Jackson and Emily's Journey Through Life: January 2011

What a wonderful "White Christmas" we had here in North Carolina. Jackson was a very lucky boy because he got to spend the holiday with both sets of grandparents. Grandma and grandpa Timmons arrived the Thursday night before Christmas. We had a great time eating, drinking, and playing cards, as usual. On Christmas Eve I had to work but Jackson got to spend some quality time with his daddy and his grandma and grandpa Timmons. Luckily, I got off of work early that night so I was able to read him his Christmas story and put him to bed on Christmas Eve. Christmas Day started with mass and then a wonderful breakfast hosted by grandma and grandpa Reid. After that is when the real fun began. It was great watching Jackson open all his presents, although towards the end it became very overwhelming for him and us! He had so many presents to open at grandma and grandpa Reid's and then came home to another load of presents under our tree! After opening a present he wanted to run around and play with it so bad, but we had to make him put it down and move forward or we would have never gotten through the process. Christmas night we had a wonderful pot roast dinner prepared by Toby and his mom.

As we played cards on Christmas night we noticed the snow begin to fall. When we woke up the next day I felt like a little kid on ChristmasQ (or the day after Christmas to be precise) We had approximately 4-6 inches of snow on the ground. This called for a morning of sledding! Good thing Toby and I each got sleds for Christmas. We drove down to a school up the road where a very steep hill falls down to the football field. Toby took Jackson on the sled. It was hard to tell if he liked it or not. He was pretty stoic the entire time we were out there. I think he may have been to cold to smile! We had a great time playing like children, in the snow. It could not have been more perfect that the snow fall occured on Christmas weekend. It was one we will never forget!