Merry Christmas 2011 & Happy New Year!

Here we sit - completely LAME watching TV on New Year's Eve. :) Oh well...'tis the life of a parent I suppose. Now some parents are still hip, hiring a babysitter while they go out to party. We've never been huge party people when it comes to New Year's so I really don't mind ringing in the New Year with a sleeping toddler and my hubby. Jake thinks we're boring....but....okay, we are. You know it's bad when your parents and grandparents are at parties ringing in the New Year while you sit at home. ;) Haha!


Let me backtrack here and fill you in on our awesome Christmas! What a great Christmas this was for the Soll Family! Silas scored big time on gifts (big surprise) and we had a great fun & family-filled weekend. Jake and Silas started off the weekend in Nevada with his Mom & her family and then we drove to Iowa City Friday night after I got off work and did Christmas with Jake's parents at their house and then with my grandparents, aunts, uncles & cousin. It was a fun day - Silas woke up completely excited to be at Papa & Gramma’s house.

Papa and Silas had fun making music!


The bib says it all! Silas loved GiGi's homemade sugar donuts!!


Silas LOVES Mittens!!


Silas enjoyed the food!



Christmas morning was filled with more presents & discovering his stocking.

Here's Daddy & Silas



Opening his stocking with Daddy


Little stocking treasures


My sweet boy on Christmas morning - he woke up with some crazy hair!




Papa, Gramma & Silas with his new tractor!


He even checked the tires on the tractor.


Oh boy, this is the best!!





More Christmas fun!







All this fun made for a tired boy!


Christmas Day night & day after Christmas, Jake and I were able to get together with some of my best girlfriends from high school & what a sweet, sweet reunion that was!! Some of the girls I haven’t seen for 3 years. Even Silas got to enjoy some time with Steph and Liz.

He is such a ham!











And finally New Year's Eve. It was 60 degrees today (AWESOME!!) and we took full advantage - after we all took a nap, of course. :) Jake, Silas and I all went to the park and had fun outside! How fun to be able to say we played outside in our spring jackets on NYE?!