Christmas 2012

We had quite a few Christmas celebrations this year so here is our Christmas in pictures.

Our Christmas started on the 21st at my in-laws house where we opened our presents for each other. Oliver got a new snow shovel. 

Oliver had fun with Grandpa and his new Leap Frog Jr. reader and DVD player in the background that he also received. These came in handy too for the car ride down to the Quad Cities later on in the week. 

I worked then that weekend before Christmas and Christmas Eve but made it home in time for a short nap before going to Christmas Eve service at church.

On Christmas morning we celebrated our Christmas at home. Oliver didn't really understand the whole Santa thing where he comes into your house and brings you presents. We actually forgot to even set cookies out for him the night before. Good thing he didn't know any different. So we had to tell him that today was the day he could open all those presents under the tree. He didn't even get excited about the 3 new presents including a big wrapped box from Santa under the tree.  Piece by piece the wrapping paper came off the presents. Oliver kept wanting to play with each one he opened so it took some coaxing to keep him moving onto the next present. He got a grill from Santa, a game and some paints. As well as many other gifts from Shawn and I. 

Our stocking hung not by the fire with care but by the TV/stereo system of course  

Santa left Oliver some matchbox cars in his stocking which had to come out of the packaging right away.

Oliver is trying to tell Shawn how to put his grill together. I think Oliver did a better job explaining it to him than I because I was getting nowhere with trying to tell him how to put it together according to the directions. 

He's "baking hot dogs" 

After we opened up our presents and got dressed and ready for the day we headed over across the street for brunch with my family.  We opened presents first because there was a huge stack of them and no way were we going to be able to wait until after we ate to open them. Oliver needed some assistance at first and was shy around his cousins and Aunt Colleen and Uncle Darrin but that shyness soon wore off and they all had a great time playing. 

His new dozer 

My little Santa 

The annual Doerscher family Christmas picture (Oliver has started doing this scrunchy face now when he smiles and it just so happened he was doing it here.)

 We headed into Elkader then in the afternoon to Shawn's parents again to play cards and have snacks with the Peterman side. Shawn's parents had a Mickey Mouse electric train set up there for Oliver to play with, it even had real steam/smoke coming out. Oliver loved watching it go around and around.