Christmas Eve

We celebrated Christmas Eve at my dad & Shelly's house with our traditional Mexican dinner and songs around the bonfire. It was a lot of fun! We opened presents with Donny's parents that night because they were headed to Elko the next morning. They got Patrick a fun little laptop (so he can stop banging on mine!), some gigantic Legos (no choking hazards there), and a "Fridge DJ" - which is a fancy name for a radio that is magnetic. He loves them all of course!

It's hard to see in this picture, but Grandma and Grandpa Patterson got Patrick this adorable little recliner (we're sitting in it) so he can sit with Grandpa and watch "Mickey" (Patrick's current obsession) at their house.

Happy Birthday Dad!

This post is a little late. My dad's birthday is on December 20th, but I still wanted to wish him a Happy Birthday and thank him for being such a great dad and grandpa!! We love you Dad!

Go Bengals!

The Bengals are on their way to the play-offs, so luckily Uncle Dan & Aunt Cindy sent Patrick a new Bengals shirt to wear every Sunday. We're going to try to go to a play-off game in Cincinnati - stay tuned for more on that.

Aspiring Photographer

Patrick loves to play with anything electronic. I have multiple phone numbers he has "programmed" into my cell phone, he knows the remote control practically better than we do, and he LOVES to play with the camera. So, here are some pics he has taken of himself.

Ok, so I don't think he actually took this one of himself and Daisy (in the background), but the picture cracks me up because I've seen Donny give this exact look a few times! I really didn't contribute much to this kid - he's all Daddy!

Pioneer Christmas Party

We took most of these pictures for Jeff & Asha, but I thought I'd post them anyway. I think Patrick has licked the camera a few too many times, because there seems to be a haze on these pictures! We'll try to get that fixed before the next batch.

Don't we all LOVE Santa?

Um, maybe not so much! Patrick loved seeing Santa from a distance, but when we got up close to him and I sat him on his lap....well, you can see what happened!

In all fairness to Patrick we had waited for almost an hour and it was exactly his nap time when it was finally our turn. Still pretty funny though!