Christmas in Ohio

Christmas has been a long month celebration that we've been too busy to post to the blog! So as usual, we are a little behind on our posts. Christmas this year started out with a trip to Ohio in the beginning of December. I had a work trip planned in Cincinnati for a few days, so we decided that I would stick around for the weekend and Brad would fly out so that we can celebrate Christmas with his family and attend our nephew Elliot's baptism.

After Brad landed in Cincinnati, we met up with Tony (a friend of Brad's from college) and his wife Kim for dinner. After dinner, Brad and I drove up to West Alexandria to spend time with his family. On Saturday, we met up with Paul Kersey (Brad's friend from grade school) and his fiancee Leeanna for lunch at Brad's parent's restaurant the Twin Creek Tea Room. We haven't seen them since they got engaged, so it was great catching up with them. Later that evening, we opened presents and had a nice Christmas dinner.

A pic of all of us (minus Kristy since she was the picture-taker) at the dinner table. Also included in the picture is Pat's dad who drove in for Elliot's baptism.
A pic of the group in the family room opening gifts. Of course, the center of attention was Elliot :)
On Sunday morning, we went to church where Elliot was baptised. What a trooper! He didn't cry at all during the ceremony even as his face was dripping with water. He is by far one of the happiest babies I've ever seen. The pic above was taken during Elliot's baptism. Brad and I were part of the baptism since we're Elliot's guardians.
After the baptism, we had to get a few shots of Elliot in his cute outfit. He's laying on a quilt that I sewed for him. I started this quilt when we moved to Portland over a year ago. This was prior to even knowing if he was going to be a boy or a girl :) I thought it would be fitting to sew a quilt for him because Kristy actually taught me almost everything I know about sewing. Though it's only a baby sized quilt, I think all in all this quilt took me over 100 hours to cut, sew, and create. Yes, I'm a little slow at sewing...but it was also my first quilt that I've ever created and I had to learn to complete it on my own.
I love this pic of Elliot. This just shows how happy of a baby he always seems to be.
I forgot to mention that Saturday night we hung out with Kersey, Leeanna, and Greg. We also got to meet Miley, Kersey and Leeanna's adorable new puppy. What a cutie...she was so playful!