The Best Christmas

I am convinced there is nothing as magical as Christmas with a toddler. This christmas was so amazing I loved ever minute with this little boy. It was pretty busy getting ready for christmas a baby and having Marshall be gone a lot for work. He was gone the whole month of November in Texas- but that is a whole other story. Max thought every part of christmas was amazing. He was really in love with all things birthday and babies this year so the concept of Christmas being Jesus's birthday was very exciting! He especially liked that He got presents for Jesus's birthday! but I think we might have ruined him into thinking that he will get presents on every other persons birthday now. 

Marshall was rotating with my OB the month before christmas so He got to come to my weekly pregnancy appointments and he was close to home and had fridays off for us to enjoy some extra fun christmas adventures. It was also fun to be around so much family the whole month to enjoy christmas with both of our families. 

 We got to take a little date in Salt Lake for our friend Chelseys birthday before life got so so crazy. We went on the ABC scavenger hunt around the Grand America Hotel and found the giant real gingerbread house!

 We love all things gingerbread :) and went to the festival of trees- which was incredible by the way, and so so touching. Max found all of the BYU trees and he loved seeing the gingerbread Temple and Frozen castle.

 This little boy was so perfect on christmas morning. He got WAY too many presents. It was all my fault i will admit. He was just so excited about so many things that i wanted to buy them all! little did i know that 2 year olds really and truly don't need more than 2 presents :) All max asked for when he talked to Santa was a Dump Truck and a Trampoline. but of course we couldn't stop there. The boy is obsessed with golf so we regifted his golf clubs and practice balls and we got him a little rubber tee that he could us inside- it was an exciting morning of flying golf balls! The other thing we surprised him with was a Trumpet.. and it might have been the best thing I have haver purchased. before christmas he would walk around with any stick and pretend to play the trumpet and be in a marching band. It was truly magical watching him run around all excitedly playing his trumpet. - Thanks Christmas You were good to us this year.

 To find his trampoline he followed the candy canes that santa left him down the stairs. Also a great investment that thing :) It gets all the wiggles out.

 There are not words for how much I adore this little boy. Christmas is the greatest time of year and christmas morning was perfect. but even more- the things that you can capture in a photograph was listening to max tell the story of Jesus's birth over and over and spending a whole month devoted to our saviors birth and life. Being so so pregnant this Christmas has made me feel an extra amount of love for  Mary the  mother of Jesus and the beautiful opportunity and privilege it is to raise children and be a mother. I am so grateful this Christmas to our Heavenly Father for the matchless gift of his divine son.