Our Christmas adventure began with a trip to the airport to fly to Colorado to meet up with some of the other Vernons. June did a really great job on the flight and basically slept most of the time. She never even made a peep going to sleep and the guy across the aisle was genuinely impressed with how awesome she was. I also learned that if there are two bathrooms in the back of the plane then only one has a fold-down changing table...it was much easier to change her the second time around. Ha! And although I don't think we took any selfies on the way home to document, she was a champ flying home too. It was a mess with long delays and we got home super late and still she was great...especially for a 4 month old! In so many ways we are blessed with calm, happy children.
Flying is half of the fun of a vacation for Leo. We were getting pretty good at playing "airport" so it was great to have the real thing for him to experience. He did a great job too and loved wearing his headphones, using the airplane bathroom (more than once...), and playing with the shade on the window.
We are not selfie pros, but here is evidence that we were all there! This occupied some time as well...
Sweet Junie slept most of the flight and even after we landed and headed to baggage claim. She is just a sweet, sweet baby.
We landed in snow...which Leo thought was cool and kinda weird. We were grateful for a warm car to pick us (and our million bags) up! It was a sight to see us trying to get all of the bags to the car...Nick ended up holding June since the airplane so I lugged all of the bags and carseat and everything off of the carousel and to the door. Leo was more than happy to help with the suitcases!
June was a little confused when she woke up!
But she was so cute in her winter outfits :)
Standing unassisted on Christmas Eve...
Leo wasn't in his matching jammies yet but we tried to get a picture before bed...this is what June thought of it!
Christmas morning came early, espeically considering we were an hour out of our time zone! We tried our best to keep the kids quiet in the basement so others could get some sleep...but after a couple of hours Leo just couldn't wait any longer. We headed upstairs to quietly get some breakfast and wait for others to trickle into the kitchen. Once everyone was up it was finally time to go see what Santa had brought!
Leo was thrilled with every thing, even his new underwear in his stocking! The holidays are really fun at this age!
Sweet June had been up so long that it was time for her morning nap by the time we actually were heading in to check out our stockings. She did ok to stay up a little longer and let us help her through her stocking, but that was about it. Then we had to excuse ourselves from the fun and lay her down. Nick and I took turns missing out as we tried to get her to actually rest alone while the other tried to hold off Leo opening more gifts until the other parent returned.
Santa knew that our suitcases would be overflowing as it was, so he left a picture next to our stockings of what he had left at our home. Leo was thrilled for a new bigger bike!
Our loot...after Mom got her hands on it to organize it :)
We ended the day with lots of playing and checking out our new gifts and then a yummy Christmas dinner. The kids stayed up later than usual to enjoy as much Christmas fun as they could handle, but as the day was ending with a beautiful Colorado sunset our "early to bed, early to rise" habits as well as the time change ensured they were the first to sleep that night to dream about all of the festivities that had just taken place :)
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