Christmas Morning

Merry Christmas!!

Wow! Super Hero chutes & ladders.

Pierce showing uncle Matt his tractor book.

It's Stinky the garbage truck!

Even Pierce enjoyed Stinky.

Showing off his new monkey ornament. One of

the non-breakable ones that he could actually touch.

A walking, talking Iron Man

Peeking out behind his Disney book.

In the new play tent.

Sometimes boxes are just as fun as toys!!

Christmas Eve

Brayden said Santa only needed one snowman cookie and one

carrot. And that he would rather drink lemonade.

Santa's snowy footprints!

Fairyland

Took the boys to Fairyland today. Pierce's first time and he had lots of fun. Brayden was finally tall enough to go down the big, fast dragon slide. Uncle Matt joined us as well.

Gilroy Gardens

On Saturday night we went to Gilroy Gardens holiday spectacular down in Gilroy, Ca. It's a horticultural theme park filled with lush gardens, ponds, and waterfalls. And in December it's all decorated for Christmas with thousands of twinkling lights and carols playing over the loudspeaker throughout the entire park. They even have snow!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow....

It's a Charlie Brown Christmas!

Pierce's first solo ride on the zoomin' cars.

Fire truck fun. They were the only ones on the ride.

Driving 50's style cars. Just like the turnpike at Kennywood.

Even Pierce knew what to do.

In front of the waterfall

Hot air balloons

Because every boy needs a glow in the dark sword...

Candy Cane Lane

Pierce Meets Santa

Ho ho ho! Took the boys to see Santa at the mall last night. Walked inside Santa's house and we were the only ones there. Things were going so well at first. Brayden waved, said hi and told him he was three years old. And then I got Pierce out of the stroller and chaos erupted. Stood Pierce in front of Santa and he began screaming. At which point Brayden became completely hysterical off in the corner. This is the only picture we got of Shaun trying to convince both boys that Santa was a really nice man.

Thanksgiving Weekend

Thanksgiving Day: Bruce and Ursula invited everybody over.

Bruce cooked an amazing meal that we all feasted on.

This was the first time these 5 cousins have all

been together in awhile. We were just missing

Hannah & Nik!

Stuffed and watching football

(Unfortunately I didn't pull the camera out

until after we ate.)

Friday afternoon: Took the four kids to babies beach in Dana Point.

What's the beach without Snow White?

Milla loves the water, she went through 3 outfits in 90 minutes!

Pierce found a big hole to play in.

Friday night: Dinner at a Japanese steak house in Laguna Beach.

Our chef was very entertaining for the kids. And the food was great!

volcano

Saturday afternoon: Rick and Laura invited us down to San

Diego for pasta. The kids enjoyed playing together outside.

Action shot of Zofia jumping for a flower.