Our first family Christmas!

Ok, so let me just start by mentioning that I was not trying to take good photos today. Really, I just wanted to enjoy the day and capture the moments as they happened with snapshots, nothing more. I ended the day, or few days actually, with hundreds of pics. They are great to me, even if they are not composed well with good technique. They are time frozen still as Cameron dug into his first stocking, opened his first presents and hammed it up for all of his family to see. I wanted to be able to witness these things through a mothers eye, not just behind a lens.

Ok, enough about that. Christmas this year was GREAT! We had a blast with our little guy! He seemed to love it, too, which was all we intended for. We started the festivities Christmas Eve with Marks side of the family. We always love spending time with them. Cameron was especially social and friendly this night! He "stole the show" as people kept saying. He stayed up until way past his bedtime but did great!

The next morning, we did stockings and gifts at our house, just the three of us. It was fun that way. After Cam's morning nap, we went to my parents house and did presents and brunch with my sisters and brothers and nephew. It was alot of fun. We even brought Cameron out in the snow with his new sled! Next, it was my Aunt Leslie's house for dinner and finally Marks parents house to finish off the night. Again, Cameron made it through the whole day with only one nap and stayed up pretty late! Here are a few of the tons of pictures I took!

First haircut!!

Okay, think back to when Cameron was born: He had the tiniest bit of light brown peach fuzz growing on his head. That stayed around until about a month, when one day, I gave him a bath and when I dried him off, all the hair was gone. Down to the scalp. And he stayed like that through the whole summer. We invested a lot of money into the cute little hat's to protect that bald head of his!! At around 8 months, hair started growing back. Slowly, but surely nice, thick, dirty blonde hair started filling out his head. It was adorable hair, but when it started growing in over his ears and down his neck, something had to be done! So yesterday, just in time for Christmas, Mark and I brought our little baby to the hairdresser for the very first time!! It was a little place in town, called Stylin' Kidz. Its geared towards kids specifically to make it an enjoyable experience for them. Jen, the hair dresser, did a great job! He didn't cry once and stared intently at the mirror, watching the women cut his hair. After it was done, he was excited to see his new hair cut and gave her the smile of approval! I was sad to see his hair cut, especially since it made me feel like he's a little boy now, not a baby. But once I saw how happy he was, I wasn't sad anymore. He's aloud to grow up. I just have to always remember that he'll always be my little bald baby, regardless of everything else. :)

Friends, Family and Christmas Lights!

The countdown to Christmas has officially begun! This past weekend was packed with Christmas stuff. We spent almost the entire day on Saturday shopping for gifts. I swear, it gets harder and harder every year! We have quite a few people to buy for and I think we've got 3 people done! Pathetic! Not only did we not get a lot done, but we some how found a way to spend lots of money regardless!! Oh well, 'tis the season, right?

After we shopped for most of the day, we decided to meet up with Steph, Justin and Ashlyn to go to the La Salette to show the kids the lights. It was freezing out, so we dressed Cam really warm, stuffed him into his Bundle Me and he couldn't have been more happy! He was babbling like crazy and really enjoyed looking at all the bright lights. Ashlyn was pretty funny! She acted exactly like I would have has a kid. She didn't move in her stroller for the first half of the night. She knew it was cold and didn't want anything to do with it. She got used to it, though, and had fun looking around.

On Sunday we had the annual King Family Christmas. The Kings are my mom's side. After years and years of having the party at my Aunt Sharon's house, this year the party took place at my mom's house. Nice short ride for me :) My mom is one of 5 children so all my aunts and uncles and cousins and there kids were there. Never a dull moment! Cameron and Ryan were the new ones to the family this year and a few of my cousins hadn't met them yet. They were a hit, of course! Cam was so well behaved, but such a ham! He is a friendly little guy and will go to almost anyone that wants to play with him. Its pretty funny to stand back and watch him crawl over to some one that he hardly knows and hang out with them. There are lots of kids on this side of the family, too. They were so funny watching them play with Cam and helping him do things. Its going to be so much fun next year when he will be able to actually keep up with all the action! He's getting there!!

Here are some pics of the night:

Tina with Ryan (6 mo), Candace with Will (5), Wendy with Sadie (3), Michelle, Stacey with Cameron (10 mo), Alison with Starla (18 mo), Melissa with Summer (3)

Snow!!

Being in New England, you expect lots of cold, snowy weather. With the warm weather lately, I never thought we would get any! Snow was in the forecast for this weekend, but I didn't believe it. How could it go from 68 degrees and sunny, to a mini snow storm in just a few days? But to my great surprise, we actually got some snow!! I woke up Sunday morning to about 3 inches on the ground. Everything looked so pretty! It was the first snow that I could actually bring Cameron out in too. Being born in January, he was around for lots of snow, but he was to small to enjoy it. This time, I bundled him up in his little snow suit and pretend snow boots (more like waterproof slippers), put on his hat and mittens and brought him out to see what he thought. He had fun! I still didn't want to keep him out long (it was about 5 minutes all together!) but it gave me an idea of how he will be in the cold weather to come. I love to winter and the snow and everything that comes with it, especially snow days, and I hope that he will too. In these pics it sure looks like he likes it!