Christmas

Christmas Day....

The beautiful tree, with tons of presents!

starting to open everything up

Tim, Stacey, Grammy Bunny and Kenzie waiting to open presents

Bella barely looked at any other present once she got her Tinkerbell cell phone

opening up her gift

Mackenzie trying to eat her new toy

new soldier stuff

Donovan concentrating on his present

Jackson was very excited to get WALL-E

Bella with her new carebear

reindeer Kenzie

Bella (still on her phone) and Mackenzie playing with some of their new toys

and the damage after all of the gifts!

Christmas Eve

Here is how our Christmas Eve went!

Jack getting the cookies ready for Santa.....

tracking Santa's progress on the computer......

looks like Mackenzie is excited for Santa to come!

The Gingerbread Man

Jackson's kindergarten class performed a play called The Gingerbread Man. His teacher asked the kids who they wanted to be in the play, and Jackson told her he wanted to be the Grandpa. It was a really cute musical, and the kids did GREAT!

the stage before the kids went up

Jack waiting before the play started

sitting with his friends Ty who is in the other kindergarten class

Lindsay the Grandma and Jackson the Grandpa, aren't they adorable! (Jack chose his shirt, he told me that Grandpas wear button shirts LOL)

Bella got a little restless so we took turns with her

Bella and Mommy

walking around with Daddy and Donovan

when nothing else works....give the kid a cookie :)

the boys enjoying their cookies after the play was done!

Christmas Cookies

We decided to make Christmas cookies and let the boys decorate them. They loved it and had so

much fun!

Donovan cutting out the cookies

The finished cookies!

Cutest cheerleaders around!

Both Isabella and my niece Mackenzie have gotten in on the college football action by wearing their favorite teams cheerleading uniforms. Arent they beautiful!

Bella supporting the University of California at Berkeley Golden Bears

and Kenzie supporting the Ohio State Buckeyes

Old CCC Friends

Two of my friends from my CCC days came out to visit. Robin had flown in from Oregon to visit family and drove out to Walnut Creek for the day. Brandi, who lives near Yosemite, drove out too. It was so fun to have all 3 of us together with the kids, we havent been all 3 together since my wedding 6 1/2 years ago, and then before that since we were in the CCC together about 10 years ago! We had a great time catching up, and the kids loved playing together! I only hope that it doesnt take 6 years to get together again!

Brandi, Robin, Jessie

Donovan showing Soren a book

Donovan, Bella, Kiera

We even braved Applebees with all 7 kids for lunch

Kiera, Donovan, Braden, and Jack

Ella, gotta love a messy baby!

Ella and Bella trying to escape

so cute! holding hands on the walk back home from picking Jackson up from Kindergarten

they had fun shuffling through the leaves

Braden, Donovan, Jackson, Kiera, and Bella

Premier Jewelry

Following in Jennie's footsteps my Mom has decided to be a Premier Designs Jeweler. She had her training party which Sarah Blair was nice enough to come help her with! It was a huge success for her, and she is now booking more and more parties! I am going host one for her on November 20th, so let me know if you would like to come!

All the beautiful jewelry

Sarah doing the fashion show

The boys were so good to stay in their room while the party was happening that they were allowed to come out and see everyone after the presentation. The loved helping Sarah take everything down!

Donovan is 4

On Monday Donovan turned 4! I cant believe how big the boys are getting! We waited until Daddy's day off on Wednesday to have presents and cake. Donovan got a new bike, helmet, and pads from Mommy and Daddy, and a new movie, some clothes, and a monster truck toy from Grammy and Papa Bob. He loved them all!

waiting to open presents with a crazy hat on (Bella was sitting on the table ready to help!)

such cuties!

Bella getting in on the crazy hat action

so like his Daddy he requested a chocolate cake with chocolate icing!

the big birthday boy

Haircut!!!

I FINALLY got up enough courage to cut my hair short! It was in such bad shape, and I was very ready to get all of the colored hair off. I am still getting used to it (the girl cut of at least 2 inches more than I wanted!) but it is definetly alot healthier and now all my own color!

Before

After