Monday, February 14, 2011

santa party

Before christmas we were invited to a friends neighborhood to see santa. Avery year this santa has a party outside his house and has cookies, punch and he gives each of the kids a toy and a candy cane. A bunch of people from our ward were there and the kids had so much fun...

Here are some yummy cookies we made to take to santas house, to share with everyone.

Gingerbread house party!!!!



I thought it would be fun to start a new tradition this year. I baked the walls and made the frosting and we had so much fun













we will for sure be making this a annual thing.

Christmas Tree lighting...











Our community had a tree lighting ceremony at the Ymca near our home and we decided to take the kids. There was hot chocolate and cookies for the kids to decorate. There were carolers and Santa came!!!






Later we decorated our tree.







So fun... i love this time of year.
Thanksgiving was lots of fun. We went to my sisters house in san Diego. The kids LOVE it here. there are so many fun things to play with.















Although you cant really tell on Ash and aves face, They LOVE uncle Jared and Aunt megan, and cant wait for them to come back and play...













Daddy being silly with at fro....

disneyland continued........

Later in the evening we went to the christmas parade (havent seen in YEARS.
THis was ashleys favorite part. She LOVED the snoflake dancers and is Convinced that she WILL be them for next Halloween. (looks easy enough, right)
Averys first time on Splash Mountain. Looks a little unsure of this. But he had fun in the end (except for the fact that we were in the front and got soaking wet.
Time for a break... the gang sitting and watching a disney movie.
Taitlynne chilaxin in line with her cousins.
In November my brother and sister in law were coming down to visit from Missouri. WE decided it would be fun to take the kids to disneyland. SO my mom and dad joined us as well as my sister and her kids. It was a really fun day and the first time Ashley and Avery go to go with Grandma and Grampa.
Here we got to ride Splash mountain with everyone. It was Averys first time (he just barely hit the 40 inch mark)
Grampa got to sit with avery during Haunted house ride

Here is my brother (with his silly mustache) and his wife!!!! they are so cute together
Ok so its been a LONG time since i updated and I dont even know where to start. so Lets start off from the holidays. The first thing we did to kick off the holidays was to take some pitcures for our Christmas card (which we never sent out, cause i didnt like them)


So I gathered the family and took them to the TRAIN Station, in san juan capistrano. I went here before with a friend and I loved all the architecture. Here are just a couple....



I actually blew these pics up and hung them at home.