LEGO LAND

So we went to Lego Land this week and it was AMAZING!

We enjoyed our day their more than Disney which i thought i would never say. But this was perfect for our 5 and 2 year old. They loved to see all the statues of everything made out of Lego's.

 

This was on Lacy's favorite ride. It was jungle themed with all different animals made out of Lego's, of course.

There next favorite one were these Lego cars that they actually got to drive. Lacy was a little under the age limit but we got her in and she drove better than most of the kids.

Ryan loved it as well. I can just see him in 10 years from now. Oh that is coming too soon. The kids got a little licence that they carried around all day. That is until Ryan lost his and Lacy ate hers:)

This next ride was called the claw or something like that. It picks you up and spins you in all different directions. Ryan was actually crying when he got on cause he was so scared, but Brent and I made him go because we knew he would love it. And he did.

 Here we are just enjoying ourselvess together!

I cant wait to go back. We just need to find someone to give us free tickets again.

Christmas Day 2010

Christmas morning, my favorite:0

I told Ryan that when he wakes up to come and get me first. SO 6am roles around and in he comes. I actually made him come in our room and play for a bit since the rest of the world was still asleep. Finally we made him wait long enough and we went to wake up the rest of the bunch. Here is there pix right before we went down stairs. Lacy can hardly contain herself...

 I love the first look, Ryan got the ultimate GI Joe battle station. He wanted something all his "mans" could play on. Thanks Santa

 You cant see Lacy's face here very well but boy was she excited.

 Ryan got his DS he had been waiting for.

 New towels, of course Lacy got a princess one:)

 And Ryan got a monster one, at least i think that's what it is?

 I think Lacy's favorite present was her lip gloss. She carried it around all day.

 Traditional picture in front of the tree with all the gifts

 Later that my grandparents and Aunt and Uncle came over.

 My Uncle Carl was in a band for years so he played and sang some Christmas songs for us

 We all sat and listened, Later we had our Carne Asada Christmas dinner. Yum Yum

*Merry Christmas 2010*

Christmas Week

The beginning of our Christmas week started off with Tiffanie, Josh, and baby Jaxon coming in from Seattle, Washington. The night they got here we threw a surprise birthday party for Josh. His first one ever! It was a blast. All the family came. We celebrated with Josh's favorite, Lasagna and then a very yummy pumpkin chocolate chip cake for desert all thanks to my wonderful mother. Josh was totally surprised.

 We took a pretty awesome family picture. This is all the brothers and sisters, their spouses, nieces and nephews, my uncle and his friend, and my grandparents. I cant imagine what it will be like in another 5 years. We will need a bigger room:)

 We had lots of cousin time. It was so fun to have Lacy and Jaxon play so good together.

 A couple days later we all met up at my house. My mom had surprised everyone with matching shirts. Kind of an inside joke in our house. We all went out to eat at The Money Pitt in San Marcos. I introduced Tiffanie to it last summer and she insists on going there when she comes to visit. We then met up at my uncles diner in Ensanitas for some hot cocoa and then headed to the beach for some family pictures that i am sad to say didn't turn out. Don't take pictures in the dark...

 Christmas Eve we headed over to my Brother Troy's house. There was lots of Wii playing!

 and lots of opening presents

 Grandma and ALL  her grand kids

 WHAT is this....

Josh, Zach and Brent all got remote control helicopters for Christmas. Pretty much any spare time they had they spent flying the around and having races.

 When we got home we did our good ol' pj party.

Lacy, Jaxon, Ryan

Here are the kids about to put the rain deer food out on the front porch. It was so fun this year. The kids were super excited about Santa coming. Up next is the Christmas post.

My Honey Turned 30!!! * NOV 14th *

 I am a slacker and didn't post this a month ago, but i felt like i still should. We celebrated over a two day period, not really on purpose, that's just what happened. Saturday we did our family pictures( below), then came home and dropped the kids off with my family. We went out to dinner at Red Robin (yum:) and then went and saw a movie. My sister Hannah kept saying how boring we were to go to a dinner and a movie, but we had gift cards to both things. Free is okay with me. We had a great time. I love that after almost eight years we still enjoy each others company. I wouldn't want to spend a night any other way than being with my hubby. I am thankful for birthdays. My family has always celebrated big. not necessarily in presents but just making that persons day special. Sunday morning we had the special birthday pancakes. Later, after church, we had presents and carne asade. Brent's all time favorite meal.

HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY BRENT!

One year older..

My baby turned 5 today! I just cant believe it.

 

We headed out for Disneyland early in the morning and stopped by our favorite donut shop, Ryan picked out his favorite and we sung him 'the song.' We had to substitute donuts for the normal tradition of pancakes but we were all happy. We then headed off to a day at Disney. I forgot my camera in the car( so mad!) We had a fun time until i realized Ryan just wasn't acting himself and wouldn't go on almost any ride. After a few hours i finally decided that he had an ear infection. ( Me- Dr. Mom) We decided to leave early and head for Applebee's, his choice for his birthday dinner.

Here is Ryan at Applebee's with his new toy he got to pick out at Disney. It was a great day spent spoiling this perfect little boy. I couldn't ask for a better son.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN

Kids say the dardest things...

Lacy-
Me- Brent look at their( Ryan and Lacy) eyes. They are both blue but they looks so different.
Lacy- No my eyes aren't blue, they are PINK.
Me- Really, so what color are my eyes?
Lacy -PINK
Me- What color is Ryan's eyes?
Lacy- Blue
Me- What color are Daddy's eyes?
Lacy- Blue

So from this i get that Girls have pink eyes and boys have blue eyes. Something i never new before.

Ryan-
I love disneyland, i cant wait to go to disneyland for my birthday. I love all the creatures there.
Me- creatures.. you mean characters... lol

I sure do love my kids, they make me laugh everyday:)

A peak of the BEST family pictures!!!

TurkeyFingers

My wonderful mom was watching my niece and nephew yesterday, which is always a blast for my kids since they are all so close in age. My mom made sugar cookies and then traced all four kids hand prints on paper then covered the paper with wax paper. She then spent who knows how long cutting out 12 little hands all in there individual hand shapes. After dinner we painted them into turkeys. It was a lot of fun. Here are some pictures of the turkey event...

This is(above) how the cookies started out. Well plus one finger that Ryan ate off.

         

                                                              

The painting begins

Some went straight to eating! I think Lacy ate more frosting than what went on her cookie.

You can never go wrong frosting sugar cookies. I have never done Thanksgiving cookies in the past, but i might have to start a new tradition:0 Thanks Grandma

Happy Birthday Hannah!!!

Today we celebrated Hannah's 14th birthday.  It was such a fun day. It started off with The yummiest french toast for breakfast, then off to church. We came home and made the birthday food. On the closest Sunday to our birthday we get to choose what we want for dinner and desert. Hannah chose one of my specialties ( my mom actually make it though.) Italian chicken with rice and corn on the cob. For desert my mom made a Brownie chocolate chip ice cream cake. It was by far the BEST cake i have ever had. Hannah actually thought that it was from a store, she was shocked to know it was homemade. I think homemade things are always better:)

Here are some pictures of the night...

            Hannah got some good gifts and we played some fun games. I actually hid her present, which was the new Taylor swift CD, and hid the clues in balloons throughout the house and she had to pop all the balloons and put the clues together to find it. I hid it in the toilet tank. It took her a while to figure it out. We also blind folded her put bright lipstick on and make her play pin the kiss on the cute guy. Lets just say she is a big fan of Taylor or "Jacob." She was totally embarrassed and it was so fun.

My uncle Jimmy put on the socks that he gave to Hannah and we decided he looked like Eeyore, so he went and got my Eeyore cup and tried to look just like him. I think he got pretty close.

I love spending time with my family. Its always loud and crazy, but so much fun.I love that all our kids get along so great. I love having a big family. We definitely miss the ones who aren't close anymore and cant be at our family functions...TIFFANIE. Maybe one day we will all live close to each other.