Christmas Eve

I am horrible about getting my camera out when it is the holidays and we are traveling!  So I don’t have too many pictures from all the places we were at, but I have few.

Our first stop was Jesse’s Uncle Bobby’s house.

Isn’t it funny how little kids just instantly hit it off and play!

These little cousins (literally) only see each other twice a year, Easter & Christmas.

Max found the fudge table when no one was looking and helped himself!  We let him finish it!

Finger licking good!  These kids so have my sweet tooth!  Jesse doesn’t eat sweets.

Maxwell even had to get a little to-go bag of fudge to take home with him.  : ) 

Below is a picture of Maxwell sitting on his Great Grandma Kraemer’s lap.  This would be Grandma Mary’s step-mom.  (Mary’s mom passed away when Mary was a teenager.) 

Max is not my shy one.  He talks to anyone and sits on anyone’s lap.  Notice he is eating more snacks!

Uncle Bobby & his wife, Janice, have a beautiful house!  I was telling her that I love her kitchen and we started talking about tiles and she got her samples out and I found a favorite! 

She sent it home with me and it is sitting in my kitchen to see if I get sick of it.  : )  So far I’m still in love with it!  I love the shiny glass with the rough stone!

Then it was off to my parents house for our family Christmas.  I really didn’t bring out my camera much here.  I had to get it out though when Max climbed into Grandma Great’s lap!  Just because I got him with his other Great Grandma earlier in the day.

Maxwell and Great Grandma Hemmer

Mallory was gifted a leappad2 for Christmas this year and wow!  She is love with it!  I didn’t know I would have to put my three year old on a time limit with electronics.  : )  She had the batteries drained in 2 days!!  I’m not kidding!

She got a little carrying case for it too!  Her favorite thing to play on it is tracing letters.  Which has been awesome for her because she does everything really fast – and this makes her slow down and connect each dot in order for you to move onto the next letter. 

Jesse got his snowmobiling jacket – he wasn’t expecting it!  Big surprise for him.  We saw this a lot – him inspecting every inch of it and reading every label it had.

Max received a Tag Junior to read books  and a remote control car!  I was totally surprised by a kindle fire!  I wanted it to keep track of recipes and create meal plans/menus… oh and to read books!  : )  I’m in love and I’ll be trying out my new plan on it next week!!  My laptop is slowly taking a dive – and I was using my cell phone a lot to look up recipes and well – it is just so tiny and to read recipes with dirty hands… so my kindle can just sit on my kitchen counter and display my recipes!  AWESOME!  Totally nerdy, I know!