calligraphy/Spencerian Writing Kit

And a fuzzy new jacket

All the opened presents!

 We watched some classic Christmas specials, ate supper, and enjoyed each others company until time for bed!  

It wasn't a White Christmas, but a few days later we got our first snow of the year!

We opened the blinds on the window for Justus to see the snow coming down and he started bouncing up and down!

He was born during a large snow/ice storn

Our pretty sign in the snow!

Justus asleep with his new friend

Justus enjoying the new toy box from Grandpa and Grandma Cox

Justus is playing with his new toys

What a wonderful Christmas!

Christmas with Grandpa and Grandma Cox

What a fun time we had celebrating Christmas with Grandpa and Grandma Cox and Aunt Jamie!  We spent some of Christmas Eve there and enjoyed the fellowship offered by family.

Alfonso's Pizza- A Cox Christmas Eve tradition

Justus' name gets added to the bear tree

Our family in front of the Christmas tree (we didn't get a picture of the whole Cox family on our camera)

The stocking Aunt Jamie made for Justus!

Great presents!

Aunt Jamie got World Series shirts for everyone

Daddy helping Justus open a present

A Santa and Stocking sugar cookie for Daddy Bill (my affectionate name for my father-in-law)

A Cherry Pie for Bonnie!  Yummy! 

Our gift for Aunt Jamie

Grandma Cox shows Justus his drum

We got them a book that contains many years of history of Lawrence County

Justus is excited about his toy box from Grandpa and Grandma!

Another snowman gets added to the tree.  I wonder in years to come how many snowmen there will be? :)

Thank you for the wonderful time!  We had fun and we love you Dad & Mom / Grandpa & Grandma!