Family pics

A couple of family photos from today's Christmas. Just missing Ken in the big pic; he had to work.

Sleepy J!!!

When it was time to take a nap this afternoon during the Diddy Christmas, who was it that got Jasper to fall asleep? Mommy? Nope. Daddy? No way. It was cousin Kyren who grabbed J, went to the theater room and had him asleep on his lap within minutes.

Thanks Kyren! 

The photos are of Kyren and Jasper and then Nat holding J during the same nap.

Diddy Christmas

Adam, Natalie and Jasper celebrated their sixth — and final — Christmas in 2008 Saturday (Hendersons, Wilsons, our own, Wilsons, Trissel side and Diddys).

The Diddy side met at Vik and Amy Vali's house in West Des Moines for the second year in a row.

In Diddy family fashion, there were some very cool homemade gifts traded amongst the 25 or so adults who participated in the annual gift exchange; Nat ended up getting Amanda Hancock's family picture frame and Adam brought home a decorative window/shelf Shani Henry made. Amanda, in turn, took home Adam's shelf and Dini Anderson stole Nat's 'Life. Laugh. Love' pillars.

A special thanks to the Henry family for the 'Jasper and his friends' book!

Here are a few shots from today, with more coming. Jasper and Nat with the 'Jasper' book, Jasper and Adam, Jasper opening a gift from Elijah Hancock, and grandma Debbie with Jasper and Jasper's cousin Jackson Melendez (about 7 weeks older than J).

Visitors

Andrew and Suzy Malloy stopped at our house Saturday morning on their way back home to Carmel, Ind., from Stuart. Thanks guys!

One photo recovered

So ... with the help of some 'recovery software' by SanDisk, I've been able to save one photo from the 40-ish that I deleted this morning.

Here it is.

Great Christmas ... bad news

Jasper's first Christmas was great. He got everything he asked Santa for. Santa brought Jasper a Leap Frog Learn and Groove Music Table (see photo), books, clothes, and much, much more than I can't think of right now.

Normally I would've attached a photo of Jasper playing with the table, but that's where the 'bad news' in the headline comes in. Natalie got a new camera for Christmas, with which we took something like 50 photos yesterday, including J opening gifts at home, at grandpa and grandma Wilson's and at the Weller's.

I tried to upload the blog using those photos this morning but, to my chagrin, I accidentally hit a 'format' key on the new camera — read the damn directions, Adam! — and deleted the photos from the card.

Let's just say I'm none too pleased with myself.

So here's where you all come in. If you took any photos of Jasper (and us) Christmas day, please email them to me at adwilson@dmreg.com.

The photos attached are from another camera. Let's just say these aren't the best of the best, but right now it's all we've got.

Thanks all ... and Merry Christmas!!!

Another Christmas tree

We took a photo in front of a Christmas tree at the Iowa Hall of Pride and now we have one in front of the tree at Raccoon River Lodge.  I'm sure we will continue to build our collection of 'J in front of Christmas trees' photos ... stay tuned.