Merry Michigan Christmas

We had a wonderful Michigan Christmas with
our whole families filled with...

song

excitement

laughs

and presents!

We hope that you had a fabulous holiday with family and friends!

Christmases Past and Present

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2008

2009

Oh Tannenbaum

Our beautiful Fraser Fir

Looks like everyone's been good this year

Maize missed out on the Christmas card again this year,
so she wanted to send this to you...

Merry Christmas
from my doghouse to yours.
Love, Maize Mountain Jam Hamm

Christmas preparations continue

We love this time of year in our city. The lights and holiday excitement even excuse the crowds and out-of-town gawkers. We have been busy gingerbread decorating, Christmas shopping and wrapping, downtown strolling, sugar cookie decorating, snowman building...only 10 more days until Christmas!

eloise's 3 best friends

We are really looking forward to our Christmas in Michigan. We are especially excited to spend time with Grandpa Walker as he continues to recover. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers...he seems to be doing great. TGFTW!

Winter WonderFest at Navy Pier

We took Eloise to the WonderFest today and she loved it! The convention center at Navy Pier was converted to a winter wonderland complete with ice skating rink, countless Christmas trees, Santa Clauses from around the world, a train, and rides and games galore. She always loves the bouncy things, so she enjoyed running around and testing all of them out. We are trying to take advantage of all the Christmas activities in the city...so much to do and Eloise is the perfect age for the fun this year.

giant bouncy slide

decorating sugar cookies

wheeeeeee

Christmas kick-off

Elle's Santa Claus visit went much better this year! She was so excited to meet him and happily sat on his lap and told him that she wanted a doll for Christmas (duly noted). They chatted and allowed our paparazzi like shots for a few minutes before she hoped off, said "Merry Christmas, Santa" and galloped away with her candy cane. Success!

Watching the train set at Breton Village which unfortunately gives Dr. Dave cognitive dissonance due to the inaccurate scale.

Listening to carolers and watching the lighting of the Christmas tree in Gaslight Village

Petting Santa's reindeer at Gaslight Village

Frederik Meijer Gardens

Exploring the Christmas trees from all over the world

Hands off Baby Jesus!

Choo Choo train

Silly face and bruises (it's become a Hamm holiday tradition)

Feeding Daddy pretend chocolate from the Chocolate Tree