Festival of Trees

Per our annual tradition, on the weekend after Thanksgiving I headed off to the Festival of Trees with my parents, Sarah and Garon, while Justin went hunting. This year I got to bring my cutie pie Max!

"Come on Mommy.. I'm ready to go!"

 Max was excited to be there.. SO MUCH to look at. : )

 Pop-Pop gave him the best view

Max couldn't get enough of the blinking Christmas lights!

Last year and this year... wow!!

Max was a little angel all day. I cant get enough of this little cutie!

Max loved watching the train and Aunt Sarah was in charge of making sure he didn't try to ride it. I don't think gently holding onto the back of his shirt will be enough to contain him next year...

I wasn't planning on having Max sit on Santa's lap but once I saw Santa and realized he was the real one, not some fake "helper", I decided they should meet. Max was clearly ecstatic about the whole thing.

Our happy boy : )

Max enjoyed our post Festival tradition of Chickfila. 

Can't wait to take Max next year!

Giving Thanks

It's hard to believe that it is already half way through December. I remember last Christmas when I was very pregnant and we would talk about "next Christmas" and how fun it would be to have a 10 month old scooting around. Well its finally here and I didn't anticipate he would be able to scoot around quite this effectively : ) Max loves the Christmas tree, which involves grabbing at the branches and trying to reach the red beads and ornaments that are somehow just out of his reach. He's been really good about it though and we haven't had to barricade him from the tree yet. We are really looking forward to Christmas morning and giving him the few new toys that we got him!!

Before Christmas is upon us, we wanted to share our Thanksgiving with you:

 We were lucky enough to have two Thanksgiving meals in the same day- best day ever!!

       Max loves to help in the kitchen                                                 "Aunt Sarah came to see me!"

 We love attempting to take family portraits haha

Showing Aunt Sarah all of his toys.. she was impressed!

I don't know why I'm offering Max this whole plate of food!

Thanksgiving includes decorating the Christmas tree and Garon gets the honor of placing the star on the top!