It's so fun to be around family during the holidays. In fact it is the best part of the season. This year we were lucky to have Linda (Michael's mom) and my niece Sara visit us for a few days all the way from Maryland! We haven't seen them for quite a while and it was great to be able to spend some time together. One of the highlights of their trip was the outing to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point.
As you can see the museum had lots of fun interactive things for the kids:
and even some for the adults too!
On Christmas Eve we drove up to the Ogden area to visit my Grandad (who still looks great and is as sharp as a tack at 88 years old).
After that we drove on over to Michael's sister Amy's house to spend the rest of the evening and have a traditional Schrader dinner.
Amy's kids Kaylee, (my niece Sarah) and Nick
Jocelyn was a champ the whole time too!
Christmas Morning:
Christmas was such a wonderful day for us. It was exciting to see Jackson get so involved in unwrapping presents and watching his reactions to the gifts. These last few months he was been very captivated by cars. Any kind of cars really, but mostly "McQueen" from the Disney movie Cars. We decided to do a Cars themed Christmas. (Now I never thought I would be one of those moms to indulge a Disney fixation, but his delight in "McQueen" is so fun to watch!) We had Cars wrapping paper, he got McQueen p.j.'s and McQueen slippers! Santa brought an adorable McQueen over-nighter set that included a "pillow" with elastic bands underneath to hold a rolled fleece blanket" I'm sure you get the idea.
The most exciting thing of all though was the bright red tricycle that appeared after all the gifts were unwrapped. Jackson was so thrilled about this "car" as he calls it, that he didn't get off the thing for over 30 minutes!
Jocelyn is so cute! She was so alert Christmas morning, and enjoyed hanging out with Daddy.
2 comments:
Looks like you guys had a wonderful Christmas and holiday season! Jordan actually got quite a few McQueen things as well. He has the same slippers and got a jacket and other items too. Fun times! Your little girl is so precious and growing fast. :) We need to get together so I can see her.
so cute! looks like you guys had a great christmas! sorry i have been sick, the kids are okay, its just me, but i want to take the kids to the dino museum we should plan something for next week!
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