We had such a great time at Christmas this year. It was Max’s first Christmas so we where even more excited to celebrate this year. We started the day off at our house and we opened a lot of fun presents.
Cookies and Milk for Santa and Broccoli for the Reindeers (we were out of carrots)
Gifts from Santa
After we were all done at our house we went to Greg’s parents house for breakfast and to open some more presents.
The New York Gifford's sent our Christmas gifts in a big box this year. Jordin and Max had more fun with that box. They both loved it. They played with it for about a week straight.
It was great this year because we had a new addition. It was Max’s first thanksgiving and he loved all of the new food. We celebrated at Greg’s parents house. We ate way to much and really enjoyed each others company. Here are a few pics.
We started off by shopping for Halloween costumes a few weeks before. I found Max’s at babies r us for 17$ on sale. Which is not bad considering it was originally 40$. It was easier than I thought. Jordin on the other hand is a lot more difficult. He went straight to the costumes that where 50$ with an “awesome” plastic mask and an even cooler fake set of muscles. I am unfortunately for my children kind of cheap when it comes to this stuff. I quickly started to steer him in a different direction. After about 30 minutes in the aisle and several calls to daddy we finally decided on a ninja. Which was great for me because it was 9$ WOOT WOOT!! Greg went and bought some swords and daggers so in all between Max’s costume and Jordin’s I spent 32$. Not to bad
We also carved pumpkins a few days before Halloween. I ended up doing all of the work while Greg took pictures. Max helped by trying to eat the pumpkin seed and tearing up paper. Jordin was grossed out by the “guts” of the pumpkin and started to dry heave. I swear I am the only mom to a 6 year old boy who doesn't like to tear apart a pumpkin.
We went out to Allen to Greg’s parents house to trick or treat this year. We have some friends who live in the neighborhood who also met up with us. It was a fun event. It was Max’s first Halloween so we had a good time with him. Jordin got a lot of candy and was excited to show Max how trick or treating is done :) My friends daughter Mia and Jordin sang Trick or Treat smell my feet pretty much the entire time we where out. It would have gotten annoying but they kept getting the words wrong. So instead of saying If you don't I don't care Ill pull down your underwear, they kept saying if you don't I don't care I see you underpants :) It was pretty amusing.
Here are a few pictures.
I am not sure what was so funny.
We also got to check out the Scarborough Faire and have a few get together while the Boston Giffs were here.
The Scarborough Faire was a lot of fun. The first stop was face painting.
Cole and Jordin got to go on an Elephant ride…I was not so sure about this but we escaped without injury.
We then watched a jousting show. The boys thought this was pretty awesome,
We walked around a little after that and found a ride that the kids wanted to go on.
We saw a very pretty fairy…She gave them all little fairy rocks.
shortly after this the Boston Gifford’s had to leave. Alli got way overheated. They are not used to this Texas heat. We stayed and had lunch and left after that. It was a great day but very hot!
Jordin eating his ice cream snack after lunch.
The Boston Gifford's made it into town this summer again for a two week visit before heading to New York. We had so much fun with them. We really enjoyed watching the kids play and interact with Max. Alli and Avery thought he was so cute. We got to go on a few outings with them while they were here and enjoyed every minute of it.The first thing we did with everyone was head to the Dallas Zoo…Here are a few pictures.
Max was less than thrilled with the crocodile.
All the kids feeding the birds.
After the zoo we headed to Mimi’s( Natalie’s mom) house to play on the slip and slide and to celebrate Avery’s 2nd birthday.
Way to go Alli!!
Woo Hoo Jordin!!
Avery did not go down the slip and slide but she did love the pool :)
We finished the day by having cake and ice cream with Avery for her birthday. Grandmother made an awesome Minnie mouse cake.
Happy Birthday sweet Avery
