Baby's 1st Christmas & 2nd Trip to Texas

Our holidays started off in New York for Thanksgiving where we were able to celebrate with both the Hayes and Micho families. We had a great time and Ryan got to meet many new faces including his great-grandma Micho. And as a side note, we drove 8 hours overnight (as to not disrupt the Kings sleep routine), each way and he did awesome!

-Ryan's New York Christmas Loot-

Once back in Virginia we visited Santa in a small, local shop. There was no line, you used your own camera and it was FREE. Ryan checked him out closely and agreed to sit in his lap, briefly.



Ryan also saw Santa when we attended a work event. Not only did Ryan sit on Santa's lap, so did mom and DAD! Sorry, no pics.

Before heading to Texas we opened presents at home for the first time as a family of three. Ryan sat in his bumbo and enjoyed the commotion and the paper.







Then it was off to Texas. I was quite nervous about the plane ride with my very active boy but he did great. After thoroughly checking out his surroundings he closed his eyes and went to sleep in my lap. We celebrated Christmas Eve with the Wheat's: PopPop, Aunt Kelli, Uncle Dustin, Uncle Tristan, Great Grandma Wheat, my cousin Bryce, my Aunt Paula and her husband Rick.



After waking up at Nonna and digging into Ryan's stocking, we headed to over to celebrate with the Cabe clan: Nonna, G-Pa, GiGi, Uncle Austin, my Uncle David, Aela, Lynn, Cherria, and Jeff.












Oh, we ate BBQ on Christmas Eve and Mexican on Christmas. Gotta love Texas!

Because of the bad weather on the East Coast, and the fact we were flying standby, we had trouble getting home. Chris was able to get a flight back (he had to return to work) but Ryan and I had to stay a few days longer in Texas. Ryan smiled and kicked when he saw his Daddy via Skype each day. It was precious.

-Ryan was ok with this reindeer so long as it didn't sing to him-

Overall, we all had a wonderful 'baby's first Christmas'...