Happy New Year's Eve!!

We celebrated New Year's Eve with our cousins enjoying yummy Fondue, our Countdown Bags that contained fun activities like 2010 reflections and Bubble Wrap Pop, ate grapes every hour for luck, and Just Dance on Wii!! 

Every hour, I would have them open a bag... in the bag there were different goodies such as; sunglasses, noise makers, silly string, party hats, etc.  We also filled in little flip books writing/drawing pictures our favorite things from the past year.

Happy Birthday, Fumble!

We celebrated Fumble's 2nd Birthday today!  Although, it seems like we have had him a lot longer than that!  Hayden definitely seems to have formed a stronger bond with Fumble as he his getting older.  He will often run over to where Fumble is napping... hug him and say, "I Love You, Fumble!"  :) 
Fumble has been EXTREMELY patient with Hayden and has never (knock on wood) been aggressive.  At times, he will meow at Hayden as he is being smooshed ;), but that is the extent!  My favorite is when Hayden is trying to find him (he is usually sleeping under his train table), and he will walk around saying, "Come here, Pal!"

To help celebrate, Hayden and I went shopping for some new cat goodies... a few days after the holidays is a great time to buy clearanced cat toys! :)  We also made him some birthday cards, and sang Happy Birthday, while Hayden blew out the candle!

 Happy Birthday, Fumble!

Lazy Days and Christmas Toys!

Unfortunately, aside from all the neat presents we received on Christmas, we also got the flu! :(  So, we have spent the last few days in our pj's playing with some of our new toys while coughing and blowing our noses!

Christmas 2010

What a wonderful Christmas we had this year!!  We started the morning off around 7:30... I was shocked that Hayden slept that late.  He woke up talking to his stuffed animals in bed, asking them if they thought Santa brought presents last night. :)  Then he slowly made his way out to peek over the banister!

After checking to see if Santa ate his cookies/milk, and a quick look at his stockings, we dove into unwrapping all of the presents.  Ironically, the first thing Hayden said when he saw his WRAPPED box was, "I knew Santa would bring me my construction train!"  Really?  I knew I should have put it in a different box! LOL!

 After opening all of our gifts and playing in the wrapping paper ;), we had our traditional Breakfast Pizza, and then Hayden couldn't wait to get a start on his Trains!

After playing with some of our toys, we all took a nap before heading to Randy's for Xmas dinner!  Although, I am so mad at myself for not taking more pictures while I was there! :( 

Merry Christmas Eve

Today, we had such a nice family day!!  We started the morning watching a Santa Tracker to see where Santa was located while enjoying a Santa Breakfast!

Then we decided to take advantage of the snow, so we took Hayden sledding!  Aside from sledding, we also enjoyed having a snowball fight!! :)

We ended the night opening our family gift... mini-air hockey table.  Hayden is a natural at it!

After playing Air Hockey, we ordered some Chinese Food and watched Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer before getting ready for Santa's visit!

Last day of Advent Calendar...

Rudolph Movie

Laying out Cookies/Milk for Santa

 Earning his last "nice boy" sticker for his chart, before putting it in his stocking for Santa!

Hayden and Daddy spreading the Magic Reindeer food on the front lawn!

Saying Good Night & Good Bye to Charlie~the Elf, since Santa is taking him back to the North Pole until next year!!

Chicago Christmas Festivities

Jake took a few days off of work to celebrate Christmas, so we decided to head to Chicago for some Christmas Festivities.  We went to the Museum of Science and Industry, to see their Christmas Tree Display. 

Although, I liked looking at the trees, especially the Lithuanian tree, Hayden was done the minute he saw the train display! :)

                                     

Thankfully, we were able to pull him away from the trains long enough to see a few other exhibits! :)