Various Christmas Pictures!

Christmas Eve - on the way home from Mamaw's. Zander loves his monster trucks!


The train table and pirate train set!!


Our perfect little tree.


Christmas morning!


Vinnie





Christmas morning at Noni & Pappys.



Christmas @ Meme & Poppa's



Jacey

Mick was excited about the cds I got him.



my brother Mike is skinny. no fair!



The piano man.

Christmas Lights!

Zander really enjoyed Christmas lights this year. These houses weren't far from our house. Santa decorates every year!

Zan's third visit with Santa!



Lick!

Zander sings Jingle Bells

Zander funny

I got Zander a "Salty" from the Thomas the Train series.

Zander calls him "Salsa". I.love.it!

Zan's Christmas Pics

My scan's turned out kinda weird, but the pictures look great!

"how you doing it? ya doing it good?"

I love Zanderisms. He's such a cool talker.
"Happy Holidays Mama. Happy Holidays Dada".
"That's a great idea!"
"Oh my shoot!"
"Love you Mama, Love you Dada".

Most of the time if you ask what he wants for Christmas he says "Santa bring me a orange present." And then he'll say he wants "Santa bring me a Thomas Doodle".

Thursday night we were listening to Christmas songs on Sirius in the car. Jingle Bells came on, and that's his song, he knows it and sings it. This was Barry Manilow's Jingle Bells though - and it was a different style so Zander just listened. When it got to "over the hills we go, lauging all the way" he let out a little wimper, put on his sad face and said "No HA HA HA!"

We went to McCormick Ranch Train Park to ride the train tonight. He loved it! He loved watching the models, walking around, checking out the lights and of course, the train ride.

Us on the Train


My arm is too short to get all of us in a picture. (there was something wrong with Zan's eye here but he's better now)

The tunnel

Santa & light display








Then we had pizza at Grimaldi's in Scottsdale........yum! Best pizza ever!
Zander played with some dough.



And here's a bunch of pics I took of him hamming it up the other night, he was eating grapes on the counter in the kitchen.

busy!

We had a busy weekend. Saturday and Sunday we went shopping at a mall with my mom! Yes, we are crazy. Zander was great both days.

On Saturday we went to Mills because my mom wanted to take Zander to Rainforest Cafe for lunch. He was way into it this time, he loved all the animals. Just a few months ago, on his birthday, he was crying he wanted to leave when the 'storm' would happnen and the animals made all their noises.

Then we went to a cookie exchange party with our playgroup at a friends house. They had a giant box of trains which Zander went nuts over! He enjoys trains so much.

Then we went home, Zander ate a snack and we got Doug. We went up to the Target by our house because they were having a Toys for Tots fundraiser with the fire department (my work!). We brought 3 new toys to donate and got to ride the fire trucks! The first time we rode all 3 of us rode in the back of the cab. The second time Zander and I rode in the front! It was so fun. There was 5 trucks there with lights and sirens on cruising all around the buys parking lot, even going over in front of the movie theater and other stores. Zander really enjoyed it. I talked to people from work. Zander got lots of compliments on his firefighter jacket and he sat on Santa's lap.

Then we went over to Doug's parents house where his mom was having a Christmas party for coworkers. Doug's grandparents were there. Zander loves Maw & Paw so much. He sat with them eating nuts out of a basket, he danced for them and talked with them. It was so cute.


Zan out front of my parents house, he loves their light up deer.

Scrapping

It's been over a month since I've scrapped. I've just been so busy. But I think it's been 2 months since I've posted any of my pages here, so now I will. :-)










and now that I look at this I realize we bought 2 cars this year! A 65 Falcon Wagon and a 70 Suburban. wow!

Pics from the last week.

I found Zander sleepng like this the other night, too cute!


Zander helping decorate the tree at my parents house. For some reason he was really into that piece of foam.


That's a Pluto ornament that's probably as old as I am! It's missing it's eyes, Zander didn't care he though the ornaments were cool.


Zander helping Poppa decorate. My parents are the parents who keep every ornament from your children's childhood, including the ones we made. Right above my Dad's head there is a string of popcorn I made in 1st grade, Christian school. It has a cross, an angel, a tree and a bell made out of construction paper the I drew on and decorated with glitter. 1st grade! I can't believe it's survived, we put it on the tree every year.


Zander with our snowman.


Zander accesorized himself before our trip to Scottsdale Fashion Square on Wednesday. I didn't let him wear the canteen to the mall ;-)


After checking out PBK and playing with the train table we headed next door to PB Loco for lunch. The PB stands for peanut butter! Zander was such a good kid during lunch!


Zander looked so cute and I was going to get his picture taken with Santa but he was COVERED in peanut butter. I mean, he dipped his sleeves in it!


Zander loved this sampler and the different peanut butter flavors. He even liked the Asian curry spice peanut butter! I managed to clean him up and roll up his peanut butter sleeves after we were done.


Visisting with Santa. Zander was nervous but he did really well. He told Santa his name and Santa asked if he had been a good boy, Zander said yes. Zander asked for a Thomas "Doodle" (aquadoodle). My mom has Zander all wrapped up in Santa ;-)


He smiled so cute for his picture!