Sunday, January 2, 2011

Christmas 2010

We started off by celebrating with Steve’s family the week before Christmas. Unfortunately Steve’s mom was very sick and couldn’t make it, but Steve went over to her house before and installed a webcam for her so she can see Carson more often. It’s been great!! This was the first time our nephew Shawn met Carson. Carson really liked him. Shawn was holding him like a pro. It’s all that practice he got with his little sister! In addition to Steve’s sister’s family, her husbands parents…aka Grandma and Grandpa Kavanaugh celebrated with us as well. Here are a few pictures from the occasion.

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Carson and Cousin Samantha (2.5 years old)

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Carson with Grandma & Grandpa Kavanaugh

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Carson with Cousin Shawn (12 years old)

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Carson with Uncle Jim & Cousin Samantha

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This is the cute Santa bag (which Santa can use for many years to come) and the stuffed Rudolph from Grandma & Grandpa Kavanaugh.

On Tuesday Carson and I headed out pick up Auntie Susan, Uncle Leevi, and Cousin Adam at the Oakland airport and drive up to Nana & Papa’s house. The weather was actually decent on Wednesday and Thursday and we were able to go to the beach and to Old Town Eureka. This was Carson’s first trip to the beach.

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Wednesday night we had dinner with the Brody’s which is always fun!

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Carson and Dianne

Steve flew in on Friday. Carson was happy to see his Daddy!!

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On Christmas day we took family pictures since we were all together and are not sure when that will happen again!

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Here are some pictures from Christmas morning.

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Carson and Cousin Adam (2.5 years old)

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Sitting in his bumbo from Auntie Susan and family playing with his toys from Nana and Papa.

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And here are just a couple of random pictures.

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Adam almost fell asleep on the couch watching Cat in the Hat, but no such luck! He looks pretty comfy though!

Susan did a little mini photo shoot with Carson. Here are a few of my favorites.

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Now that the year is over, it’s time for me to go back to work. Tomorrow is my first day back. Still not quite sure what my schedule is going to be like, but it’s going to be a lot more difficult to go back to work than I thought it would be!! I’ll let you know how it goes! Steve’s going to be watching Carson this week, so it will be an adventure!

5 comments:

Shirley said...

Love all the pictures. It was wonderful to have everyone here for Christmas. It was the best Christmas present ever. Hope everything goes well for you on your first day back to work.

Susan said...

Glad we were able to come out and I was able to love on Carson. Hope all goes well tomorrow...I will be thinking of you.

Unknown said...

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the family pictures! They turned out sooooo good! So glad you got visit with your family for Christmas! I hope your first day back at work went ok -I know how hard it is to go back! Hopefully we'll be able to get together soon!

Trisha said...

LOVE all of the pictures! It's amazing how quickly they change. I can see Steve so much in him now! Glad you all had a great Christmas!
You'll have to let us know how it was going back to work... I cried for the first week, at least... ;)

Amber said...

Those picts are so cute! Especially like the ones with Adam holding Carson and the family ones! Looks like a great holiday. :)