Christmas in Utah
We decided a few weeks before Christmas that it would be really fun to surprise Jared's family by being there for Christmas. With the help of his sister we had everything arranged and we were very excited to pull off the surprise. However, the weekend before our scheduled flight Brayden came down with a cold. He spent most of the weekend feeling pretty miserable, and I was really worried about how deep his cough was. We were scheduled to fly to Salt Lake City Monday night, and Monday morning we were at the doctor, hoping that they wouldn't tell me we shouldn't go. They were able to prescribe him some medicine and went by the drug store to pick up the prescription on our way home. Our flight was delayed and Brayden was exhausted by all the travel so the first night didn't help him in his recovery. We got in really late so the next morning we sent Brayden into Grandma Sandy's room for a very special wake up call. She was shocked and it took her a minute to realize that she wasn't dreaming. It was a long day waiting until Grandpa Jerry got home from work for his big surprise. Even though Brayden wasn't in true character for most of the trip I am glad that we were able to spend Christmas with Jared's family. 
Jared's family renewed an old family tradition; booby trapping each other Christmas presents. Jared spent several hours on the project and is already talking about next time. Brayden was too tired to experience the party, but we kept him up long enough so he could tell everyone he was going to be a big brother. 
We went over to see Jared's Grandma and you can tell Brayden wasn't very happy and still feeling pretty sick. 
By Christmas day he had enough energy to get through opening a few presents and playing with some of his gifts. The big hit was his tractors that Santa brought. He opened them first and we had a hard time getting him to open his other presents.
He also liked his piano, I think he thought he was a big boy and could play like his Uncle Adam and cousin Chase. I sure he was a little confused that we were letting him pound away, because while we were staying at Jared's parents Brayden ended up in our bed most nights. Early one morning Brayden had crawled out of the bed without us know and turned on Uncle Adam's keyboard that was in the room and started pounding on they keys. It was about 5 in the morning when we were abruptly awakened by the beautiful sounds.
I was excited that why we were there a snow storm came through, and Brayden was in heaven when he got to ride in Grandpa's tractor to remove the snow. While he was in the tractor Jared's sister came by on their four wheeler and Grandpa turned the blower on them and they got covered with snow. 
We also took Brayden sledding, he went down about three times and only fell off the sled once. 
I think the walking wore him out, because he hung out with me in the car after about 10 minutes. 
We went over to see Jared's Grandma and you can tell Brayden wasn't very happy and still feeling pretty sick. 
By Christmas day he had enough energy to get through opening a few presents and playing with some of his gifts. The big hit was his tractors that Santa brought. He opened them first and we had a hard time getting him to open his other presents.
He also liked his piano, I think he thought he was a big boy and could play like his Uncle Adam and cousin Chase. I sure he was a little confused that we were letting him pound away, because while we were staying at Jared's parents Brayden ended up in our bed most nights. Early one morning Brayden had crawled out of the bed without us know and turned on Uncle Adam's keyboard that was in the room and started pounding on they keys. It was about 5 in the morning when we were abruptly awakened by the beautiful sounds.
I was excited that why we were there a snow storm came through, and Brayden was in heaven when he got to ride in Grandpa's tractor to remove the snow. While he was in the tractor Jared's sister came by on their four wheeler and Grandpa turned the blower on them and they got covered with snow. 
I think the walking wore him out, because he hung out with me in the car after about 10 minutes. 
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