Christmas

Christmas Eve started out with Mason opening his new pajamas. After that, we went over to the Fabbi's for our traditional Christmas Eve dinner. Mason loves going to Papa's and he was thrilled to see some older cousins there to play with. We sang some Christmas songs and read the Christmas story. Then we let the kids open their presents.

Christmas morning was a lot of fun. Mason was excited to come downstairs and see his stocking. He was so excited for this blue motorcycle...I'm not sure if he remembers finding it in my closet a couple months ago :)

He also got a beloved Mater car. Look at that face of pure excitement in his eyes!

A potato head from Toy Story

Santa brought Mason a Mack truck, a Chick-Hicks truck, the King truck, and a Leak Less truck. All of Mason's favorites.

After we finished opening presents at our house, we went over to the Lyman's. Santa brought Grandma Lyman an air hockey table this year. So much fun for those little boys, and the big boys too!

Then Mason had a couple of presents from Grandma and Grandpa Lyman to open. Grandma Lyman got all of the kids matching Toy Story shirts and a ticket to see Disney on Ice!

After the Lyman's, we went over to the Kennedy's for yummy Christmas dinner. It's not Christmas without Grandma's ham and potatoes. Mason had fun with some more cousins over there. He is getting a little friendlier and will actually give hugs and kisses to the grandparents now. That's a big improvement for Mason, haha.

We had such a fun Christmas. It was so fun to see Mason get so excited and have so much fun with his new toys!

Grandma-Great's Christmas Party

Every year, Grandma-great has a Christmas party for the whole family. It is fun to get together with all of the cousins and watch the great-grandkids play together. Grandma always has a special visitor that brings a little surprise for the kids.

Mason stood back and watched Santa for a while

It took a little help from Daddy to get Mason close to Santa

But once Mason saw that Santa had a present for him, he got a little more friendly.

Santa knew Mason would love some cars!

All Aboard the Santa Train

Grandma and Grandpa Lyman treated us all to a ride on the Santa Train this year. There are so many little boys in the family and they were in heaven. The whole drive out to Boulder City, Mason kept saying "All aboard the Santa train!"

There were trains on display and Mason was captivated.

Here are some of the little boys waiting so patiently in line to board the train.

They had to inspect the tracks, of course

Mason holding on to his ticket

Sitting on the window on the train

Cute little boys!

I didn't get any pictures of him, but Santa walks through the train, car by car, and visits each bench and talks to the kids. Mason wasn't too excited by Santa, but he liked Mrs. Claus a little better. We had a lot of fun and will definitely be going back next year!

DISNEYLAND

This year we decided to skip Thanksgiving and go to Disneyland instead! We did the Disney "Give-a-day, Get-a-day" program so we had free tickets into Disneyland. We drove to Anaheim Wednesday night and got ready to take on Disneyland on Thursday. We had so much fun! We kept telling Mason that we were going to visit Mickey Mouse but I don't think he got it until we actually got there. Our hotel had a shuttle to Disneyland so Mason was super excited that we got to ride a "bus" there. First thing we saw when we got inside was Minnie Mouse!

Mason wouldn't stop staring at her to take a picture

Then we saw Pluto! mason kept saying its a "big Pluto"

Then we headed off to do some rides. We weren't sure how Mason would do on the rides but he didn't cry on anything!

Mason rode Dumbo with Daddy...

And the teacups with Mom and Kristin...

He even talked someone into giving him their soda...

Despite his little tantrum in this picture, Mason loved the car ride...

Of course we had to go visit Mickey Mouse, Mason thought his house was pretty cool...

Driving Mickey's car...

We had to ride the circus train...we sat in the monkey cage! We also rode the monorail 4 times because Mason thought that it was super cool...

I think everyone's favorite ride was the Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters...Brad liked to shoot the blasters and Mason liked to watch him...i think we rode it 5 times :)

Everytime we walked by the big Buzz in line, Mason would wave and say "Hi Buzz, Bye Buzz" Too cute!

Mason thought the castle was pretty cool...he think it is Mickey's castle...

By the end of the night, Mason was exhausted!

We had so much fun taking Mason to Disneyland. It was so cute to watch him get excited about seeing all the characters and going on the rides. He really enjoyed "It's a small world" Another favorite was Pirates of the Caribbean. Mason started singing along to "yo ho yo ho" while we were riding Pirates.

We decided to let Mason pick out his souvenir...of course, he went straight to the Cars section and picked out a giant Mack truck. It is a carrying case that came with a bunch of little cars inside. He absolutely loves it. He hasn't let go of it for the 2 days since we have been home :)

He rode the whole car ride home with it on his lap

Today we were driving in the car and Mason randomly said "Thank you Mama and Dada for Mickey Mouse's castle" It was too sweet. (He calls Disneyland Mickey Mouse's castle) He is already asking to go back!

Little Chef

Mason loves to "help" cook. He always sits on the counter with his own spoon and he will help stir everything. The other day, I used some spices so Mason decided that he needed to mix his own spices. So I gave him all the spices off our spice rack that we never use and he mixed up his own special spice mix...It kept him entertained forever! The only problem was that he insisted on putting it on our food :) so I "helped" him and made sure his concoction did not get into the spaghetti.

He was SO proud of himself

Thank you for being such a good helper, MayMay!

Halloween

Our Halloween celebrations extended all week long! It was a long week and maybe a little too much Halloween. Mason was a Doctor this year. He had little scrubs and his very own stethoscope. He even knows how to use it :). On Wednesday I took Mason to Brad's work in his costume. Mason thought it was really cool to sit at Dad's bench and look at the teeth.

On Thursday we went to a Halloween part with all of our play group friends. Mason thought it was fun to see all the different costumes and eat lots of candy. On Friday we had our ward Trunk-or-Treat. It didn't take Mason very long to figure out that when he said "Trick or treat" then he got some candy. He was so excited to go to every car and he said thank you to everyone. Too sweet! Then on Saturday we started out at the Lyman's house. Then we tagged along to their ward Trunk-or-treat. Mason had the hang of it this time and was not shy at all about going up and saying "trick-or-treat"

These pictures are the best I got. Mason does not make it easy to take pictures anymore!

Halloween at the Lyman"s

Saturday morning we all headed over to the Lyman's for some Halloween fun. Grandma treated us all to Krispy Kreme Halloween donuts. So good. Then we did a little pumpkin carving... Mason was interested for about 2 minutes before he decided that he would rather go play with the train set...Brad did a good job of carving the pumpkins :)

The we made some oreo spider cookies...

Mason was a lot more interested in the final pumpkins...

Then Grandma had sugar cookies for the kids to decorate. Mason really enjoyed this part.

He did a lot of eating the frosting instead of putting it on his cookie...but he was really into putting sprinkles on his cookies...

Mason's final product! Don't those cookies look delicious?! :)

Pumpkin Patch

I took Mason to a pumpkin patch with a play group. This patch had everything- a petting zoo, rides, a bounce house, a big slide, and games.

Mason really loved the petting zoo area. He kept chasing the goats and petting them. He clucked at the chickens and petted the rabbits. He even found 2 eggs that the chickens had laid!

Mason loved looking at all the pumpkins. He really liked the little pumpkins. He kept calling them "baby pumpkins"

So cute!

The patch had little pumpkins and dried corn on the cob all over the hay bales for decoration. Mason thought that they needed to be in piles like all the other pumpkins, so he took the liberty of collecting all the corn and little pumpkins and creating his own piles...

Mason will not look at the camera anymore! This is as good as it gets...he still looks cute!

Mason definitely had a blast! He was even more excited when he got his very own baby pumpkin to take home! He pulled the baby pumpkin around in his little wagon all day!