Christmas Break

Christmas break was awesome, fun, great and wonderful but way too short!! Christmas on a Wednesday this year was a bit strange and kind of cut the week in half but we were grateful to have the Friday before Christmas week and the Monday after New Years off too.  Spencer took the week of Christmas off and it was perfect! We love having him home.  We played, played and played.  Carter loves driving his new truck in the empty lots across from us.  

Oh no is this a glimpse into the future?!?

 I'm happy it's all learning games! They both love playing on their "oPods."

Friday December 27th my family came down to Merced and we all went to the Dinosaur museum in Madera.  It was really cool.  The kids just loved all the hands on activities, especially the dig area.  

 The whole family got into it and we found all the fossils.

 Since Titi's birthday is New Years day we decided to celebrate that day and went to the Spaghetti Factory for dinner.

Here is us enjoying eating out another evening that week.  I think we must have eaten out every day on vacation it was great!  (It made it hard for me to get back into the swing of cooking again!)  Thanks Gaga for the gift card!

 Titi came and stayed with us December 30th and 31st.  We had a nice morning at the zoo.  We always love when she visits us!

 New Years Eve night we had plans to go to our friends house for dinner and a party but our poor friends daughter got sick so we had to reschedule.  We did a mini party at home and played WiiU, watched movies, had cream puffs and apple cider.

 I love ringing in the new year with these cuties!!

New Years day we took down all the Christmas decorations :( and organized we manged to sneak out and play at the park and have a yummy sushi lunch that day too.  

January 2nd the kids and I went up to Sonora for a few nights.  We went on a big hike with Papa, played a lot, went shopping, went to music time with Nana and ate lots of good food.  It was tons of fun.  I didn't have the camera with me for everything but I did have it at this cute diner were we had lunch.

 Carter's new favorite thing is mustard?!?! Or as he calls it yellow stuff.  Every day for lunch he just wants bread and yellow stuff.  I always sneak a piece of turkey on there too :)

 After our mini vacation we were back to playing at home.

Great 2.5 weeks! Now back to reality! We hope you all had a great break.  

We are excited about 2014 and the fun things ahead of us! 

Happy New Year