Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Downs Christmas Party

It has become a Downs family tradition, that every Christmas we'll go out for a nice dinner and do some sort of activity as a family. Last year we went Ice skating, and this year we went to the Phoenix Zoo lights. For dinner we went to a Brazilian Steak House, and it was so good! If you've never been, you must try it at least once in your life. It's a little pricey but so worth it! And to our surprise Jacob was really good at dinner and got very excited every time they brought the grilled pineapple by, it was pretty funny.

After dinner we headed over to the Zoo lights, and again to our surprise Jacob was so good! It was almost like he knew Santa had left some presents for him at grandma and grandpas....

We had to get a picture of the monkeys, Jacob loves monkeys...

We knew what grandma and grandpa were getting him this year, but we had no idea how much he would love it!

A bike! He hoped right on, like he'd been doing it for years!

His favorite part, definitely the two bells on the handle bars.





And we couldn't get him off to open the rest of his presents, so he sat on his bike and opened them. He got walkie-talkies from Jeff and Rachael. And has been talking into them, he just hasn't figured out that he needs to push the button and talk...he'll get there.

We are heading out to San Diego on Saturday to spend Christmas with my family and can't wait. Matt's really looking forward to it, he hasn't been out there since May...

I must mention Matt and I are equally excited about the present we received, but I won't go on bragging about them... :)

A big THANK YOU to Matt's parents!!!

2 comments:

Bud & Kim said...

Gosh Jacob is getting SO big! We're heading out to SD this year too. Actually Bud is already out there installing the new cabinets in his parent's house and I'm driving out to join him on Saturday. Merry Christmas!

Rachael and Jeff Downs said...

We had so much fun! Thanks so much for our Mad Gab game...Jeff and I played it last night and had so much fun--I think it was the alone time together :)We loved it