A Toney Christmas, Part 2

It took me forever to get Blogger to cooperate and upload my pictures. I finally had to upload one at a time. Oh well! They're up now!

So to continue with Christmas...the first picture above is Ezra loving on the Christmas tree. He would touch his favorite ornaments with one finger, and tell them "night night" every night before bed. So sweet!

This is just too, too precious.

We made Santa's cookies on Christmas Eve morning. I wasn't brave enough to roll out the dough, cut it out, and go decorating crazy. So, we did the break-and-bake dough, homemade icing, and M&Ms. Ezra helped me put the dough on the pan and said "bye-bye" to the cookies as they went into the oven. Then, I iced them, and he was in charge of M&Ms.

I thought he did great! He was so proud of himself! After he was done, he looked at me and said, "Don't touch." Ha!

Before Christmas Eve services, there was no precipitation. After Christmas Eve services, we had THIS! WHITE CHRISTMAS!!

Ezra was in awe.

Opening his Christmas Eve present...Christmas PJs!

Ezra in his PJs guarding Santa's milk and cookies.

Christmas love from friends and family. We never got around to sending anything out this year ...oops.

Ready for Christmas morning!

First thing he said..."Buzz. Buzz."

Working at the tool bench.

Checking out the stocking.

At the work bench, with his microphone, and his new boots on.

New lion towel! LOVE it! He roars like a lion every time he wears it.

New snow pants from Pops. PERFECT for our day!

Headed out to the front yard!

He loved being out there!

We both fit!

Ezra and cousin Grady

Ezra did this all by himself on the way home from Nashville. He thought he was hilarious. (We did too.)

Playing his "tee-tar" from Uncle Andy and his drums from "Ganny" and "Bad-Daddy."

LOUD house!

We really had a wonderful holiday. We had Christmas morning to ourselves, which was nice because it took Ezra FOREVER to open presents. He didn't want to! We would ask, and he would say no. Strange kid. We did have a photographer come out and do some family pictures, which turned out AMAZING. Can't wait to get those (which means we need to order them first...). That night, we had friends over just to hang out, which was nice. Our schedules are all so different and crazy that we rarely get time to just hang out without some agenda.

We went to early service at church the next day, and then left for Nashville. That afternoon was Christmas with Steven's family, which is always a blast. That night, we went to dinner with my mom, but we had to leave early. Ezra wouldn't stop coughing, and a breathing treatment was the only thing that would help. (Breathing treatment worked, our kid was perfectly fine.)

The rest of the week, we were blessed enough to spend time with old friends who were in town. Normally, we're only in Nashville for a weekend, which means we never have time to see everyone we would like to along with family. This week was different! We were able to see Adam and Denise; Sean, Jennifer, and Kael; Brent and Lynda; Greg and Haley; and Tim, Jessica, and Camille. It was a lot of fun!

We headed home mid-week and got ready for our wild New Year's plans....staying at home! Ezra went to bed, and we stayed up watching TV. We're crazy, I know.

School started back after that, and Steven's vacation was over. So I guess that means we're back in the swing of things. Ezra was so excited to go back to daycare to see his friends. I was ready for a routine again. Which leads us to now!

Sorry this post took so long to get up. I promise I won't always be this late in posting things! Have a happy day!