REID FAMILY: Finishing 2010 Strong!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year!! We had a great holiday season, we covered a lot of ground and kept very busy but we enjoyed it all!! We started things off on Christmas Eve...that morning we decided to have our own little Christmas morning...just the three of us and Elway. Later that day we headed south...destination Mimi's (Brian's mom)...1st stop, Zaharakos for sloppy sandwiches and ice cream (one of many holiday traditions).We celebrated Christmas this year with Mimi, Scot, Bridget, and Chad....also Capone, Cadence, and Elway (the dogs) and Bentley, Tigra (the cats), and Casia and Siesta (the sugargliders...don't ask)...needless to say it was a packed house!! Christmas morning Brian made our breakfast pizza's (a tradition John started years ago) and Ashton got his first taste...

He loved them (he fits right in). Then we got right to it and started getting into those presents!!! Ashton started out well, he was climbing on Mimi and playing with a big brown box...

and was even willing to help his elders open their presents! ;)

However he faded fast and quickly started refusing presents, and would only lay with daddy

...so we knew it was time for a nap...

This actually worked out well because it allowed us (the adults) to finish our gift exchange and do our annual elf on the shelf challenge. Brian's mom hides the elf on the shelf (who we have named JR) in a VERY difficult spot and we all search for it...the winner gets $20! Guess who won...

After our fun, Ashton woke up right on Que, and we finished his presents. He got a lot of great gifts, way too much, but all great! Here are a few of him in action...

That night Mimi hosted Christmas dinner at her house and the Wright family came over. We had a nice time and dinner was great! The next day we had the Scott family Christmas out at the Wrights. We had great food, fun games, and it was great to see everyone! The next day we took Ashton to Marion Kay to see Kord, Kathy, and Pam (and bonus..Toni) and for Ashton to get to see the plant. It was great to get to see them; Ashton enjoyed helping Scot finish up his day's work,

Then over to help out Kathy,

and then he needed to burn some energy so he went for a run in the spice isle,

and finally a couple group shots!

We finished the day by going out to Molly's (one of Connie's friends) for our annual Christmas dinner at her house. She always has her house decorated to the tee and it is such a cozy place to get to spend a few hours at during the holidays. That wraps up Christmas...the next day was Brian's birthday, and understandably so, he didn't want to do anything so we had the family come over for some pizza and just hang at our house. Then Thursday Scot had a meet and greet with our family and Chad's (Bridget's Fiancée) family. New Years day Bridget and Chad had everyone over for dinner and a slumber party to bring in the new year! Like I said...we kept very busy during the holidays but had a blast!!

Here are a few more pictures capturing the ever growing personality of our son...
serious but cuddly..