Merry Christmas!

What a fun whirlwind the past three weeks have been! (ok, more like the past month and a half...but we're just going to talk about vacation here.) We started off going to San Diego on the 13th until the 27th to party with Rudy's parents and had lots of fun doing a lot of stuff! We had a wonderful, beautiful Christmas with Oma and Opa spoiling and giving us way more than our luggage could hold! (Thanks guys! ;) We ate wonderful food (which we're now trying to work off, went to the Children's Museum), the Wild Animal Park (thanks to Rudy's brother Adam), had fun at the traditional 'Bunko Party', played way too much 'Rockband' :) (or according to Rudy, not enough!) So much fun!

We were able to go to the San Diego Children's Museum with Oma and Opa. Tucker wasn't the only one who had a great time!









Christmas Eve, Rudy and I took Tucker (Oma and Opa watched Cooper...thanks!) and we went to the Wild Animal Park thanks to Tickets that Rudy's brother gave us. It was so much fun, there were beautiful animals and NO ONE was there! It was like we had the park all to ourselves!
We went to the bird show at the park. At the beginning of the show, the woman in charge said, "if you feel like you need to duck...just DUCK!" Well, in case you were wondering, when looking through a viewfinder of a camera 'items in view are LARGER and CLOSER than they appear.' This gargantuan crane was swooping from one side of the arena to the next, getting ever so close. I thought, 'wow, what a great photo this would make!' I pulled out my trusty camera and waited for the large bird to fly once again in my direction.
Exhibit A (above photo) "Wow that crane seems awfully close to the camera!" I think to myself, .02 seconds before...WHACK!! "I think I just got whacked by a very large bird!" I pull the camera away to find feather remnants stuck in the lens... I, indeed, got struck by a crane (and still have the remnants to prove it!)
Tucker had a blast at the petting corral.
Hello? Deery? Why aren't you playing?? (can anyone hear Darla's voice from finding Nemo right now?) Poor Deer!
Normal day hangin' out with the gorillas!
Ahh...the wonderment in a child's face...few things so sweet!




Christmas Day was wonderful! We had so much fun eating and playing and being together.


Fun surprises

Baby's 1st Christmas
Opa and Oma think they're funny and got a really fun LOUD NOISE-MAKER TOY....thanks guys! ;)
CARS!!Boys never grow up! ;)Rudy and Adam commandeering Tuckers race track for some good old fashioned brother duels

Some of the YUMMY food!



It was so fun to see Tucker really get into Christmas this year...amazing how kids bring such a pure joy into Christmas!

Thanks Opa!



More pics to come on this post....as soon as our computer decides it wants to let us open up our flash drives on it. oye.