Christmas 2012

Well I thought this post was a tad bit over due and apparently I never posted it.  My goodness time is flying by, all three of our kids are growing up way too fast.  I guess better late than never, right?!?!?!?

It's the "Christmas Post" ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeeeeahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are watching a Christmas special on television odds are it's "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer" for the 1000 time...........................  I love it they are all sooooo cute!!!  We let them open one gift together on December 23rd, Mada left the next day for Utah to spend Christmas with her Dad!!!

We had so many deliver at our door that turned out to be BIG boxes of gifts that now every time the door bell rings Max yells out "presents" and runs to the door!!!  We are just so blessed and lucky!!  

As you can see from the picture Zoe is thrilled to be taking the photo...  Actually Sarah had suggested we eat breakfast first before opening presents and oddly enough Zoe was cool with it in fact she thought it was a great idea, Max on the other hand is a normal child and wanted no part of that idea....  Max won!!!

It's our first Christmas all together in California and as usual the presents were over whelming.  After the first gift it all became a blurrrrrrrr.................  The kids would open one present and barely look at it before requesting the next.  The challenge was slowing them down.

Max got a new Strider (blance) bike from Santa Claus and Zoe got a scooter just like her big sister Mada except pink was the only acceptable color.

Dad's visit to California

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My beautiful girl!!!!

Swimming together in the resort we are so lucky to live in...

From left to right

Grandpa Chris (GC), Kayla (Mada's friend), Mada, Paige (Zoe's Friend) and Sarah, Max is in the gigantic hole I dug behind GC

The entry way leading to this massive hole in the sand.

We finally make to the beach, not that my Dad needed the sun...

Mada is doing AMAZING in school!!!  While this is the first time she has shared the outstanding news with us, it is NOT the first time.  Apparently the other certificates are......................somewhere she has no clue where.  Regardless, she is consistently on the honor roll and we could not be more proud of her!!!!  

Max playing on the beach all by himself and his wonderful sister (Zoe) came over 

and dumped a bucket of water over his head!!!

He loved every second of it, he's crazy!!!!

As she gets older it's harder to get photos of our oldest!

Almost a teenager (5 more weeks)

I just thought she looked great in this picture!!

Saturday...

Our day began with pancakes in the morning and all the kids glued to the video game "Toy Story 3"

I can't believe we need to wrestle the kids away from the game.  They literally decline to go play outside and have even passed on swimming!!!  Max and Zoe both on different occasions have been caught down stairs in the middle of the night playing or have simply passed out from playing sleeping with controllers in their hands.

Anyways... 

After pancakes we made our way to the pool and swam all morning then headed home for lunch.

After lunch we headed to the movies to see "How to Train your Dragon 2"  OUTSTANDING!!!  Everyone will love this film.  Sarah and Mada were caught crying during the sad parts but Max and I hung tough!!

From there we went home quick packed up things grabbed a pizza and headed for a Ward beach party in Laguna Beach!!!

After about two hour of searching and no luck finding the party we decided to plant ourselves on the beach and party ourselves.  It was wonderful, the beach had started to cool off and it was over caste but so beautiful...  We are so lucky to live in such a gorgeous place!!!

We were playing frisbee for a little while till Max decided it would be fun to bury the frisbee in the sand when no one was watching... We have NO frisbee any longer!!!

It was an AMAZING day!!!

Sunday morning was busy because Mada was singing a solo at church.  Sarah and Mada left early so Mada could sing with the pianist and practice.  Max, Zoe and myself followed to to far behind.  We sat front row and I did my best to record her performance.  The shakes are from Max bumping me!!!

The video does not do the performance justice I'm sorry.  Sarah was beaming and I could not be more proud!!!

That's it for now we love and miss you all!!!!