Madd Max Has A Fancy Christmas Eve

Manifesting Great Grandma vibes.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth was baking these.

And Steve was cooking this - a little filet and mushrooms, anyone?

Marissa was recovering from this.

Mom and Son.

 

Moms of all people.

Jess and Alex.

Sam, Steve and Elizabeth.

 

Lilly and a big bottle of wine.

Jess, Drew and Steve.

Aarin and Alex.

PDA.

 

Cheers!

Madd Max Celebrates 49

 

Eggs benny.

 

Thai lunch.

With Taisie and presents.

Sugarfish for dinner.

And Page birthday cake to honor the man of the day!

The Scrapper Has A Gingerbread Party

At Ava's, where many teens did much decorating.

Madd Max Has A MEME Gang Sleepover

 

Where they strolled Magnolia and used Maddie's gift certificate to Crumbl.

 

The boys stayed outside.

 

The Gang later taught Chase some valuable slang.

 

Communal Roblox playing.

From all rooms.

Even more communal playing of Until Dawn.

Madd Max Has A Friendsmakkah

Where Santa made an appearance.

 

And there was this festive charcuterie board. 

 

The annual jammies were donned.

 

For the annual photo. 

 

Meanwhile, Aarin was doing this. 

 

Since these 2 hosted. 

 

The present opening began.  This time, the kids all decided to take turns, shocking all of the adults. 

 

Who watched in awe.

 

Yay, presents! 

Jess tried to get a photo of her kids looking cute.

But the challenge lay in getting kid 1 to keep her 6-7 tongue in her mouth.

The delicious holiday dinner rounded out the evening.

Madd Max Decorates The Tree

Team lighting.

Even Auntie Jamie jumped in on some of the action.

Madd Max Has A Full Saturday

Lookit that handsome punim.

This sign at the tree lot.

Brought this teen reaction.

The fam went to Eagle Rock where Taisie had a booth at the Artisan Shul Marketplace.

Uno supervised some Xmas decor.

Madd Max Stroll The Beach

Tio Greg came down for brunch.

Some final darts with Uncle Wills.

Family stroll.

This was Tio Greg's first time to beach since moving to LA, and it was the perfect day for it.

Madd Max Head To Dana Point

For Thanksgiving with Aunt Ally's family.

Where they had this elevator. 

And this sunset.

The Thanksgiving spread.

 

Post meal walk complete with decorated palms.

Nightcaps with Tom and Grace.

Followed by some bird calls while the Hunger Games fog rolled in.

Evening wrap up - the annual watching of Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2.