pre-xmas craze...

so the xmas season is here... i am about xmas'ed out already. we started getting ready for the upcoming events by visiting santa at the mall (which is where max thinks he lives) and dropped a small fortune on a couple of pictures. they did come out pretty cute though! after santa he got to go on the train ride, which i think he had more fun doing!!then last weekend we bought our tree and max helped decorate, as you can see he did a bang-up job with the ornaments. he kept insisting the ornaments should be hung off of the bulbs. needless to say we had to do a little bit of re-arranging but we had a good time watching him.

then last week, work had a christmas party and santa called in sick, so i very graciously volunteered mark. (i'm still paying for that) actually he was a really good sport about it. max knew it was him from across the room and now i think he might believe that mark IS santa. he quite seriously asked us if daddy was santa claus. the little girl is avery, she is the daughter of one of the guys i work with, chris. she and max had quite a good time racing all night..

then we had our first snow fall.... a very small amount but enough for max to throw on his new boots and run around in.



to cap off the last week, we did some shopping. max didn't make it into the store, so......