'Tis the Season

So far our weather this year has been unseasonably warm.  One day last week after getting home from early morning basketball Adam picked up the leaves one last time with the lawn mower.  AJ, still in his pajamas, wasn't about to miss out on the fun.

Like father, like son.

Like any 2 year old AJ doesn't like to hear the word, "No".  When I wouldn't let him go with Dad to work one morning he went and got a sleeve of crackers from the pantry and broke them up into tiny little pieces just to show me that he was NOT happy about it. I get it, AJ, but you still can't go to work with Dad. Just sayin'.

Christmas decorations are up!

AJ likes him some hot chocolate.  Finding him in the cupboard making a huge mess from trying to eat hot chocolate mix straight from the container is, unfortunately, not a rare occurrence.

He is always so proud of himself when he does something naughty. 

A sister in our ward, Shari Wilkinson, passed away this week and the funeral was yesterday.  This was Adam's 5th funeral as Bishop and he always does a nice job speaking and taking care of things,  Shari was hospitalized on Monday and on Tuesday Adam felt that he needed to go see her even though it was the middle of the day. He did so and she passed away 2 hours later. Had he waited until after work to go it would have been too late.

Last night we went to the LDS Genesis Group's Christmas party.  Santa made a visit to the party and had gifts for all of the boys and girls.

AJ's fist visit with Santa Claus. 

Jameson in line to visit Santa.

Santa spent quite a bit of time talking to each child.  I overheard him telling Jameson, among other things, to work hard in school and get an education. Clearly he is a very wise Santa Claus. And he didn't give them a bunch of candy either, he gave them toothbrushes and coloring books. Yup, pretty much my favorite Santa ever.

AJ had no fear of the big guy, but then again, there isn't much that AJ is afraid of. He walked around last night like he owned the place.