Christmas 2010

After the wedding, we met my parents in Mesa and spent some time with my Grandma Baker. Jacob had to come back to work, so Chelsea and I stayed there until Thursday, then came to Thatcher on Thursday with my parents. Monday the 20th, we celebrated our 5th anniversary! I can't believe it has been that long. It doesn't seem like we've been married for 5 years! My parents watched Chelsea so we could go to a bookstore and look around. We actually went out and celebrated alone while we were at Disneyland, but more on that in the next post!

Christmas was good this year! Like I said, my parents were in town, so that was nice! Jacob's parents were out of town (Jacob's whole family was in Texas this year), so it was just us and my parents. Chelsea must have been a very good girl this year because Santa was very good to her! Other than presents there wasn't much going on that day, so here's some pictures!

Chelsea running out to see what Santa brought!

So excited!

Grandma Melinda wanted to find some stick horses for the kids because they had so much fun playing with them at Fort Bridger. Grandma added the ribbon to the girls' horses. Chelsea loves it!

My mom's cousin came over to see her, so we didn't jump right into presents. Chelsea was perfectly content though. She was so excited about the horse, desk, and the little things in her stocking she wasn't worried about all of the unopened presents under the tree!

Grandpa Monte reading Chelsea the Elmo Christmas Book from her stocking.


I had her open the big stuff first. I figured she would eventually get tired of opening presents and there were some that I was excited for her to open.
She opened her big present, then just waited while daddy and Grandpa opened it. She was so excited about the baby doll! I have never seen a kid so excited about a present before! It couldn't get opened soon enough!

She's holding the baby doll. She didn't want to put it down. Eventually she figured out that it would be easier to open the presents with two hands.
Check out that action shot!

Chelsea did get tired of opening presents, so we just set the other ones in her room for when she wanted to open them. She didn't want to open them that day, but I think she opened them all but one in the next day or so. I guess she just wanted to prolong Christmas! Grandma and Grandpa left that afternoon to head to New Mexico to see the rest of the family. We weren't able to go because we had made plans to go to Disneyland before Derrick decided to get married :). We had fun with my parents and wished they could have stayed longer!

We taped the Disney Channel parade earlier that day, and watched it later while Chelsea played with some of her new toys. She absolutely loves baby dolls. She knows exactly how to take care of them! Now if only she could change her own diaper...

While we watched the parade I was trying to finish up an autograph book for her to take to Disneyland. She wanted to help.

Our excitement didn't end with Christmas, though! The next day I drove to Phoenix to pick up my amazing friend Jessica from the airport! We drove back to Thatcher, then we left for Disneyland Monday morning! More pictures to come! :)