guenther journey: Family Christmas Day

Paul, Gradyn, and I had a fun family Christmas day today! We went out to lunch, went to the mall to see Santa, and then went to Cody Park.

Gradyn loves the mall because he loves to watch all of the people, wave to them, and try to grab at them! He also loves to ride in the stroller and squeals and rocks back and forth to make it move faster! He is pretty animated! He seemed to like Santa, he checked a couple times to see who was holding him, but was then smiling and laughing! We were a little worried about how he would react to Santa because he has been pretty scared of strangers lately and will definately not let strangers hold him or talk to him. So, Santa must have felt pretty safe to him!

At Cody Park we rode the carousel, had hot apple cider, went on a hay rack ride to look at all of the displays they have set up, and took pictures at all the funny little things they have set up. It was all really fun! And, the weather was actually pretty nice! Not -10 like it has been lately!

After all of that we went to church and then drove around and looked at Christmas lights. Gradyn slept the entire time we drove around and looked at lights. He was exhausted from his big day! It was such a fun day and Gradyn was so excited the whole time! He is so excitable and has a huge personality so it was really fun to see him go crazy and get excited about everything we did!

It was nice to have a relaxing day because we are going to be doing a lot of traveling over the next 2 weeks. We are planning to go to 6 of the Christmas events our families will be having so it will be very nice to get to see lots of family! We are really looking forward to it!

Here are some pictures from our day:

On the hay rack ride!

Riding the horse on the carousel!

Fun pictures at the park! Gradyn loved this! He would smile and laugh and squeal at every one! Even thought it is hard to see that in the picture because his hat covers his face!