The Princesses are home!

Balboa Beach

A kid after my own heart! BJ's is one of my favorite restaurants, not only for their Delicious pizza but the even better Pizzokie, Kailey was scrapping the bowl, I'm surprised she didn't lick the pan! (i would have!)

The kids on the merry-go-round

Annalyn got this awesome shot of this random person... you cant help but smile when you see him!

"The Intimidator"

Mom Jordan and Dad, This was my first Ferris wheel ride! I know, Crazy!?

Grandma, Grandpa and Kailey on the Ferris wheel

Carter hanging out in the bjorn

our groupies who couldn't fit in the ginormous bike

yes its true, Deidre and I are in for an easy ride! we didnt do to much pedaling that is!

The group shot, dad doesn't seem to fit, annalyn isn't pedaling (go figure, kidding!) and there are still 4 more of us on the other side!

Kailey and Jordan got front row seats in the 8 passenger bike

The festive Christmas day!

The morning started at 5:45am (not because of my kids but Paige and Jason are of prime wake up early age.

Andy and his sock puppet, i think he looks about how we all do at 5:45am

then the unwrapping began

The princess towel, who doesn't need one of these, i mean it has a crown attached?

Dad helping Carter with his new hammer! (thanks Tim and Kristen)

Jordan sneaking a little play time in between presents the floor after the presents were all unwrapped

Kailey, Jordan steal some alone time with Lily's presents

Meanwhile Shaun takes a nap with Carter...

who really wasn't sleeping at all

Grandpa lee and Carter had had enough excitement for the day

ended with a nice game of Jenga!

Christmas Eve

Jordan sporting her new Christmas eve Pj's

Kailey in hers, she was upset because lily got princess ones

Carter attacking mom

The Cooks and The Rasmussen's doing our traditional New Years predictions

Bruce read the Christmas story om Christmas eve (Natalie, Lily and Kailey)

Driving home for the holidays

this picture made me think we were driving to heaven (in a way we were, nice warm weather, family and presents )

Shaun didn't have any sunglasses so he found my goggles and used them... he got a pair of sunglasses for Christmas!

Grandpa Clyde comes to town

Grandpa came to town on his way to spend Christmas with Tim and Kristin. He shoveled our sidewalks (only to guarantee it snow again as soon as he finished) he fixed towel racks and even put on the fronts of the drawers to the built in desk! thanks Clyde, we will take you visiting any day!

Christmas song by the kids

Spencer wanted to put a show on so they sang Christmas songs for us, it was dark because they are singing by the light of the Christmas tree, they are getting so big!

Condie Cousin Christmas

Jordan, Kailey, Preston, Spencer and Tanner. "hooray for presents!" (babies Emily and Carter are sleeping)

Jordan was a little possessive with the present they both got

They made cupcakes! Awesome present guys! come over for desserts anytime!

My little guy is growing up!

My happy little camper! he knows he is getting big from the army crawls he been doing! and our clapping and hollering at him

This is his attempt at "real crawling" he was laughing and kept getting up on his head and feet, every once in a while he would look over at us and wave with his head still down and his butt still up. funny kid! he was totally doing it for the laugh

He was attacked by a kid earlier in the day that is why his nose looks scratched.. it is. I am so lucky to have such good kids! really they are! and the huge cranium comes from Shaun, gotta love it!

snow fight for 4 yr olds

snows dayzzzz

(thanks Scott!)

A little bit of snow angels and playing in the snow calls for a little bit of... Hot Chocolate mustaches and hyper little kids!

Back to life

Jordan trying to call Jessie on the phone. She already had breakfast and was moving on to pretzels. ( the new Cheddar ones are really good!)

Kailey eating her 4th bowl of cereal! and they were full bowls!!!

No more guest so it back to babysitting and just us! Today Kailey and Jordan found some of my jewelry from when i was a kid so they are sporting a little bling today

Thank You Ryanand Annalyn

awesome brother award goes to Ryan and Annalyn. For Christmas they decided to upgrade our full to a queen! now no more complaining about the crappy bed that once was. It was a great idea and now there is no excuse about not staying here. i just need a new comforter now.

Fuddruckers

Jacob and Deidre came to celebrate Jessie being in town (granted she was in SL with Chris the first night) so we celebrate by eating fudds! yum I think the pictures speak for themselves

When Jessie comes to town Disaster strikes!

So that sounds bad but its a good thing! Jessie came in town and of course we took no pictures to document it, we were just to busy making desserts! we didn't really do anything we watched an entire season of Starter Wife, decided we were brave enough to take the girls to Happy Sumo and Carabbas and that's about it. Both Shaun and Chris were out of town so we got to at least have fun being together.
The aftermath of dessert night! we made: Whole Wheat Bread, Peanut Brittle, Sugar cookies, Peppermint Bark, Carmel Corn, Oreo truffles and Reese's cookies! oh what fun! (don't worry we walked about 3 miles the next day!)

Its amazing what team cleaning can accomplish! (i think i need to teach this skill to Shaun?!)

Chris came in Town Fri night and we all went to body world Sat, A very cool exhibit worth seeing! I don't think i have ever seen Kailey cry so hard and so long after Jessie left. She sat on the stairs for about 15 min saying "i want Jessie" pretty sad, but we will miss her! come back soon!