Christmas #4 - Minnesota

Christmas Day we flew to Minnesota to meet up with Granny and Papa and meet the extended family. It was a whirlwind trip (only a couple days) but it was wonderful to get to see everyone again and introduce them to Jaydon.

Just getting off the airplane and seeing Granny and Papa in baggage claim. I so wish Jaydon would sleep on airlplanes but alas, he just fights it and then is very tired after.

First stop - Aunt Nonnie and Uncle Bob's house. It was pretty late but it was definitely worth it. Jaydon was opening one of his presents and he kept handing each tiny piece of paper to Uncle Bob, it was pretty cute.

The only place he took naps the entire time, riding in the car. Also his first experience with riding forward in a car. He is totally fine size wise to ride forward but we still have him rear facing because "they" say it is safer to keep them rear facing as long as possible and Jaydon doesn't mind.

Going sledding with cousin Nicholas, Granny, and Papa. Nicholas got a new snowboard for Christmas and he wanted to try it out. He did an amazing job for never having been snowboarding before!

Still waking up so he thought he might just rest on the sled.

Nevermind, this is fun!

Jaydon really enjoyed sledding with daddy until he went through a pocket of powder that tossed snow in his face. It was a great hill (I sure don't remember being bounced around so much on a sled before) and we had a great time.

A picture of Nicholas getting to the bottom of the hill.

Trying out the steel drum app on Granny's IPAD while we waited for our food at the Nepali restaurant.

The morning we had to get ready to go we let Jaydon sleep as long as possible. He started out every night in the pack n' play but I would bring him into bed sometime in the early hours and he and I slept together. I could tell he was exhausted by the end of the trip because he just wanted to keep sleeping in.

At Great-Grandma Tozzie's before we left to the airport. Hugging Scout.

Mads enjoying the igloo that a friend of the family, Jay, built.

Jaydon, Papa and Granny next to the igloo.

Family photo. We didn't do a great job of getting photos of everyone and everything. We had a wonderful time and hope to get back there for another visit soon.

A couple not great quality videos of our sledding adventures.