Max Talkin' on the Patio

This was taken the morning of Jared's birthday. Right before we left for Disneyland, hence the mouse ears.

....a dope beat to step to. Step to, step to, step to. Step to. Step to.

Disneyland Fun!!!

So I guess no one knew the lyrics. It was an Aaliyah song featuring Timbaland. Anyhoo, here is how Max steps to dope beats.

SO...last Thursday was Jared's birthday. Luckily, he was able to get the day off and we all went to Disneyland. It was Jared's first time going with Max. We had so much fun! Jared got in free, Max always gets in free and I have an annual pass. So besides the cost of food it was free. When we first go there we headed over to Fantasyland and hit up the little kid rides. Max loves the carousel. It amazes me how dark and spooky most of the kid rides there are. Max did fine, no crying. If he got scared he would simply turn his head into Jared's chest; an out of sight out of mind thing I guess. After Fantasyland we went to Max's favorite area of the park...Toon Town. Max absolutely loves running around this area, sitting in the car and "driving" them. He played at Goofy's house for a good half an hour.

Brett, Mimi and Shane met us at this point and we headed over to Autopia. Max is over 32 inches so he was able to ride with Jared on Autopia. We also went on Astroblasters; Max rode with Uncle Brett and out scored him. (Brett was preoccupied with making sure Max didn't fall; Max enjoyed the joystick and making the car spin.) We were able to go on some big rides, while Mimi watched Max. Unfortunately we didn't get to go on the Haunted Mansion as it was closed for redecorating. We ended up leaving at 7:30 pm after a fabulous day with family. We even get to go to California Adventure with Jared within the next month because of the Two-fer. Hopefully it won't be raining when we go because Max loves the water features in the Bug's Life area.

All of us just outside of Pooh's ride. This would be a good pic to brighten up via photoshop, if you can do that. Maybe someday.

We (Max and I) love Jared so much and are so grateful to have him as the head of our household. Max even picked out a card for Jared all by himself. It is a Cars one that plays music when you open it.

It's been a long time, I shouldn't have left you without...

Max in his Christmas outfit from Grandpa and G.G. (He's a deer.)

Max is the king of the world


Grandpa, Max and Shane keeping it real in a cave at the zoo.

Mommy, Max and Grandpa

Max still stalks cats. Luckily neither G.G. or Tucker mind.

(Can anyone fill in the rest of these song lyrics? They popped into my head when I was thinking how long it's been since I blogged last.) So obviously a lot has happened over the past month. In brief our main events were: Max and I went to Az to visit grandpa and G.G., we moved to a new apartment, and went to Disneyland for Jared's birthday. I'll start with Az.

Jared had to work but Max and I drove out to Arizona to spend time with Grandpa and G.G., as a nice added bonus Shane and Gina's mother, Jill, were both there as well. The drive out was fabulous. I left around 9:30 am Max slept until right before Blythe, we stopped, ate at McDonald's played for a bit, loaded back up and Max napped until we arrived. It was nice. We had a lot of fun while we were there. We went with Shane and Grandpa to the zoo; Max loved running around in the bird aviary and getting rides on Uncle Shane's shoulders. We had some good eats. G.G. and Jill even watched Max so my dad and I could go see a hockey game. (The Coyotes rocked it in sudden death shoot-out) We even got to stay at the Woods' home for a few nights. Max loved Emily and cried when it was time for her to go to bed or school. She was very sweet to him; it was quite endearing. We had a lovely time.

When we got back it was time to start packing. Luckily, Mimi came to Riverside a few times to help get it all done. Moving sucked (doesn't it always?). But it went pretty well. We like our new place minus a few quirks...like the fact that there is absolutely no uncovered parking after 6 pm. I still haven't unpacked yet.