Cole's First Christmas

Well, we had four Christmases really. We had Christmas Eve, which we always spend with the Sharrow (Truedson) family. After church (which Cole slept through), we went back to Grandpa and Grandma Sharrow's house for dinner. There were 21 of us with Cole. After a delicious ham dinner, we got to open presents with the entire extended family. Cole had a blast eating the wrapping paper, but stayed up way too late. The next morning we had Christmas morning with just the three of us at our house. It was fun to have Cole open his presents in his pajamas. After we had opened presents, gotten dressed, had coffee, and fed Cole breakfast, people were finally starting to wake up back at Grandpa and Grandma Sharrow's house, so we went back there for immediate family presents (immediate family being Grandpa and Grandma, Uncle Scott and Mikala, Uncle Todd and Stephanie, and the three of us). After presents we had another delicious meal of steak and shrimp before we headed down to Grandpa and Grandma Iverson's house in Forest Lake for yet more presents and food. Uncle Brad had flown in earlier Christmas day from California. Unfortunately, we are still getting used to the idea that we are parents now and obligated to catch every moment of our son's childhood on camera, so we are relying on our blog-stalking family members to email us some pics from Christmas Eve and Christmas morning at the Sharrow house. Send them on to us, please, you know who you are (ahem, Sandy!)! These pictures are mostly from the Iverson Christmas.