The Railroad Park in Scottsdale

 Walker on the train with my parents

 Can anyone spot Jake?

 Standing where several former Presidents stood.

 My dad insisted on taking a picture with this creepy mannequin conductor.

The first order of business once my parents arrived in Arizona was to go to the Train Park.  My dad has always been into trains, and Jake and Walker love them, too, so I knew it would be a big hit.  There was much more to do than I expected; we rode a little train, rode a carousel, went to a museum, and saw some model train exhibits.  That was such a fun day!  

Fiesta Bowl: Part 1

 Jake loved wearing the hotel's robes even though they were 20 sizes too big.

 Coach Zo's kids (Sofia and Rocco) with Walker and Jake

 Our hotel had this cute little Western area.

 The hotel also had this little putting green.  We visited it several times a day.

 That's Jake's head coming off the slide to the left.

 Walker wasn't into the slide as much.

 In front of the cactus garden where Jake got "stung" by a cactus.

 My boys. Love.

 

 Off to one of our events.  :)

 

We just got back from the Fiesta Bowl where UCF won 52-42 against #6 Baylor.  I'll have more on the game later, but I just wanted to start getting up some pictures. 

 

We left for Scottsdale the day after Christmas and stayed at The Fairmont (click here), which was absolutely amazing.  We had the. time. of. our. lives.  More on our trip later...I'm off to watch a replay of the game. ;)  Sorry for the tease.

"Hi, My Name is Joe..."

Walker came home from school singing this song a few weeks ago, and Tyson made me promise to record it for him.  Get ready for cuteness overload. :)

Christmas Day!

 Patiently waiting to check out their loot.

 Bahaha!  I caught Tyson eating Santa's cookies!

 Opening their Wii...Santa wrapped this one.

 To Jake when you're an adult: I did not force you to wear these PJs.  You insisted on me getting these and you thought you looked good. ;)

 What was Santa thinking?

 Anderson's first Christmas!!

 Because we celebrated Christmas a day early, it was also my birthday!

Merry Christmas from the Summers!!  We had a great Christmas!  We stayed in our PJs the whole day and just enjoyed being a family of 5.  Tyson had off the 23rd (but went into the office for a few hours with the big boys), so the 24th was our first full day of being a family of 5 since Anderson was born and our first full day together since the end of July.  It was awesome!

The boys really racked up from Santa.  They got an air hockey table, a Wii, Wii games, a SpongeBob playset, an Octonauts playset, Beyblades, Tenkai Knights mini figures, Switch n Go Dinos, and a few other things I can't even remember. It was funny when they opened the Wii...Tyson had no clue they were getting one and wasn't very excited about it (he's anti-video games for kids), however, after playing it a few times, I think Tyson is more pumped about it than the boys. :)  Ha!

We sure missed being with our families this year, but we are going to see everyone after our bowl game.  Merry Christmas!!

Twas the Night Before Christmas...

 About to head to bed!

 Santa came!  And he hid the Wii back behind Anderson's stuff. :)

Since Tyson has to work on Christmas day, Jake asked our elf if Santa could come on Christmas Eve.  The elf wrote a note this week that Santa would be coming then...so exciting, yet so confusing when Jake told his friends Santa was coming on Christmas Eve.  Ha!  Oh well, welcome to the crazy world we live in!  Stay tuned for pictures from "Christmas Day."