Fun Christmas Day!

Today was such a great day spent with Olga (GramO) and Jordan (Uncle J)! Elli & Uncle J

We met up at The Cheesecake Factory for lunch. Elli was a little cranky the whole time so it made for a difficult lunch. On the way to the mall I told Ray that I had to try really really hard to keep my patience since I knew the mall would be crazy. Well that didn't even make it through lunch...Ray got his fish & chips well before anyone else. Well then about 10 mins after Ray had gotten his lunch and 5 mins after O & J got their food I finally got my burger and fries. I ate about 5 french fries after having to ask a 2nd time for my honey mustard...since he didn't write down our order when he took it...and 2 bites from my burger when I saw a hair on my plate wrapped through my fries. So I totally lost my appetite for the rest of my lunch and when they offered a new one I didn't want anything else from the kitchen. They then offered a piece of cheesecake so I did take that and chose the new Red Velvet cheesecake. We asked the waiter for some warm water for Elli's bottle and while waiting Elli knocked over Ray's soda. It went all over Ray's legs and all over the seat! The floor was covered as well and started getting dirty from our shoes and the sticky soda! Poor Ray was all sticky the rest of the day! Well after waiting for the warm water I asked for I finally got up to go to the bathroom for water for her bottle. While in the bathroom I really lost my patience...I got back to the table chanting patience. :)

After lunch we headed over to see Santa!! The line looked super long but I think we only waited about 30 minutes. Elli slept for most of the wait but woke up happy so that was nice. We tried SOOOO hard to get her to smile. Even Buddy the Elf :) tried to help but she just stared. 'I get to see who?'

She also got to take a photo with Uncle J! She did a great job for her age I think! Elli & GramO

At least no screaming! :) We also stopped to take a few photos in front of the big tree in the middle of the mall.

Then Elli's Christmas present from GramO was to go to Build-A-Bear! She picked out Holly the Moose over Mischevious Monkey. It was such a fun experience even if she didn't understand everything. We got the lullaby sound. They have you warm up the heart, pat it, touch it to your head to be smart, to the ears to hear all Elli's secrets, to the eyes to see, to the nose to smell good, kisses, touched to the heart and make a wish and then we each put our heart in before it is sewn up. :) We chose skinny jeans, a pink top with hearts and some adorable pink glasses. :) Holly the Moose

Now we just need to think of a name! :)

So even though lunch didn't go too well the rest of the day made up for it! What a wonderful day spent with some of my favorite people!