Joy To The World

This weekend has been a blessing celebrating the birth of our Savior!! Christ's birth truly was and is a joy to this dark and broken world that we live in. I pray that we can begin to instill this into Fulton's heart now and that we continuously remind ourselves why we are celebrating this time of year. It's so easy to get caught up in the decorations, gifts, parties and lights and I am often so guilty of.
This little cutie woke up Saturday ready for Christmas. He is starting to enjoy sitting in his little bumbo seat. The first time wasn't so pleasant, but I think he enjoys it a little now. I am sure he wouldn't want to admit that.

Saturday we packed it up and headed towards Oxford to visit with Matt's fam. We got to see his mom and stepdad, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins galore.

Little buddy had fun. He was passed around from person to person and was such a trooper. After visiting and munching on goodies, it was time to head back to the house and get ready for bed.

Fulton woke up in a great mood Christmas morning and was ready to see what Santa brought. I know as the years come, it's going to be important to balance the focus of Christmas back to Christ's birth and not get too much into the focus of Santa. It's a hard temptation we will have to face.

Matt and I decided to open a few gifts from each other while we were still at home. Matt likes to be a sneaky little booger and had this huge box under the tree for me. I started opening and pulling all this paper out and then I finally got to another small box inside. He did good this year!!! We'll just say there was something for my ears that was really shiny and silver.

Unfortunately, Matt's present after that wasn't that exciting... but it was something he needed. His electric razor quit working about 2 months ago and he has been shaving ole school since. Never knew someone would get that excited about removing some facial hair.

We then headed to KK and Pops house for Christmas with the fam. Fulton opted to keep his PJ's on. Makes for better snuggling.

We all decided instead of doing lunch this year, let's have a breakfast brunch. This was fabulous!! We had gluten free homemade waffles (just for Pops), sausage balls, grits, hashbrown casserole, scrambled eggs and fruit. Yum yum!!

KK and Pops got Fulton this huge stuffed frog. He was excited!! I think he will love snuggling and playing with this thing when he gets a little bigger. It matches the colors in his room perfectly.

We opened some gifts. Pops got some good AL gear, maybe Santa will still deliver those National Championship tickets he is hoping for.

Sister got some new salt and pepper shakers to match her china.

Mom got some cute clothes and jewelry and a new fun red crockpot. I remember my first crockpot years back... it was white and blue with flowers around the top. They sure are making them nicer these days.

The Petersons will now be able to see when the power goes out.

Fulton got some fun toys and some cute clothes from Aunt Keri and KK. This little stinker slept through the gifts.

Matt was really excited about this extra large caulk gun that he got. Really?! What do you do with this thing? If you need anything caulked at your house, just call Matt.

And the aftermath.

Daddy does not like this picture and wants it forever deleted, I think it's funny. Let's just say Fulton finally woke up and was ready to play with all the bows and paper.

After a full day of fun and festivities, little buddy was crashed out. What a joyous day!!!