Stanley's first Christmas

A typical Morris Christmas consists of lots of pressies, lots of food and lots of beer and wine!!

This year was no different... they were celebrating Stanley's first Christmas!

It was a strange Christmas because it was the first Christmas without Nanny... Mum and dad had a quiet Christmas day but then had the whole 'Morris' family over on Boxing day for fun fun fun!

I'm sure that Mum and Dad spoiled Stanley rotten!

Christmas is here again

Another Christmas has arrived and bitten us in the bot and left!

I cannot believe that Christmas has been here and gone again already! It seems like yesterday that Jason and I were packing up all our stuff, celebrating Christmas and then moving back to the States.

Jason, Jesi, Ryan, Jonah and I drove up to Jason's parents house for Christmas this year. We headed up there for about 5 days to chill, eat, snowboard and celebrate Christmas. Everyone was looking forward to Christmas this year because it was Jonah's first!

We decided to go snowboarding, but wanted to head somewhere new. So, were got up and drove to Squaw Valley, which is a very popular and big ski resort. We boarded all day and then decided to stay the night in Reno, Nevada and then go to another new resort the following day. We woke up Christmas day in a Reno hotel room and drove to Heavenly, which is where Jason and I met!

We had Christmas before we went bu took our stockings with us so we all had a little something to open on Christmas day.

We had a great time even though the snow was a little icy! We didn't board on Christmas day in the end because the wind was too strong which meant that most of the chair lifts were closed, but we did have a nice easy drive home which included stopping for a great dinner!

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Jason turns 30 30 30 30 30 30 30!

On Jason's 30th we organised a surprise party for him. It was hilarious because all he knew was that Jesi and Ryan would come down in the evening to see him on his birthday... he did not know that we were planning on surprising him! I took him to Costco thinking that he would want to spend him normal hour and a half in there... but he was tired and so just wanted to go home! Nightmare! What could I do to keep him out of the house for another 45 minutes except run away and hide from him! I hid in Costco for about 15 minutes... he called me saying 'where are you because I am leaving and if you don't meet me at the car I'm leaving without you!

I had no choice but to call in the reinforcements... I called Jesi and told her to call me with the excuse that she needed something from the super market! So, it worked... she called, and we went to Albertsons. Thank goodness we walked down the Coffee Aisle... Jason being a coffee addict, we were looking at all the coffee accessories and that distracted Jason for half an hour! It was perfect!

So, we got home and I walked up the stairs to our apartment talking as loud as I possibly could and stomping as loudly as I could so that everyone in the apartment would know that we were coming...

We walked in and BOOOOOMMMMM... SURPISSSEEEEE!!

Jason was completely surprised and shocked and he was so happy! It was perfect!

Jonah enjoying the sunset

We sat Jonah on the table on our balcony as the sun was setting. He loved looking at the sun and of course at his dad!

He's such as character!

More Stanley!

And he continues to grow into a handsome young boy!

I love getting new photos of Stanley. Its great to see how he is getting big!

I miss not being able to see him in person though!

Our first Christmas Tree

I know that this is probably completely boring to you, the reader, but this is something I am very proud of! I love our first Christmas Tree. We bought it 2 weeks early because I was so desperate to get it up and in our window.

It was great to decorate it and have it up for everyone to see!