Christmas 2008!

We had such a wondeful Christmas. I hope all of you did as well. It all started with Christmas Eve and the 24 family members who came over for dinner. I wish that I had a picture but didn't get my new camera until Christmas day. We had family in from New York, New Hampshire and Reno. It was so nice to have both my dad and moms side together for one night. My Aunt Carol made lasagna for dinner and it was delicious. Thanks Carol. Kim and Don brought over their Wii and we played Rock Band until 11:30 when we got kicked off because Santa was coming. Rock Band was so much fun!! (Except for Kim and my dad telling me how bad my voice was)

Christmas day was a little smaller but just as good. Our family had decided to only get presents for the kids. However, my mom and dad surprised me by getting me a new camera. I was so happy. I had been looking to buy one for a while but wanted to wait until after Christmas. It was perfect. Of course, all the kids got spoiled. What is Christmas without kids getting spoiled? Trevor and Taylor are at such a fun age. We had a great time watching them open their presents. It was such a nice day relaxing with my wonderful family. Dinner was amazing. My mom cooked prime rib that was soooooo good.

I feel so blessed to have the family that I do. Thank you to all of them for making such a memorable Christmas. Christy, Dave, Emily, Ethan, Nancy, Roger, Jim, Faira and all the locals: You are the BEST!!!!

Me and my two favorite second cousins, Ethan and Emily

Me and Trevor. Look at his cheesy smile. He is so funny.

Ethan, Trevor and Emily. They bought him a new helmet.

Dave and Aunt Carol and the delicious prime rib that my mom cooked.

Christy and Dave relaxing between opening presents and dinner.

Ethan and Emily with their mini ping pong table. Because they live in New Hampshire, Christy and Dave made this ping pong table out of cardoard. Pretty creative.

Trevor and Don. Another cheesy smile.

My dad and Trevor. Yet another cheesy but cute smile.

Baby Addison, Emily and Taylor.

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas to everybody. I hope you all are having a wonderful day. I got a new camera from Santa so I am hoping I will become a better blogger. The camera is charging as we speak so I will post as soon as it is done.

Christmas party and Kim's birthday

I had such a great weekend. It started on Saturday night with my friend Kaycee's annual Christmas party. She is such a wonderful hostess and always goes all out. We had such a great time. We usually dress up for the party but this year was a theme. The theme was old Christmas sweaters/sweatshirts. It was hilarious. The guys definitely looked the best because they were all wearing girls sweaters that barely fit. We played some games while we were there. I don't know the name of the game we played below but notice the girls on one side and boys on the other. We dominated. Notice the outfit on the guy at the far end. Awesome!!



There is a game that we have recently started to play called cornhole. This is a picture of one of the boards. Basically, you throw beanbags at the board and try to get it in the little hole. You get points for getting it in the hole and for landing on the board. I definitely need to practice, I was not very good at it.

Jenn and I in our fabulous sweaters. It is hard to see but the neck of mine has white cotton around it.

Jenn, Kelli, me, Annette, Laurie, Shannon, Lori and Lindsey.

On Sunday was Kim's birthday. We went to brunch at a place called Chomp in Fullerton. We all had a great time visiting and relaxing with no kids for a while. Here is a picture of Julie, Shannon, Kim, Jeana, me and Angie. Amanda was also there but we didn't take a picture until later.

Shannon, Jeana and Angie

Julie, the birthday girl and me

So excited because only 8 more school days until Christmas break and only a couple weeks until all the family is coming in.

Medieval Times

Last night, Trevor and I went to Medieval Times. I had been wanting to take him for some time and finally did. I figured that he would love it but was a little concerned that he would be scared. My first thought was right on. The only time that he got scared was before the show started and the lights turned off. As soon as he saw the first knight come out on a horse, he was hooked.
Here is a picture of Trev and I with a knight before going in.

He absolutely loved watching the horses. I was told to get there an hour before the show started. That is a long time for a 3 1/2 year old but he was great. This is him checking out the horses before the show.

We were on the red knights team. I bought him a flag to wave around and I don't think he ever put it down. This is him showing his support for our red knight.

The look on his face during the show was absolutely priceless. He was in awe. I am so fortunate that I got to be there with him. I don't know what I watched more, the show or his face. I wish that I could have got a better picture of his face but he wouldn't look away long enough to get it. This picture is what he looked like the entire time. So concentrated and cute.

The entire show, he kept asking me if our red guy was going to win. He was so into it. Unfortunately our guy didn't win. Some white knight came in at the end took everybody out. We were both really bummed. I don't remember that happening the last time I went there but I guess things have changed.

I had to include this picture as well. I bought TT a pink princess crown while we were there. It is not a great picture but you get the idea. She was walking around wearing it and telling us that she was a princess. Too cute!!!!

P.S. Regarding my last post, I found a teacher who really wanted to teach an afterschool intervention class. I don't know why but I didn't ask. Anyways, he is taking over my class two days a week so I am off the hook. Yippee!!!!