Christmas Part II

This post is made up of the pictures from our time at the Gies's house.

As soon as Logan walked in the door he saw the tree and train. Papa showed Logan the train and Logan loved it. He laid on the floor and just starred!
Bobbie laid on the floor with Logan and watched the train with him. Logan absolutely loved it. It was very sweet to watch.

After a couple of days of train watching Logan found even more fun ways to play with the train. He and Papa would line up the big toys and they would watch the train go around together.

The little toys would ride on the train and Logan would say hi every time they drove by. If you look closely you can see the open box car with the little cars in it. The picture below is a close up of the little people on the train car.

Who doesn't love a train ride?

Logan also had a great time playing with Papa. Again, look closely and you will see that Logan is in the bucket of toys that Joe is dragging around.

One night Jason and I went out and Bobbie and Logan baked cookies for Santa. Logan was very specific and he was careful to place sugar on each cookie.

He had so much fun doing this. He still talks about baking cookies for Santa. He was very proud of this accomplishment.

Christmas morning was very fun. We opened so many presents. Logan got overwhelmed because he would open one very cool toy than that would be ripped from his hands only to open another cool toy. He got into the ripping and even enjoyed helping others open their gifts.

A favorite toy for Logan was actually Jason's gift. Jason's mom gave him a Mr. Bill toy that Logan just loved. He would do the little voice and everything. "Oh no, Mr. Bill!"

Uncle David bought Logan this monstrosity. Logan played with it for awhile then all the cousins had a blast in it. It is kind of a soccer field plus ball pit.

We had a fabulous dinner made mostly by Nancy. The kids enjoyed their table and playing together.

We took the opportunity to take some family pictures. Logan was not in the best of moods as you can see here.

Everyone was taking pics at the same time. It was hard to tell which camera to look at.

Jason's cousin Jed had a really nice camera with a timer so we all squeezed together for a big group shot. (This is almost the entire Cusimano clan. We are just missing Jay's family.)

The little cousins all opened their gifts together. There are so many around the same age. It is a blast watching them all play together.

Haley really wanted a pony so Dave gave her this one he won at Dave and Busters. She loved it, obviously!

At the end of the evening the kids settled in the family room and watched Ratatouille. You can see this was an intense part of the show!

We had so much fun seeing everyone and spending this wonderful time of the year together.

Christmas Part I

Well, we have had a lot going on the last few weeks. I have almost 400 pictures so it is rather hard to condense them into a few blog posts. I will break it up and post as many pictures as possible. This post centers around pictures from all the Booth family members coming in for my parents 50th wedding anniversary party.

Mom and Dad opening presents.

Josh and Hadley. Hadley had a great time seeing all her cousins and they enjoyed seeing her too!

On Christmas Day Logan opened presents with my sister Gwendolyn and he loved playing with everyone at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

My dad, "Grandpa Motorcycle" got a motorcycle riding Santa clause who sings, "Born to Be Wild. from my aunts. Logan thought it was very cool.

Logan wanted to wear Gwendolyn's Santa hat, but only when he was opening presents. After that he insisted everyone else try it on.

Christy and Stephanie

It was really fun watching all the "kids" open their presents. The "kids" are much older than they were last time we were all together. Now some are in college and Stephen has graduated. It is still fun watching everyone interact and hang out together.

Stephen and Emily

Eric and Ryan

Hadley enjoyed opening her presents. She really enjoyed reading this book.

Zach doesn't get enough snow at home in Phoenix so Fred let him get up close and personal with this snow pile. (Yes, that blue blob under Fred is Zach.)

We had a fun gift exchange and my dad ended up with this hard hat. He gave it to Logan who enjoyed banging on his head with the hat on.

Hadley

Hannah, Kristopher, and Sarah

Christy and Kristopher

Breakfast with Santa Claus

Last Saturday we went to the Santa Breakfast at the Macy's on State Street. It is a fun tradition we do with Bobbie, a.k.a. Jason's mom. Jason and Emily went out for their own breakfast. It was so fun to see all the kids interacting with Santa dressed up in their Christmas clothes. There were lots of activities to do while we were waiting for breakfast.

Last year Logan sat so still while he got his face painted and he loved it. This year we tried several times to get him to do it and he just refused. He was very decisive about this.

Logan was very happy about the candy cane balloon that he got. It broke once so he took it up to the man and asked for him to fix it.

The breakfast was really good this year and Logan was really into it. He wanted to stop playing so we could go back to our table and eat.

After breakfast we went to get in line to see Santa, but Logan didn't really get the line concept. He thought he had a special "in" with Santa so he wouldn't have to wait in line. Bobbie "helped" Logan write his note telling Santa what he wants for Christmas.

When he finally got to Santa he showed him his list. Logan asked for a Buzz Lightyear and some cars. The cars request is no surprise because he goes nuts for anything with wheels.

Logan really liked Santa. After talking to him Logan thought Santa would come to breakfast with us. He was bummed that Santa had to stay in his chair and talk to all the other kids.

After the breakfast we went shopping at the FAO Schwartz at Macy's. Logan had a great time playing with all the stuff there.

One of the most unique things about FAO Schwartz is the solider who stands out front.

When we were done shopping we went outside to see the windows. Emily hung onto Logan and he enjoyed seeing everything. The Salvation Army bell ringer let Logan ring a bell when he put some money in the pot.

The windows were unique this year. Yes, unique is definitely the word to describe them. Over all we had a great time and a great weekend.

The Christmas Fun Has Begun

Yes, I know it has been a really long time since I updated, but I am going to try to catch up. This is what we did this past weekend.

We have a very busy Christmas season so this past weekend we celebrated with just our family.

We sat in the family room, ate pizza, and watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (again).

Afterward we opened our gifts to each other. Logan is really getting into the Christmas spirit. He really likes opening presents.

Logan opened up his favorite present -- police cars. He was so excited about his big boy cars.

Logan was soooooo excited about his cars. He had a hard time getting the concept of holding up his present but we still have a few weeks to work on that.

I opened Wicked tickets! I am so excited. Jason and I are going the day after New Year's. I have never heard a bad review so I am pretty excited.

We hope you have a very Merry Christmas!