Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving 2010

This year we were lucky enough to get to go to Arizona for Thanksgiving. We got to go visit our cousins the Tebbs in their brand new beautiful house. My mom had a lot of fun getting to decorate it for Christmas while we were there. I got a hair cut from Tessa who is right out of beauty school and she did a good job. Mallory was in love with the Tebbs dog Tilly and she played fetch with her all day. The kids went shooting and had fun doing that.

Harry Potter Midnight Premiere!

We had my birthday party a little early this year because I wanted to go see the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part one. It was a lot of fun and luckily not a lot of waiting in line. We went to the theater at about 9:00 and had to wait in line for only an hour. And because we went to go see it at the Rave we just walked around and looked in all the shops while we were waiting. They let us in the theater at 10:00 and we just waited and talked in the theater until the movie started. I loved the movie so much and I think all the other girls did too. Since then I have seen it twice now I loved it so much. I got a lot of cash which is exactly what I wanted and it helped me pay for my new iPod Nano! I also got a lot of Barnes and Noble gifts cards which I had fun spending.

Gingerbread House 2

My mom and I were out shopping the other day and we saw this really awesome gingerbread house that was made out of a darker gingerbread and all the candy that came with it was peppermint. My mom couldn't resist so she returned to the store and bought it even though she had already made one.

Christmas Decorating!

Yes, we already have our house all decorated for Christmas and it is still the middle of November. Yesterday on our day off from school we spent it decorating our gingerbread houses and putting up the Christmas tree. This year we all got our own and so it was a lot more fun getting to decorate our own individual house. Jaxson was really funny because we were expecting him to just slap candy on there and then eat the rest. But instead he was super careful. He wanted his to look just like the one on the box. It was so cute and funny and he did a very good job. My mom did her graham cracker and cereal houses again and they were very fun.

From left to right: Mallory, Jaxson, Lauren, and Me.

Halloween 2010

Halloween was a little different this year because of it being on Sunday which means no trick or treating. But we still got a lot of candy from the trunk or treating church party on Friday. On Monday we carved pumpkins. The girls had a school parade for all the kids wearing their costumes on Friday. Jaxson had a preschool party also. For costumes this year we had Zac as a hobo, Lauren a hippie, Mallory a baby, Jaxson as Ironman, and I was a very sad looking Harry Potter.

Disneyland!

I'm back! Sorry Dad but your 15 minutes of fame are over. Last week was Disneyland and we had a ton of fun. Even though it wasn't very great weather we really enjoyed it. The definite favorite was Thunder Mountain Railroad which Jaxson even loved. Space Mountain was not such a great experience for him. We had some tears on that one. My personal favorites were Indiana Jones, California Screamin', Tower of Terror, and of course It's a Small World. It was pouring all day Tuesday so we ended the day early. We went back to the hotel, got dry, and then went out to lunch at Ruby's (thanks Morrell's!). We raced back to Disneyland to try to beat the rain and the very second we walked into Downtown Disney it started raining again! So we just shopped in the rain for a little while. I think that a lot of the kids had more fun shopping than actually going on rides! We spent every shopping in Downtown Disney. Mostly we bought a lot of candy and caramel apples and things like that. Legos and keychains were also very popular.