Busy holiday weekend

Last weekend was an action-packed, fun-filled couple of days for our family. On Friday evening, Brian and I attended a holiday party at his boss' beautiful home. Then on Saturday, Joey attended a 1st birthday party for his friend Arav who lives two doors down from us (Joey even let his folks tag along). Later that day, the whole family (including Grandma) trekked over to Lakeline Mall in an attempt to get a Santa picture. Unfortunately, right as we arrived, Santa was going on an hour break. So needless to say, we did not get the picture taken that day and Joey will not be getting his picture taken with Santa this year.

We had a pretty packed schedule on Sunday too:

First, we all had to get clean and pretty so Joey sat patiently in the bathroom with us.

First stop - a visit to the Neibert house to visit their new baby girl Riley. She was such a sweetie and Joey kept trying to give her love pats. While we were there, Riley's grandma was playing with Joey and said, "Go Blue" to him (she's from Michigan). My boy did me proud and immediately started crying, obviously because everything but UT is pure evil and he knows it!

Joey caught a little cat nap on the way home...

And then we were off to the Boyds' ornament exchange party. Here are Joey and Stormi Boyd in front of one of their eight (yes, you read that correctly) Christmas trees.

Joey and Anna (we used to work together at KW). This is the first time that Joey has not yelled and screamed at Anna, but we determined that it was because we were finally in an environment away from the office.

Joey with the Lauves (newlyweds Daniel and Brandi). They look like they know what they're doing, huh?

And here's a group shot of everyone with their ornaments. What a fun night!