Taxi

Sometimes his animals are ferried (possibly against their will) all over the place. Here, they get a ride in the police cruiser, but sadly everyone did not fit, so big bear gets to ride on top. Let's hope the driver wasn't wearing this hat over his eyes while the vehicle was actually moving...

Bear goes up...he needed a little help since the thing is as big as him.



All guys into the car.

And here he is telling me a very long string of words that sounded very important about what he was doing. I am getting pretty good at interpreting Bryce-ese but I have no idea what he was saying. That's his serious face.

Bryce the Builder

As you can see from the last couple posts, the worker-man Christmas presents are highly favored this year.

Playing hide and seek with my hat.

Fixing

I'm sure there's something back there that needs fixing.



Yep, this bed for sure needs fixing.



Who is that handsome fixer?

My Hat

These days, if we take off a hat, there is major drama. So he wears them a lot. This one he was originally wearing when he and daddy went outside in the cold to plant the asparagus.


Eating some dinner in my hat.


Playing with animals in my hat (this time I put it on myself).
Hiding under the bed cause mommy was going to take my picture in my hat.

Under the bed in my hat.


Ready for bed in my hat. Did I put him to sleep in his hat? Um, yes, I guess I am that mom.

The Music...

is not playing, but he likes to wear the headphones anyway. Apparently, so does bear.

It's Finally Here!

Christmas eve service in my spiffy outfit:



We all had a major cold, so he was pretty mellow for the service (not his normal mode) and people were asking us if we had been practicing with him. Hmm...at least he was good. Plus we missed the first few songs while he and mommy were back at the car with a massive diaper change. Merry Christmas to me.

I gave in and let him play with the antique Tonka truck so he wouldn't get his church clothes messy while we were getting ready.

Christmas eve the boys watched some Rudolph while I made the Christmas coffee cake. Bryce brought over a blanket so he could sit next to daddy.

Here's one of the tree and loot before we went to bed. Hmm, I wonder what that pyrex pan shaped one could be for me...Andrew was very proud of this wrapping job.



Well, it's finally here, baby Jesus' birthday, and boy was our son excited. When Andrew brought him out to the Christmas tree, he was more excited that the cat was sitting on my lap than to see the presents under the tree, but I think that's probably a good thing.

Baby Jesus got some of Bryce's stocking goldfish.

So the picture is bad, but mostly because he was so excited about this present that he was flapping his arms. It's a tool box.

Ripping into the presents with my hammer. (we had to do them all this way, some of mommy's too)

Cool dude! A helicopter!

Some good books from Auntie Amber.



Then off to Nana and Baba's for a Christmas/Birthday dinner. (And some more fun-thanks uncle Ryan for letting us borrow these)


My Christmas hat!

A Very Halverson Christmas

We went up to Fresno last weekend to celebrate with Andrew's side of the fam. We packed a lot of Christmas into a very short trip, and even got to go out to Dai Bai Dang for someone's 30th birthday (thanks Doug and Shelley!). As if that wasn't enough celebrating, Andrew planned a surprise overnight getaway for me and him to Newport Beach, so we left the kiddo with the grandparents (thanks even more) and took off. He even got a new haircut out of the deal.

Here he is checking out the loot.

Already worn out and we haven't even done presents yet.




Playing with cousin Leah

Stockings! (doesn't he look excited? in the first picture he was already ripping into it and had his face covered)


The whole gang.

Papa reading his favorite book to Uncle Eric.

Wearing my new shark towel.