Max meets his Aunt Aja

Aja came to town on March 10th.  We had a fantastic time with her and her boyfriend Ken and have lots of pictures.  So many, that I'm going to have to spread them out over a few posts.  :)  There are so many pictures that I love and her camera is clearly superior to mine.  It may seem like a ton of pic but I promise, I DID weed some of them out.  :)  Thanks Aja for taking such awesome pictures that really captured Max!

I think she's awesome for making that long drive from Utah to Texas two times now!  You can click here to read about her visit last year. 

Max didn't take too long to warm up to Aja and she, of course, loved him to pieces.  She had done a lot of fun activities the last time she came and this time she said she just wanted to make sure she got lots of time with Max.  That warmed my heart and made me happy.  Max sure is blessed with some great Aunts and Uncles!

Uh oh, he's getting upset.

 Now he's really upset.  (He still rocks that pouty lip!)

No more crying, I'm with dad now.

He wasn't very happy this morning, but isn't this vest ridiculously cute?!?!  Thanks Tida and Jason!!!!!

Playing with Aunt Aja

Max LOVES his Giraffe.  It's his favorite toy.  Max loves that he sings the ABCs.  I look forward to when Max can squeeze his belly himself in order to make the giraffe sing but until then, Peter and I are very experienced at squeezing the giraffe to get the song to start.

Some of the fun things we did while Aja was here:

• Went to a real Texas steakhouse - Salt Grass to celebrate Aja's birthday
• Hung out and enjoyed being around each other
• Peter and Aja spent HOURS playing some old school Nintendo game they played together as kids
• Played the card game "Golf"
• On Sunday Aja, Ken, and Peter got up early and went to breakfast.   I refused to get up early plus deal with all that meant for Max on one of my weekend days so they went without me.  I wasn't willing to sacrifice sleep for food.
• Left Max with Brittany and went to enjoy lunch and a movie at Studio Movie Grill
• Visited the Dallas Heritage Village (more pictures of that to come)

It was a fantastic visit.  I am grateful to Aja for taking the time and making the effort to come out and see us, it really means a lot.  It was hard to see her leave.  I wish we could talk all of our family into moving here!