Christmas Day

MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Christmas morning started off with Maia waking up early, so we handed her a bag of food and letter her sit in bed with us. We did get her wrapped up to share a special gift with the Family. If you read her shirt you should get the message.

That's right we are expecting baby Dahlin number 2! At Christmas we were about 12 weeks along and were ready to share with everyone the big news!

I love this picture of my Mom with Maia. My mom was so excited once she read Maia shirt that she gave Maia a huge hug. Maia wasn't quite sure what was going on but she was a good sport about it. 

Once we got the big surprise out of the way, we all gathered around the Christmas Tree to open gifts.

Maia wanted to get into everything but mostly she wanted to play with the birds.

Shannon (who is also expecting about 2 days before me), Cory and Ben.

Santa brought Maia a monkey for Christmas.

Grandma Nelson, Sparky and Maia.

Mom, Scott, Megan, Cory, his dog and Shannon.

Grandma, Papa, and Mom.

Uncle Ben and Maia

We got Maia a stroller for Christmas and she loved it!

We decided we probably should have given it to her at the end because once she figured out what it was she didn't want to let go.

We also gave her some dolls that I had growing up. Unfortunately, she wasn't very interested in them at all.

Someday she might be.

Papa and Mom got new luggage.

More pictures of Maia with her stroller.

She discovered it on the ramp and had a lot of fun playing with it and gravity.

Christmas breakfast.

Bradley, Angie and Crew came over later that day and so did Joseph and his family.

Bradley and Ezra.

Maia and her Daddy.

Christmas dinner.

Scott and Megan.

This Christmas day was really quite wonderful. I'm so grateful for my family and the joy and support they bring into my life. I'm grateful for the opportunity we had to be here with everyone and enjoy their company. Thank you Mom for putting up with everyone and for being such a wonderful host. You truly know how to fill a house and fill a table with such goodness!