Ok so I totally know that it's September and all, however I have been totally behind on my blog so I finally decided to sit down and get caught up for the past 9 months.So let's travel back to Christmas break last year. We went to my parents house down in El Centro. After a long 9 hour drive we got there and started to have a great time. We were actually there for 2 weeks so there was a lot of stuff going on. I had to get Lily in one of her Christmas dresses, she is such a cutie!!
One great ting about this Christmas was that all my brothers and sisters were going to be there, this hasn't happened in a long time. The cousins were quite glad to get together so we headed to a park to have a little fun! Randy's family arrived first so my kids were quite happy to hang out with Shauna, Audry and Donovan.
After much fun it was hang out time, to our surprise we received a notice that we needed to make sure that nobody parked on the street since the neighborhood does an annual lanterns of light thing. We didn't quite know what to expect as they came around and put these bags all over the neighborhood. But as the sun finally set and all the candles were lit it was nice to go outside and check it out. It was actually quite cool. Dan worked really hard with all the settings on the camera to get the shots just right. I think they turned out great!
This was all on Christmas eve and I have to say Alex was quite excited this year to be "Santa's Helper" After the kids set out the milk and cookies it was off to bed for some much needed rest!!
Christmas morning was great! My kids were so excited to get their presents between new pillow pets from Santa for all of them they loved it!
I had to get a few pics of the rest of the family, Cameron was quite excited about all his gifts from my parents as well as the rest of my siblings.
The kids all had a great time it was a bit crazy since we took all their presents with us as well, I actually had some of them just shipped there it was easy, However I didn't stop to think that getting it all home would be a bit of a problem. Good thing April was there so we packed up her car to send a lot of it home with her.
Lily loved her horse (and she still does) she was such a cutie and had lots of fun opening her presents.
Alex did get some cool skateboard stuff and has had tons of fun learning to ride. To all of our surprise my brother Scott and his family arrived on Christmas morning after we opened all our presents and it was a surprise since we didn't expect him for a few days. We had a great time hanging out and having fun. One of our activities was a trip to the bowling alley. Its a great bowling alley with and arcade, billiards, bowling of course and other fun activities. However this time was just a time to bowl. We all had a great time bowling it was a lot of fun.
Lily even enjoyed herself just walking around hanging out with everyone.
Bowling and pizza it doesnt' get much better than that. I great fun family activity! We had a great time with family making some great memories! Its always good when everyone can get together, lets just hope it doesn't take another 6 or 7 years!
One last picture to end with was me with my brother's Randy and Scott and our 3 boys. So here is the story behind the picture. Randy is the oldest and I'm second and Scott is third, Randy's first child is a boy, my second child is a boy and Scott's third child is a boy. So there we are in a row with our firsts, seconds, and thirds. These are also the only 3 boy grandchildren all the rest are girls. Too funny now that I think about it. Christmas was great and I am so glad to have the memories to go along with it and to finally get around to blogging about it!
