Sunday, January 26, 2014

Christmas Break= Happiness

For my Mom's birthday and Christmas this year, Sarah and I (with the help of good ol' Dad!) took Mom to NYC for an amazing girls weekend!!! We saw the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall, went shopping, ate at amazing restaurants, saw the Christmas decorations and had some good quality girl time : )





Max and Justin had a good 3 days together, just the boys! 
My hubby is awesome and would send me pics saying "hi" once in awhile : )

The rest of Christmas break was spent playing, enjoying the fire and "helping" Daddy with projects!



Discussing the fire

"Hot"

About to embark on another "fix-it" adventure... headlamps required!

 Google put together these pics of Max helping Justin replace the light in the laundry room. 
It makes me laugh because its very accurate haha...

Max has really turned into Mommy's helper in the kitchen!

And he takes his work very seriously....

The perfect end to Christmas break was celebrating Christmas with Justins family! 
We loved that all week we knew Max would have another Christmas, but he didnt even know : )

Sandy (Grammy!) always cooks an amazing meal for us. Max likes to supervise. just in case help is needed!

Max is always ready to help anyone open presents... 


Max loves his Scentsy monkey from Grammy and Grandpa!
He does surgery on it everyday to remove and then reinsert the yummy smelling scentsy pack we put in it. 

Sharing is caring : )

Grandpa collects Hess trucks and let Max play with them. Max was so happy!

The best part of these last two pictures are the blurred people in the background trying to catch the new cat! Max kept playing happily while they raced around him, moving furniture and trying to grab the poor scared little kitty!


After doing all of these Christmas posts, its really just a reminder that we have soooo much family who loves us. We are lucky and blessed to live close to almost all of our family and we get to see them not only on special holidays like Christmas, but all year. And I didn't even post pictures of our annual day after Christmas celebration with my Dad's sisters and Grandma! We love you all!

oh my gosh more Christmas hooray!

Per Christmas tradition, after opening Christmas presents at our house, we headed to my parents for breakfast and presents with my family. Christmas is Garon's all time favorite day of the year and involves many traditions and we are so happy to always be a part of it! Sarah always flies in from Denver for Christmas, Garon came and spent the night, and Grandmother came over for the day. It was a party!




Time for presents!

Love this adorable sign- hopefully its a true story soon!

Max is IN LOVE with this backhoe from Aunt Sarah! 


Hilarity ensued when both Garon and Max opened remote control cars!



I got Justin a very cool purple Miracle Tie from Jo Banks with old school football players on it.
 He is more excited than he looks : )

My Grandmother "aka GG for Great Grandmother", got Max a kitchen for Christmas- to be kept at Nanas house since he's there all week while I'm at work! I don't Max could believe it haha.... : )



Garon looking on in amusement.....

Aww perfect gift for my Mommy!

Serving coffee to Pop-Pop

Waiting patiently for a present!

A gift for both Dad and Garon..... matching shirts!! Always a fav of both Dad and Garon : )

Christmas Joy


Yes my amazing hubby surprised  me with a LAPTOP!!!! 
Happiest day of my life! Blogging, pictures, working... i'm so happy : )

He knows he did a good job : )



Mom supervises the whole production and always make sure the day is special for everyone!

Garon's present for Max was a huge hit- Cookie Monster slippers

After Max's nap we had a yummy lunch and Max opened a few more presents.
Max's lunch required a lot of pretend pepper!

The crew.. minus Dad, the photographer : )

Max LOVES umbrellas. 

Max and Daddy are both amazed by his new tool!

Justin and I brought another gift for Max to open- a circus tent!
 Much to Nana's dismay, its still sitting in her house lol.. oops!

Delivering stockings... one of Garon's favorites!

A quick relaxing moment while Max is occupied with new toys and playmates : )

Aunt Sarah is so silly...

A calendar for Grandmother so she can look at adorable pictures of us all year long!

Max put on Garons shoes but was having trouble walking and turned to Uncle Garon for help... 
I love this series of pictures : )



I'm going to end with this picture. 
We'll just call it: "Dance Party that Started for Max's Sake but Continued Long After He Lost Interest"