Christmas

Noah woke us up Christmas morning trying to go downstairs. We thought we caught him before he saw all the presents, but little did we know, he'd already been down and played with his toys from Santa. Santa left him a Woody guitar, a stomp rocket, and lots of small toys in his stocking. Santa left Karli a shopping cart with food in it. They received many more toys of course and were spoiled non-stop. Dustin surprised me with a house as a gift! It's a house we'd been looking at for awhile in Long Beach. We should close excrow by the end of January. It will be so great to have space for the kids to play again and be able to put our personality into it. We went to Dustin's Aunt Pam's house for Christmas dinner and the kids had fun with their cousins. It was a great Christmas with many memorable moments.

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Noah was very excited to see Santa and ask him for a Lightning McQueen,.....Karli, not so much. However both kids really enjoyed the train ride with Grace and Caleb. Noah was very proud of his cookies for Santa and gingerbread house I helped him decorate. Karli was our little taste tester, sucking the frosting off cookies.

Beach Cities Dinner

It was the first annual Christmas dinner for beach Cities. The business is growing and it was a fun celebration dinner. Alan, Camille, and Linda are the employees attending. We shared many great laughs over dinner and hope for many more in the future.

Caleb's Birthday

Caleb turned 3 on December 12th and we helped him celebrate. The kids had so much fun trying to break the pinata. They also played pin the pincher on the crab and they went "fishing" for goodies.

Cake Pop Madness

Tiffany and I have been making cake pops like mad the past few months. We are never sure how they will turn out during the process, but always end up cute. My Moms helped me with the turkeys and trees. We have made them for parties, bake sale, teachers, family, and cookie exchange. We have been fortunate that our children play well together and we are able to spend time making these.

Noah Sings

Noah sang in his first preschool program at Los Altos Grace Brethren. He really loved being on stage with us watching. There were hand motions to go along with the songs and he did a great job. Once during the performance, we could hear him above all the other kids. He definitely felt special.

Christmas Season

The kids loved decorating the Christmas tree. We ended up with lots of low ornament clusters, Noah liked to see how many he could hang on one branch. He was very excited to put the star on top and he loves to turn off all the lights in the house so the tree glows. Noah and Karli love to hug each other right now and then sometimes they tumble to the floor. Of course, we're worried that someone may get hurt, meanwhile they are cracking up laughing at each other.

Around Town

Noah loves sitting on Daddy's motorcycle. Every time Noah sees it he wants to sit on it and wear Daddy's helmet. We gave Noah an ice cream cone on his birthday and he loved it! Poor Karli gets all kinds of harassment from me, but it's just too fun and she's too cute!