Toy Story Christmas 2010

We got home pretty late for little Nash from our Christmas Eve party so we skipped reading from the scriptures (I regret that now). We did put together a plate of cookies for Santa. Nash doesn't quite get Santa completely. The smile in this next picture is because he thought we were going to go take Santa the cookies and he was getting out of going to bed. :) He went dancing over to the door saying "Santa, Santa, cookies!"

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Nash woke up at 5:30am but I was able to get him to lay in our bed until 6:30am. Then I went down and turned on the tree and called Nash and Darin down. I said "Nash I think Santa came, the cookies are gone!" The expression in the next picture is because Santa ate HIS COOKIES! He said "cookie's gone."

But on the way down the stairs he noticed all the toys and the magic of Christmas set in.

Nash had a very Toy Story Christmas...he was in heaven!

This dragon is an old beany baby that my mom sent (something she found around the house) I put it with all the Christmas toys...it is one of his favorite gifts!

He got so many fun things. Darin and Nash played all morning together.

What a fun Christmas! I think they are going to get even better here on out! Next year I would like to focus more on the true meaning of Christmas. I didn't put out the Nativity this year and I wish I had. This Christmas felt very different. I think I understand why now. My testimony of Jesus Christ definitely has grown over the past couple of days. I feel very grateful for my life and my family! Merry Christmas Everyone!

Christmas Eve...

I absolutely love that we are NEVER alone for the holiday's even living so far away from home. What a blessing it is to be a member of our church. There is always people welcoming us in. This year we spent Christmas Eve at the wonderful Taylor and Stacia Smith house. They are first year ER residence at St. Luke's hospital (rival for Lehigh Valley, but we forgive them). Taylor's parents came into town (they are from Parawon...again we forgive them ;) to celebrate the holidays. It was so nice of them to invite us orphan families to celebrate with them.

We decided to have soup/chili and bread bowls. It was super yummy! ...although I did miss our sushi Christmas Eve. I guess we are going to need to have another Sushi party soon!

This blonde haired beauty is our hostess...thanks again Stacia!

We love the Ockerman's! :)

Isn't our boy such a sweetheart!

Darin became the star of the night when we began playing charades.

People are always so deceived by Darin's quiet/naive manner but the truth is he is a NUT CASE!! The game was to act out a Christmas themed word or phrase. Darin's plan was to get up and do a bunch of random moves such as the moon-walk and then when no-one got it he was going to sit down and angry...haha! Well even with his randomness we always seemed to guess what he was doing. How I don't know! These next pictures are what he did for "Star."

He shot a gun.

Danced across the room. (notice how hard people are laughing...we were dying!)

Acted like a zombie or something.

He melted to the ground.

Then jumped up!

And he was done...haha...and that was "Star" or something like that...sometimes I wonder what in the world I married...other times I am so grateful I have someone so unpredictable....Love ya Darin!

So remember the "The World's Largest Christmas Stocking" well we brought it to the party and let the kids choose a gift. I am sure the parents were so happy to get such random junky toys! :)
Such a fun night! Thanks again Smith family!

The World's Largest Christmas Stocking...

The other day we made a trip to a hardware store that is near our home. They didn't have what we wanted so we were making a break for the door when the worker asked us if we wanted to put our names a drawing for "The World's Largest Christmas Stocking." I said sure and filled out the paper, even though all the toys we saw in the stocking were pretty lame and not for a 2 year old. Then on December 23rd we got the call that we had WON!!! haha...just our luck!

Nash was so excited!

Notice Darin in the top left corner of the above picture...hahahahaha!!! He was getting angry because the stocking was heavy and I was taking too many pictures. :)

yeah a recorder...lucky us! :)

Ya out of that huge stocking this is all we let Nash keep.

Oh Christmas Tree...

Since I was in Utah until the 2nd week of December. We were a little late in getting our tree this year. It is our tradition to go with the Masick/Bova family. (the Ockerman's already picked theirs out.) I love this Christmas tree farm we go to. Christine and Aaron were just looking for a regular size tree...Darin and I were looking for a mammoth of a tree. Since our living room has vaulted ceilings we were in hopes to find a HUGE tree. :) So we split up from the group to find our dream tree.

Aaron, Christine, Emory and CeCe

CeCe is so sweet, she ALWAYS has this cute little expression on her face. I LOVE IT!

I had to clean the church in the morning, and Darin did a night shift so we didn't go to the tree farm until noon. Which is nap time for the Nasharoo. We had a tired little buddy.

To find our mammoth of a tree we had to go for a bit of a hike up a LARGE hill. Nash was sleeping on Darin's shoulder so I had to lug the tree cart up the LARGE hill....whew what a work-out!

Once Nash woke up he was bit of a beast. This cute little picture is actually Nash crying and walking away from us trying to find his way home! ...he wasn't to into finding the mammoth.

After searching and searching we decided on the tree that we thought was the biggest we could see. So while Darin followed the grumpy boy I started chopping. Sadly the grump led Darin to some BIGGER tree's, but I had already cut half way through our tree. :(

Nash was pretty dramatic in helping cut the tree down.

Then he was so mad at us that we cut the tree down!

But he soon got over it when we were reunited with his friend Emory.

As well as when he got to eat lunch, while daddy strapped the tree to the top.

I like our little tradition of hunting down the perfect tree and chopping it down our selves. I am debating on whether we want to go bigger next year or not. This one fit nicely in the corner and it took up half our living room. (less to clean...right!)
Thanks Christine and Aaron for carrying on the tradition. We look forward to next year!