COULD WE "BE" ATTENDING ANY MORE EVENTS THIS WEEKEND?

We kept James VERY busy this weekend... He attended his first birthday party - a 1st Birthday party for one of our coworker's sons. Then we pulled on our ugly sweaters and attended the annual Christmas parade and Sandy's "Soup and Sweater" party. The next day brought a baby shower for another coworker (and a former coworker). And we finished out the weekend by celebrating our 6th anniversary. I think that's the busiest we've ever been with events here in the Burg...

So, the weekend in photos...

James moved up to his convertible carseat, now that he's such a big boy:

Here is James with Coltin at his birthday party:

And what's worse than an ugly Christmas sweater? MATCHING ugly Christmas sweaters! (We know, technically they're not sweaters, but they ARE ugly):

The "M" is for Mississippi, of course. Even James looks like he's trying to throw signs! And we dressed James in his "Smart Cookie" Christmas onesie as an undershirt... Here we are at the party, in the Photo Booth, with the ugliest sweater we could find for James (they don't really make ugly baby clothes, so we just went with something that was over-the-top cutsie):

Then we watched the Christmas parade from Sandy's balcony (and it was COLD):We think Uncle Daryl and Aunt Margie should decorate their hogs like this for Christmas:

Who invited the Easter Bunny? Just because he's being escorted by an elf...

This was the best float in the parade: Christmas in Neverland!

On Sunday, James learned how to push up into a sitting position from his tummy:Then we went over to Al & Christina's baby shower, which was a couples shower and cookout, complete with the "Baby Olympics". Team Girls was ahead by 2 points (having won the beer bottle guzzle, diaper/onesie change relay, and carseat installation) when we got to the final round, but the boys took the title in the "winner takes all" story telling competition. Both teams cheated a little to gain the attention of the 4 kids in attendance (not that James cared about anything but the new toys available to play with), so I'll concede that it was a fair win. All they won was better beer anyway... Here are the Daddy- and Mommy-to-be opening gifts:And here is some of the gang, laughing it up at something Ned (another Daddy-to-be) must have said:

And finally, to end the party, here is James making his Uncle Davey proud by choosing the guitar over all the other available toys:

We got home in time to give James his bath and put him to bed. Then we had JUST ENOUGH energy to enjoy the fire for a bit before we passed out ourselves at 9pm. These anniversaries just aren't what they used to be...