We made our annual trip to Arizona for the Holidays. On our first day there, we ventured out to Rawhide with the whole family. Here is everyone at lunch in the restaurant.
We took the little train to nowhere (Jake quote). Sam was very excited about the train. He even left the candy store when I said "let's go ride the train"
We took up the whole train.
Jake and Olivia by the tree at Nana and Pa's house. He was (and still is) very enamored with her.
Here are all my handsome guys (and Olivia) on Christmas Eve at Nana's house. All the cousins and extended family came over for our traditional get together. We played team trivia (Max and I were on the winning team!) and then had catered Macaroni Grill and lots of drinks. We finished with a white elephant gift exchange. The boys got a kick out of this. Cousin Jill got Sam's gift of a toy hammock for the tub...they are still bringing this up daily. We stuffed down some pie, and then everyone departed. We all went to bed early so Santa could come! Which may be why the Jake and Max woke up at 5:45 am!
Poor Olivia! I forced her to pose on the big pile of presents.
Jake and Max were bright eyed and bushy tail on Christmas morning. Nana knocked on our door at 6:05 to say they were up and finished perusing their stockings. Jason said, tell them to wait until 6:30 or 7:00. (Who was he kidding!?) They were ready!!! We let Sam sleep in as he had a little cold.
Jake really loves the show The Amazing Race. In fact he starts asking around noon on Sundays if he can stay up and watch it. It doesn't come on until 8 pm in L.A., so usually the answer is "no, you have school tomorrow". So Jason made a series of clues for "Jake and Max's Amazing Race" They had to put pictures together and go all around the house to find their big present.
Here they are outside finding a clue in the bbq grill. Okay, it was forty degrees and raining, they had no shoes on, and were in their pajamas...What were their parents thinking???
Several clues later...They found new bikes in the garage. They were very excited, but it was too rainy to ride them on Christmas.
Sam got up after the boys were long done with their presents. George Lucas made a little more money off us this year. Sam is totally into all things Star Wars. See the light saber above? Everyone in the family has been whacked with it! It disappeared for a few days, and we didn't bother looking for it until it was time to leave Nana and Pa's. He loves it, and usually takes it to bed with him.
Sam was being super cute with his new Darth Vader shirt. He kept caressing it and saying "dart va va" This is Sam speak for Darth Vader. He had to wear it for two days straight, and cried a river because I took it off to wash it (in fact he is wearing it today!). He had a great Christmas, and it was fun to see him get excited over his new things. We had so much fun visiting with all our Arizona family members, and it is always sad to leave.
We made our annual trip to Arizona for the Holidays. On our first day there, we ventured out to Rawhide with the whole family. Here is everyone at lunch in the restaurant.
We took the little train to nowhere (Jake quote). Sam was very excited about the train. He even left the candy store when I said "let's go ride the train"
We took up the whole train.
Jake and Olivia by the tree at Nana and Pa's house. He was (and still is) very enamored with her.
Here are all my handsome guys (and Olivia) on Christmas Eve at Nana's house. All the cousins and extended family came over for our traditional get together. We played team trivia (Max and I were on the winning team!) and then had catered Macaroni Grill and lots of drinks. We finished with a white elephant gift exchange. The boys got a kick out of this. Cousin Jill got Sam's gift of a toy hammock for the tub...they are still bringing this up daily. We stuffed down some pie, and then everyone departed. We all went to bed early so Santa could come! Which may be why the Jake and Max woke up at 5:45 am!
Poor Olivia! I forced her to pose on the big pile of presents.
Jake and Max were bright eyed and bushy tail on Christmas morning. Nana knocked on our door at 6:05 to say they were up and finished perusing their stockings. Jason said, tell them to wait until 6:30 or 7:00. (Who was he kidding!?) They were ready!!! We let Sam sleep in as he had a little cold.
Jake really loves the show The Amazing Race. In fact he starts asking around noon on Sundays if he can stay up and watch it. It doesn't come on until 8 pm in L.A., so usually the answer is "no, you have school tomorrow". So Jason made a series of clues for "Jake and Max's Amazing Race" They had to put pictures together and go all around the house to find their big present.
Here they are outside finding a clue in the bbq grill. Okay, it was forty degrees and raining, they had no shoes on, and were in their pajamas...What were their parents thinking???
Several clues later...They found new bikes in the garage. They were very excited, but it was too rainy to ride them on Christmas.
Sam got up after the boys were long done with their presents. George Lucas made a little more money off us this year. Sam is totally into all things Star Wars. See the light saber above? Everyone in the family has been whacked with it! It disappeared for a few days, and we didn't bother looking for it until it was time to leave Nana and Pa's. He loves it, and usually takes it to bed with him.
Sam was being super cute with his new Darth Vader shirt. He kept caressing it and saying "dart va va" This is Sam speak for Darth Vader. He had to wear it for two days straight, and cried a river because I took it off to wash it (in fact he is wearing it today!). He had a great Christmas, and it was fun to see him get excited over his new things. We had so much fun visiting with all our Arizona family members, and it is always sad to leave.
2 comments:
You look so happy...
Best for 2009!!!
Sounds like you guys had a great visit and an awesome Christmas. Love all the pictures of the kids. So how is cousin Jill doing? Tell her hi, she was always so fun and cool. =)
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