More Christmas 2009 photos

Here are some photos from Mike’s camera from Christmas Day.

Christmas Day 2009
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Here are a few more of my favorites.

Christmas Day 2009

Gingerbread Sock Monkey Jammies from Nonni went with the Gingerbread Man aprons from Tahni 🙂

Christmas Day 2009

We gave Joseph 2 boxes of Cracklin’ Oat Bran. (With his real gift tucked underneath, but he would have been happy with the cereal which made me smile)

Christmas Day 2009

Christmas Eve 2009

I am trying to catch up on photos from the other camera. Here are a few shots after opening her 1 present on Christmas eve.

Christmas Eve 2009

Christmas Eve 2009

Mike took this after Nadia went to sleep and I just cracked up! ROAR!!!

Christmas Eve 2009

Randy and Jessica’s visit in December

Randy and Jessica came to visit for the annual company Christmas party at the beginning of December. Randy went to work and Jess and I consumed large amounts of delicious food. We introduced them both to “La Playa Maya” and Randy is totally hooked. This was the first visit in a long time where we didn’t make a muffin or cupcake out of the Taste of Home Magazine, but we just ran out of time. I am so happy to have spent 3 days with Jessica.

La Playa Maya

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At the Cheesecake Factory with Laura

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The party was at Ripley’s Believe it or Not/Palace of Wax. We had a great time and the COOLEST thing there is the Mirror maze. Mike and I won one of the raffle prizes and some of the other staff were joking that I couldn’t come to the party anymore because I always win 😉

Palace of Wax 2009
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Palace of Wax

Palace of Wax

Palace of Wax

Palace of Wax

Palace of Wax

Meeting the Grinch

Last month we took Nadia to see “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” done as ice sculptures at the Gaylord Texan hotel. They bring in men from China to do a different theme every year and it’s amazing. When I was buying the tickets Mike and Nadia noticed a “meet and greet” with the Grinch and Mike told me to buy a ticket for Nadia. You can not imagine how EXCITED Nadia was during this time. I showed her these photos today and she started clapping and said, “Awe! So cute!”

There are a ton of photos in this album (just so you know). In the photo below Nadia had just asked me to join her with the Grinch. So sweet.

Grinch - ICE
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Grinch - ICE

Grinch - ICE

Grinch - ICE

Hugging the Grinch goodbye when our time was up.

Grinch - ICE

Inside the actual ICE display.

Grinch - ICE

Grinch - ICE

And one more cute shot from our night.

Grinch - ICE