Wisconsin: Part II

We packed our bags and headed over to grandma L's house for two days. We started with presents  as requested by Max when we first got in the door.

We then went outside since Max wanted to play in the snow some more.

Max tried to catch snowflakes since there were flurries.

Time to warm up and decorate cookies with grandma. Of course they were WI shaped complete with Bucky cookies.

The next day we headed to Olbrich Gardens to see their train display and the gardens.

Having some lunch at Jac's.

Making ornaments with grandma.

NYE morning started with more projects with grandma.

Pictures with grandma before we headed out for part three of the WI trip.

Wisconsin: Part I

We arrived in Wisconsin at midnight on the 25th/26th and we had many people to see. The most important were the grandparents. It's always difficult to go back to WI and try and see everyone. We feel bad that we didn't get to see so many people, but it's really hard to squeeze everyone in one week. We hope to see everyone on our next WI visit and we are sorry if we missed you this time around.

We spent the first three days at my parents house in SP. We had a mini Christmas on Monday morning.

One of the things Max has been talking about for the past month is how much he wants to build a snowman and have a snowball fight, so we did just that.

It was a little cold for Max so we weren't outside long. We went inside for grandpa and Max to play cars.

Max got to go bowling for the first time. He had a blast with this.

One night Andy and I got out for a date night while Max stayed in with grandma V and grandpa J and made cookies.

On a warm WI day (read 35 degrees) we took Max to the park to sled. He just giggled the whole way down the hill. It was beyond adorable. It made freezing my butt off worth every second.

Andy and I got out another night to see family that I never get to see anymore. It was a lot of fun catching up.

Max loves to play pool and grandma and grandpas. He calls it pool ball.

In no time our three days were up and it was time to move onto grandma L's house, but not before a couple of photos.

Merry Christmas

Max woke up and was excited to see that Santa arrived and brought him all three gifts that he asked for.

The cookies, carrots and milk Max left out were gone, but a note was left from Santa letting Max know that Cookie the Elf went back to the north pole with him. Max was very excited to see that Santa drank all of his milk.

It was present time!

After presents Max had a fun time playing with all of his toys while Andy and I finished some last minute packing for our trip back to WI. We flew out at 7pm hoping Max would sleep on the flight out, but this little boy was so excited to go to WI that he stayed awake for the whole flight.

When we landed Andy went to get the rental car while I got our bags. Max went with me and he was very helpful. He wanted to help get the cart from the machine and spotted our bags come off the conveyor belt. He would help me carry them to the cart and was so helpful in getting the cart out to daddy in the rental car. I was shocked at how upbeat and happy he was considering it was 11pm AZ time and he had a very busy day. This little boy was just so happy to be in WI for the snow and to see his grandparents that being tired was not going to bring him down. He is such a great traveler!

Christmas Eve

I have a lot of updating on the blog to do since we have been very busy here since Christmas. I will start with Christmas Eve.

Since I had a lot to do to prepare for the evening and get ready to head out of town I let Max open a gift from auntie Kelli. It was a marble run and I knew this would keep him occupied for some time while I got things done. He had fun with the marble run.

Cookie the Elf made his last appearance on Christmas Eve morning. Max found it hilarious that Cookie crashed his jeep into the presents and ran over Spider-Man.

We only had a couple people over that evening to celebrate. Max had a blast playing with Tom and Karen.

After they left it was a late night for me and an even later night for Andy as he put together the toys.

In the very early morning I busted Santa dropping off the Xmas presents for Max.

Merry Christmas Eve from us!