Now that's a reaction

We all know it's better to give to receive, I mean what makes you feel better than giving someone that "perfect" gift. Grandma Sylvia got sooo excited when she opened her Christmas present. The look on her face is awesome. It even brought tears to her eyes. Now that's what I'm talking about! :)

Here comes Santa

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. We had a happy one over here. It was low key. Grandma Sylvia came up and we cooked a nice Christmas lunch. We stayed inside (it was a rainy day) and played with all of our new toys.

The boys made some adorable & yummy cookies for Santa.
Ready for bed, excited for the morning.
A natural on his new guitar.
Cooper was so happy Santa finally brought him a marshmallow gun. He had been asking for a couple of years now. He has a system down and freezes his mallows for optimum distance.

Merry (late) Christmas everyone!

Happy Birthday...

...to me

Enjoying a nice birthday dinner. The kids loved watching the food being cooked right in front of us. It was so yummy.
...to Billy
Billy turned 19 on the 18th. He had a great time going out with his friends. I was able to steal a few moments with him to sing happy birthday and eat cake.

Tree time

OK...so I'm a little behind but keeping things in order here I thought I'd post these tree photos.

We went to our usual tree spot to pick out our tree. It was pouring rain so the tractor/hay ride wasn't running which was a bummer for Cameron. Somehow every year he ends up driving the tractor so when it was closed he probably would have rather come back another day. But we were there so we tromped around in the rain and mud and found ourselves the perfect tree.

Running into Santa was a huge plus, he gave out huge candy canes.
Finding some shelter under the trees.
Every year we walk over looking for a choose & cut and end up getting a pre-cut from the barn. We still have to go through the motions though. We ended up getting a great tree. I will show you some pics in the next post. Christmas, here we come!

Gobble Gobble

Well beings that Christmas is 2 days away, I figured I'd better wish everyone a Happy late Thanksgiving. With some early snowfall we made a last minute trip to Tahoe to get some skiing in over the holiday. Here we are hanging out between runs (see even Thanksgiving football on in the background).

This is the first year we have all 4 been able to ski together. It is so cool going on the runs with the boys. Poor Eddie gets held back but its worth every green run he does before we know it they will be out skiing us.
Coopers first "official" lift. He did great getting on and off and the boys had so much fun skiing together.
So, not a bad way to spend Thanksgiving although if we ever do it again we will skip the Thanksgiving dinner buffet and just order a pizza. There is something about filling up on stuffing from a buffet that just isn't right. :)

The Happiest Place on Earth!

Wow...I think I finally figured this out. I hope you enjoy this slideshow of our Disneyland trip. It's a bit long so before you start you may want to pop some popcorn and slip your slippers on...get comfy & enjoy!

Happy Birthday Cameron

Cameron celebrated his 9th Birthday the Saturday after Thanksgiving. We started the day heading home from a last minute ski trip to Tahoe for Thanksgiving. A surprise snow storm changed our original plans so we spent the holiday in Tahoe and came home on Cameron's birthday. I posted these pictures in the wrong order so we'll start with the evening first.

Cameron's favorite gift. He had been talking about this for about a month. Lucky we came through with it, nothing else seemed to matter.
The happy look when he discovered his gift....worth every penny of it.
Cracking up at a "gag" gift we got him. Once again worth every cent!
A little pose in the snow after breakfast. Can you tell we got a bit distracted while coloring? haha
On our way into his Birthday breakfast.
He couldn't have asked for a better spot to pose for a birthday picture. He'd been wanting to climb on this thing for days.

HAPPY 9th BIRTHDAY CAMERON. xo