Merry Christmas from The Pike Family

I'm not sure how many pictures I can get on one post but wanted to share our Christmas with everyone!! After a very late night we attempted to sleep in Christmas morning but it didn't go as planned and we were up about 8:30am!!

Crazy...I know, but such a cute face to wake up to!!

Anyway's, as always we took our traditional family picture around the tree first thing with all the presents before we opened them

and then well, the rest is history!!

"All these for me?!?!"

Gonna be a rockstar!!!

Gifts from Grandaddy Howell

Can't forget about Yoda!

A toolbelt like daddy's!! (kind-of!)

A Gift from Grandpa Jon

A Gift from Nana

Who do you think you are...Santa?

Cuteness!!

Christmas dinner!

Gonna be Mommy's piano player one day!!

He takes this gift thing way serious!!!

"Some assembly required!!"

Woohoo...all done!!

I think he approves!!

Jonathan's gift to Mimi & Opa!

Testing out the "snuggie"

Tuckered out!!!

Trying the Wii out for the first time!!

Go Mimi...multi-tasker you!!!

I just love their faces (lip biting and all!!)

Chillin'!!

The only time we will ever "hit" each other! Boxing rocks...and hurts!!!! LOL

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

It's Christmas Time!!!!

Well, as you can see I haven't written since Thanksgiving because...well...December is the craziest month for The Pike Family!!! From Cantata practices, weekend sings, Christmas shopping (and yes we were the crazy ones out at 5am the day after Thanksgiving), work, Christmas parties, wrapping presents, decorating

picking out trees,

decorating trees,

and holiday baking, to Christmas Cantata's

(with special guest Babbie Mason!),

celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior & spending time with the ones we love!! Even though we were beyond busy we enjoyed being together as a family!!
Jonathan has continued to grow leaps and bounds! He is 15 months old now and has a vocabulary of about a 2 year old!! We were putting up decorations one day and I was casually telling him about Santa (to what a 15 month old can understand)...well about an hour later when I was changing him he pointed to a Santa in his room and said "tanta"!! And so, of course, we had to go get our picture taken with "tanta"!

Every year our church has a candle light service at 11:00 pm Christmas Eve that our family attends as a tradition! And every year our pastor baptizes on Christmas morning (12:00am) which is awesome!! This year he had the opportunity to baptize over 50 people!! What a testimony and memory to be able to be baptized on Christmas morning!! That is something you will never forget! =) We also take the opportunity to get a family picture around our church's huge tree on Christmas morning (12:00am)!!!

Merry Christmas from "The Pike Family"

Mom & Dad with Jonathan

Our best friends Chris & Courtney

Happy Thanksgiving & 14 months old

Thanksgiving is the appointed time for focusing on the good in our lives. In each of our days, we can find small blessings, but too often we overlook them, choosing instead to spend our time paying attention to problems. We give our energy to those who cause us trouble instead of those who bring peace. Starting now, let’s be on the look out for the bits of pleasure in each hour, and appreciate the people who bring love and light to everyone who is blessed to know them. You are one of those people. On Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for you.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Here turkey, turkey, turkey!!! Hehe!

Our Family Thanksgiving 2009!

All full from dinner!

Giving us a mini concert!

"Now how do you work this thing?!?!" LOL

WE LOVE LEFTOVERS!!!!!

Jonathan is also 14 months old now!! It couldn't be a more perfect time with the weather starting to become a little more agreeable for outside play!! I am very fortunate to be able to take Jonathan to work with me and with that he gets to run on 3 acres!! A little boys dream!!! Here are a couple of cute pics of him outside at work!

Oh, and did I mention he LOVES his Opa?!?! ;)