Christmas

I love the magic of Christmas.  We had the kids special santa party with mom (that ended up with the whole family), then we spent Christmas Eve with the Jackman/Bailey clan.  I love their traditional baby Jesus scavenger hunt.  The kids dress up like the nativity and read scriptures around the house gathering symbols, until we get to the manger where we sing Christmas hymns.  We went home to celebrate Christmas with Aaron because he had to work on Christmas day.  Christmas morning we headed down to Anna's for lunch and presents.  It was such a fun holiday this year.

Santa Visits Home Depot

We went to do the free craft and Home Depot today and we were surprised to find Santa there.

The kids made their requests and I called to tell Aaron we wouldn't be coming to see Santa at Harmon's cause that might be hard to explain.

Ice Queen

Her favorite pastime this winter was to go ice fishing with dad. She got to pick the treats- and have him all to herself. What's not to love?

Nutcracker Ballet

This year the boys got to join us at the ballet. 

They were all so well behaved. Reagan didn't take her eyes off the ballerinas the entire time!  We love our Christmas traditions. 

Santa Brunch 2013

It's our favorite holiday event!  Our good friends host a fabulous brunch every year, where Santa and Mrs. Claus come to visit. It's magical, thanks Wrights for inviting us and all the work you put into this event!

Festival of Trees Performance

Reagan had her first dance performance at the festival of trees.  It
was so fun to watch her up on stage.  She wasn't nervous at all.  When
we told her she did a good job she said "I know!"

Ashton Learns to Skate

We went to the free skate night at the university for scouts.  It was Ashton's first time skating.  He did  an awesome job...and he fell in love with it.  He can't wait to go back.

Family Drive

On the way to thanksgiving dinner my boys wouldn't stop fighting sooo... Aaron made them hold their hands in the air until we got to his dads. Ha ha. I think they learned. 

Thanksgiving Performance

Colten's kindergarten class had a performance scheduled for the night of the awful wind storms.  Unfortunately that caused the power to go out in the school, so on emergency battery power the kids sang one song and they called it a night.  This is all I could get because of how dark it was.Cute boy was so excited.  We made up for it by going to Farr's for ice cream after.

San Fran Getaway

San Fran travel time line: fly in, get a quarter of a ride from the airport to sketchy neighborhood in Oakland by crazy driver who almost rolled the van nicknamed "Tokyo Drift". Run to shuttle, barely get on. Take that to Bart. Ride to downtown San Francisco. Get bad information and walk 3 hours to the marina district on wedges up and down hills of SF to our hotel. 

Spend a great couple of great days touring the city.  We loved Haight Ashbury, the Pier, Alcatraz, and our tour guide was hilarious.  Yummy food, of course sourdough and clam chowder but also Vietnamese and street tacos.  My husband is such good company- we had a blast.

 The day we leave we wake up to get on shuttle we ordered to take us to the airport at 7 am. Driver informs us that he can't take us to the airport but will take us to the Bart entrance. Drops us off at the Muni not Bart, walk 5 blocks to the Bart. Get off and on another bus to airport, through security just in time to get on our plane. Sit on the plane to find out the driver thing-a-ma-jig is broken. De-plane, sit for 4 hours waiting for a rescue plane. Lands to announce the auto-pilot is broken. Go to get parts from original plane to fix 2nd plane. Find out they can't fix it and are sending a 2nd rescue airplane. After 12 hours in the airport we made it home safely. This is what my husband calls "adventure".