Christmas and Birthdays!

Chris gave me some beautiful roses for my birthday, which was a week before Christmas. What a sweetie! We also went snowboarding that day with our good friend Donovan. Of course, this is the best way I can think of to spend a birthday! Later, Chris and Saxon took me out to Macaroni Grill for dinner and the waiter sung "Happy Birthday" to me in Italian...nice.
Merry Merry! We ended up having a great Christmas this year! We were pretty stressed because we didn't have much money for presents, but we ended up getting a lot of help and Chris got a couple random extra jobs, so it turned out awesome. We are so grateful that we were able to get Saxon some great presents, and a new car seat! He is 1 year old now, so he needed a "big boy" seat, and he loves it so far!


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Happy Birthday to Saxon! This is a big one, his first birthday!! And it's just the day after Christmas.
We took him sledding for his first time and he loved it. He kept wanting to go again and again! Later we went to McDonalds and got his first Happy Meal, and he played in the playplace (with my help). It seems like he had a great day.

yay for snow!

I'm so excited that we finally have some snow, that's sticking to the ground and everything! Now it really feels like Christmastime. Saxon was born last year on the day after Christmas, and we are excited to celebrate his first birthday! I don't think he remembers "snow", and he was pretty excited about discovering it.

guess who.......saxon of course!

Well, not much exciting has happened lately..but I always have cute pictures of our baby! He's looking more and more like a toddler now though. His first birthday is this month!
Lately, he's pretty much mastered walking, can bend over and pick things up, dances to pretty much any music, and loves to talk his baby talk! We love our little guy.

Saxon loves to listen to our Ipod. He's often holds the earbuds to his ears, even if there's no music playing! Chris is helping him out by following him around with the Ipod :)
Saxon loves to be outside! We've caught a few more days at the park, even though it's getting cold, some days have been surprisingly warm!

AFGT (Annual Fake Gileadi Thanksgiving)

Every year, my family gets together and holds a "fake" thanksgiving, and celebrate early. This is great, cause that way we get two thanksgivings and can also celebrate later with our spouse's families. This year we unfortunately were missing Daniel and Chava, but we still had a lot of fun, and there were still plenty of us to go around! My family is so goofy and fun, it's always a blast when we get together!!





beat up on Avi time!







mmmmmm *slobber* amy's famous thanksgiving turkey was sooo good!

my pies weren't so bad neitha!

ground of play!

It is so fun to go to the playground with Saxon! Especially when Daddy comes! Saxon is getting so big! He even goes down the slide by himself :)