Happy Holidays/Birthday!

Although we were only able to visit with Aaron's family through a web-cam conference, we had a great holiday season visiting with Julie's family in California. As for the changes since our last posting, there haven't been too many. Joseph continues to grow at an amazing rate. Julie thinks he looks as big as he feels in this picture. He is pretty much exclusively in 12 month clothes now. All of the clothes he received at Christmas fit perfectly! We are so glad he got them too, because he was starting to run out of things that fit! Joseph definitely had a fabulous Christmas. There was a total of 22 people (adults and children) at Julie's parent's house. It was chaos, but so much fun. Joseph was very interested with the shiny wrapping paper and showed interest in some of his toys right away. It was a lot of fun and Aaron took a lot of pictures to remember Joseph's first Christmas and to share it with others. In other Joseph news, he has started eating real solids now. So far he has enjoyed everything except peas. Aaron and Julie are also helping him learn how to sleep through the night. It's only been two nights now, but he is already learning and our quality of sleep has improved drastically! Joseph is becoming so much more interactive now. He laughs, babbles, smiles at everyone, loves to chew on his hands, play with his pacifier, and grab his feet. In the Burnham tradition, Julie's mom made Joseph a stocking. It took us a while to figure out what we wanted to be on it, but eventually came up with an elephant, and we love how it came out. Joseph really likes it too! Even though he can't enjoy most of it, he still got a full stocking anyhow. Aaron really enjoyed Christmas in California. Thoughts of snow in Montana were far away as he wore shorts, sandals and a t-shirt on Christmas Eve. He had to rub it in for his family just a little bit. Overall, this month was lots of fun. Julie was able to see a lot of friends she hasn't seen in a few years. Joseph met his grandma's coworkers at Pueblo Elementary School, Aaron's coworkers at Sears, and many other of Julie's friends. She loves to show him off because he's such a cutie! Aaron doesn't mind because now Joseph gets dragged around instead of him.

Well, as most of you know, on December 30th Aaron turned the big 25! He's officially a quarter of a century old. He's taking it like a trooper. And for the special occasion we went to an old haunt of Julie's - Mongolian BBQ. Joseph enjoyed Mongolian as well, even if he doesn't show it in the photo.

With the new year coming on, we are definitely looking forward. There are some opportunities on the horizon, but we don't know where they might lead us, or which ones we will take. But as changes come, we will let everyone know. For now, Aaron is working, Julie is taking care of Joseph and we're just trying to do our best to enjoy this time in our lives.

As for news outside our small family, Heidi has found out that she and Ryan are expecting a baby boy! As far as we know, his name will be Athen Wilson Davies. If that changes, we'll let you know! Brittny, Justin, and Ashlee are eager to welcome baby Emma into their family. January 10th is coming on fast, though probably not fast enough for Brittny!

We have appreciated all of the help we received from everyone this last while. The gifts for us and Joseph were so generous and are most appreciated. We hope to continue to keep in touch with you all as best we can. We hope you had a wonderful Christmas season and have a wonderful new year!