My family had their Christmas party at Claudine's home in Murietta last Saturday ... we got there early and celebrated ALL day!!!! It was our first time seeing Celene's baby Maxwell ... he is absolutely adorable! He looks so much like Taylor did as a baby ... so cute!! Claudine, of course, spoiled everyone in her beautiful home and made the best meals. There was some SERIOUS basketball games in their backyard with the boys (I think my dad has been looking forward to that part for weeks!!!), some chatting with the sisters inside, and of course the cute little cousins playing together. We exchanged gifts ... I'm so happy with the way my family does it now... we sisters pick one family to give a $20 gift to ... so, this year we had Channy's family. And then we each give to our parents ... how easy!!!!! :) I was so excited to give my parents the ABC book I made through Heritage Makers ... I think they liked it! My parents suprised us and gave us two heritage makers books as well ... Channy helped make one that included every year's christmas card picture from since my parents were married ... it's a cute way of documenting our family throughout the years. Also, the previous two Christmas' I made a scrapbook of my dad's family and one of my mom's family. So Channy scanned the actual scrapbook pages I made of my mom's family, and some additional pages that my mom made ... and made them into another book! It's really neat ... it's so special to have a record and pictures of my ancestors like that. . . anyways, they were really neat gifts!! All in all it was a really special day to be all together with my family. .. Talon was a good boy and loved playing with everyone!Talon and his cute cousin Jessica ... they became fast friends in their bumbos!
Dylan LOVED to play with Talon ... he could always get him to smile!
Channy blowing out the candles ... we celebrated her 23rd bday. I think Graham thought we were all singing to him though!