Merry Christmas to Us

We are heading down to California next week, so we decided to celebrate Christmas early enough that Max would be able to enjoy his new toys before leaving. A great Christmas it was too thanks to Bryan's parents :). Max woke up and walked straight to the lit up Christmas tree and started pointing at all the presents and grabbed one. It was so cute to see him be all interested in everything and I know next year will be even more great because hopefully by then he'll actually know what presents are. I don't think he managed to open any of them completely on his own though, but we'll work on that. I helped him rip the paper off his first gift and you can just see his face change when he saw that something was inside of it. (I think I chose way more pictures than I intended and this isn't even half of them...)
*The reason why there are almost no ornaments on the lower half of the tree is because Max has pulled them all off.

   

We got these color bath drops and the red makes it look like Max is bleeding out. It still kind of freaks me out.

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Sorry this is late, but I ran out of space to upload any more pictures and it's taken me a while to figure out another way to do it. I still haven't decided if this way is worth it though because it takes about twice as much time to do it. Anyway, last year we went all out on our first Thanksgiving completely alone. This year, Bryan's only request was that I make an apple pie. Bryan was so enthralled with the apple, pealer, corer thingy that he volunteered to do all the apples.

This is how Max spent his time while we made the apple pie.

I love my cute baby boy!

I really wanted Bryan to have the whole turkey, stuffing,...dinner for Thanksgiving because I know that's his favorite part. We saw that Denny's would be open for Thanksgiving and knew they would have to have the traditional dinner there, so that's where we ended up eating.

Bryan was the only one who got the traditional Thanksgiving dinner. I'm not much of a fan of it all.

Denny's is having this awesome Hobbit promotion, so I got Frodo's Pot Roast Skillet for dinner.  

Max was having a tough day for some reason and was whining pretty much the whole time we were there. He managed to only eat a handful of goldfish for dinner. Thankfully the guy behind us was really sweet about all of Max's complaining.  

My apple pie. I'm also not really a pie fan so I only had one slice and Bryan and Max pretty much ate the whole thing.

 Max DEVOURED the pie! He wouldn't try it at first, but I knew he would love it so I forced a piece in his mouth and he immediately turned and grabbed another piece to shove in his mouth. I don't think he even stopped to breathe between every bite!