Christmas in PHX

We came, we went, we saw, beautiful PHX for Christmas. We had tons of fun visiting everyone. Saw a wedding, had tamales, and got a puppy. Actually my parents got a puppy but we were there when they brought him home and Mace was in doggie heaven! Really had a great time visiting family and seeing everyone. We know that it will be a long while before we return as hopefully we will add another little one to our family and it will just be too expensive to fly cross country anymore. Someone needs to invent teleportation, cost effective teleportation!


Mace got to meet his new cousins, Mark and Aliza for the first time, even though Aliza was only a few days old at the time. He got to spend some very fun quality time with his 5 cousins for one night, tuckered him out completely, and the other kids that when we, Matt and I and Matt's sis, Marie and hubby Cliff, returned home from our double date that all 6 kids were passed out asleep in the front room. Oh, and Mace cleaned out their fridge as he has quite the appetite. He ate like 4 string cheese sticks and a ton of strawberries while he was there. What can I say he is a fruity, he loves fruit and loves to eat. Matt got to catch up with his Aunts and Uncles that he hadn't seen in a few years since he has been gone on deployment for a few years in a a row.

It was just a great trip all around for all of us. Despite the flights. I won't get into that but the flights were not the most fun thing I have ever done. Not doing another flight with him for a very, very, very long time.

~Aunt Kathrine and Tom got this lovely chair for Mason. Seriously the best thing ever. Fits him perfectly!~

 ~4 Generations of Allen men~

 ~Mason and Great Grandma Allen~

 ~A little blurry but seriously THE best pix of Great Grandma and Grandpa Allen. Everyone is just so... happy~

 ~The Allen generation~

 ~Like father like son~

 ~Mason getting to walk around the Mesa, AZ temple~

 ~Marie, Cliff, Matt and I went on a double date and came home to this. All 5 Maynard and 1 Allen baby passed out cold! Oh what a beautiful sight!~

 ~Mason chopping on a lemon at Tia Rosas. He loved the mexican food too!~

 ~Mace with Nana and Papa Branum~

 ~Meeting Bandit~

 ~Gpa fell and broke his wrist while we were in town. So he is one handed for awhile but still able to be a puppy wrangler!~

 ~We got to play with some of the other spoken for puppies at the breeder's house, which was exactly like my piano teachers home and just a block away!~

 ~And they call it, puppy love! Seriously how cute!~

 ~When we arrived back in VA from PHX, I forgot to pack warmer clothing. So we were a little cold to say the least and I bundled up Mace as well as I could. He was a trooper though! (ASU footie pj's, rugby stripe hooded jacket, and his winter blanket topped off with his paci!~

Christmas in VA

We are going to PHX for Christmas this year so we had our family Christmas a little early. We didn't want to have to make Santa haul all of Mason's gifts all the way to PHX either!

Random Pix

I had some cute pix just sitting on my iPhoto and wanted to share a couple with you! Enjoy

~Mason fell asleep while in time out. He just leaned forward and rested his face on the wall and fell asleep.~

 ~Mason found a new toy~

 ~Alligator wrestler~

 ~Somebody got tired~

 ~Playing dress up! I want to be like dad~

 ~I love watching him sleep~