Christmas with Family :)

We went over to Opa-Opa's place around 2, and Jay had a feast on all kinds of things, he started out with cheese, pickles, then olives... then moved to the oranges and at long last...

chocolate covered pretzels. Oh yum!

After dinner (of which Jay flung the potatoes, had a bite of squash and gagged on the turkey)

Jay placed bows on all the pretty men in our family.

Jon was most excited to get decorated :)

Opa was very patient as Jay mashed bows onto his face.

The finished product was stunning

Jay checked out everyone's stash and made sure to help everyone open their presents :)

He got a little drum from mama & dada so that he could be a rock star one day and bring in the big bucks and buy us a fishing lodge ;) LOL

Then came the barrel.

This was a bit of a tradition for our family, the last time we had done it was when Colton (now 16) was 5 years old. Now that we have a little one in the family again, we had to drag out the barrel.

The barrel is just filled with shredded paper and inside is always a present for everyone (it's always a chocolate letter) along with some cold hard cashola. Opa and Oma always knew how to shop ;) LOL

Jay loved the barrel.

He also was a very good little elf, passing out all kinds of gifts to everyone!

But playing in the paper was SO much fun too!

WHEEEEE!

Just like last year, Opa helped Jay open a bunch of stuff...they were so cute together!

The aftermath...

The only family picture we got of the day

Silly pictures with mama... He was so wound up on sugar and excitment!