Christmas Eve/Christmas Morning

The “winning” shot in front of the tree this year… usually I shoot a bunch and only one turns out well. This is the one. Unfortunately even this one is slightly blurry.
A LOT of these are crappy because the lighting in this house is so horrible, especially after dark when these were taken, and some of them were easier to correct in Photoshop than others… some just came out awful colour-wise. So sorry in advance.

My mom wanted to put this necklace that lights up on him… he is a very good, tolerant little boy.

SANTA AUGGIE

He should just be glad I didn’t grab the hat with the beard attached to it this year.

No photos of him getting his snazzy presents on Christmas night… I forgot to grab the camera. He got a jolly ball, a brand new bed, and a new fleece blanket (he likes to play underneath it, or I’ll cover myself with it and he dances around outside the blanket wookie-noising at me.)
However, we opened stockings on Christmas morning and I remembered to grab the camera:

What? Dis mine, you say?

Oh yes, IS mine!!

HEAD IN STOCKING SHOT

Digging out the new loofa dog toy.

A brand new little basketball!

Pause to demonstrate to my dad one of the gifts I put in his stocking.

Auggie is tailgate tested, tailgate APPROVED!

Return to the stocking…

This brand new red ball is REALLY great. It was an awesome buy.

Playing with it right away.

All the goodies from the stocking. Considerably less than last year, but hey, there’s a recession going on… and also, he destroys fewer toys now that he’s older so I really, REALLY don’t need to buy him more. =P He has plenty.

Posing with his goodies!

Then we just hung out and played all day. It was nice to spend a day just hanging out with my little guy.

This is his new bed! At first he wasn’t sure if he liked it, so I told him I had the receipt and we could take it back, but then he changed his mind… he likes it a lot.

Staring some more at the Christmas tree… he really loves Christmas trees. Me too.

OH HAI MOMMY WITH CAMERA

HAAAAAAAAI (oh God this picture cracks me up)

I eats camera?

Layin’ on the floor near Momma!

This was after we played with that ball for about an hour. He was tired, so he went back to his bed.

Tired… so tired… so…

snznzzzkzzz

THEN WE HAD SOME SNOWS SO WE PUT ON OUR COATS AND WENT TO PLAY IN IT

I didn’t get a good shot of the back of his coat, but it has skulls and crossbones on it and says “ROCK STAR.”

Obviously we didn’t really get MUCH snow, and the wind was seriously awful. The temperature wasn’t too cold on it’s own, but the wind was super brutal, biting and strong. So we didn’t stay out long at all… we went back inside to play some more instead!

(I trimmed Auggie’s feet up today so they look much better now than they do in these pics. I honestly DO groom my dog, I promise.)