A Christmas To Remember!

Christmas 2008 will definitely go down in the books as one to remember! It was Mr. Maxwell's first Christmas and we were excited to celebrate it with family in Brianhead, UT. Christmas Day was wonderful with opening gifts, eating the traditional Christmas morning breakfast, playing with new toys/gadgets and shoveling snow.

"What do you want to do first? Open presents? Have breakfast? Or do chores?"


Christmas Nativity with Eric and Carolyn's kids. Katie made a wondeful star and halo out of some gold foil she found on the potatoes...clever girl.

Max of course was thrilled to be a part of the Nativity and loved to wear Katie's props.

A young Jedi with his new light saber. "May the force be with you."

Katie enjoying Christmas morning.

Vanessa with her new Razor scooter.

This was Max's very first Christmas and he may not have cared or understood but it was fun to see him play with his new cars, blankets, trains and books.

Grandma Snow made Max his very own church book. Thank Phyllis we love it and will put it to good use! Anything to keep this guy quite and maybe sitting still for a few seconds!

If you wanted to know where Clu was during the Christmas weekend...all bets were on I-15 Hwy either heading North or South...He kept the roads warm!

The rest of the weekend happened to be not so much fun! Clu was a sport with work, driving back and forth and trying spending time with us. "A lot of windshield time" as Steven would say. He drove back to Salt Lake Christmas night barely missing the biggest storm we have had this year. Went to work the day after and then drove all the way back to St George (pit stop in Brianhead to pick up the car) from Provo.

The next morning he woke up early to help his family get out of all the snow in Brianhead. They had helped "dig" out Steven's car so that he coulld drive us down to St. George the day before (more on this a little later). When he got there he towed out vehicles from the snow, stayed a bit to eat breakfast and then again back on the road to St George. Finally on Sunday he packed up his things and left Max and I with Steven and Phyllis and drove back to Salt Lake.

We all had a wonderful time with family on Christmas but sad that we didn't get to spend much time with them. Max was very sick Christmas night and early the next morning Steven drove us all the way to St George. Max was admitted into the hospital with a lung infection and pneumonia.

This was a crazy Christmas, but we are so BLESSED to have family and friends that were there to help in our time of need! We are happy to say that Max is on the mend and almost back to his old self (BUSY)! I'm glad we had Dr. Howard around to come and take care of him in the hospital.