Our weekend away....

Spencer's company Christmas party was on Saturday December 8th in Fresno so we decided to make a weekend away out of it.

Friday December 7th we drove the kids and dogs up to Sonora so my parents could baby sit them all for us.

That night we decided to stay at Black Oak since it's right there and we didn't have to drive far in the dark.  We had a nice prime rib buffet at the casino and had a nice night snuggling and watching Christmas movies in our hotel room. 

 Saturday December 8th we woke up and had a nice long work out.  We had the whole workout room to ourselves..

 Then we packed up and headed to Fresno.  We stopped and did some Christmas shopping on the way and lunch.  We stayed at the Double Tree in Fresno which was super nice.  It was fun getting all dressed up...

The party was at the Roger Rockets again.  It's a really fun dinner and show place.  The show was Foot Loose which wasn't that great but the food was amazing!

 It's always so fun meeting and seeing all Spencer's coworkers.  Since he is now the branch manager in Merced he is very important so I felt so honored to be the one holding his hand.

 Sunday December 9th we did a little more Christmas shopping and then went and got the kids.

They had a great weekend too.  Friday night poor nana fell and broke her wrist! She was champ though and didn't let it rain on her parade.  They had so much fun making cookies with papa which turned out more like flying saucers.

Then on Saturday they went to a play and out to dinner...

 Being funny...

Sunday they went to Columbia for lots of fun stuff...

 When we came home Frosty was up to no good!.... 

 It was a really fun weekend and made us realize we need to do more weekends away just the two of us!

First week of December

Tuesday December 4th Aubrey's science fair project was due....

We have been working on it since Thanksgiving break.  Aubrey thought it would be fun to see what fruits would mold first so she decided on 6 different fruits strawberry, orange, banana, apple, blue berry and grapes and we observed them for 2 weeks.  It was a fun project.  Her and I loved working on the poster board.  It came out super cool and she was really proud of it!

That night Aubrey had a young women/activity day girls Christmas party.

 Frosty was already up to some crazy stuff around our house...

 The elf's at school were busy too...

 Lunch date with my guy! 

 I helped Mrs. Carter with Carter's 3rd grade Christmas play so I was at the school pretty much 3-4 days a week helping.

Fun rainy puddle jumping walk...

 Working on our Christmas cards...

 Thursday December 6th is the day the Elf fills your shoes if you leave them out so the kids were excited to see what they got

 That night was my annual Ornament party.  It was a good turn out about 15 ladies.  Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures while the event was going on but I did a couple pre ones..

First weekend in December

Well technically the the last day of November and the first weekend in December.

Friday November 30th the kids and I went to Hobby Lobby and they picked out their ornaments...

 That night we had our annual couples white elephant party.  We decided to make it a couples date night at Strings and then hosted the dessert and party at our house after.

 We had such a fun group!! Both sets of Callisters, Chu's, Harrison's, Chamber's, Smith's and us.

We did the fun package game...

 ate dessert...

 a couple Christmas trivia games...

 and the white elephant exchange.....

 It was a blast! Lots of laughs and fun!!

Saturday December 1st I took the kids to a little craft fair in town and then we went home and waited for our guest!

 We were so excited to have Davey, Kiana, and Roman visit us from Utah for the weekend.

Saturday afternoon we hung out and did crafts and then went out to dinner and to Roman's first movie, the Grinch.

 Sunday morning we woke up early to make monkey bread before church..

 Then we went to church and came home and a relaxing afternoon playing with Roman, games, family walk and of course some video game time...

Spencer made us a really nice tri tip dinner that night..

 Monday 12/3 we kept the kids home from school to go a day trip down to the Fresno zoo.

 We had a great time at the zoo and then we went to Cheese Cake Factory for dinner and to the mall.

Tuesday they left.  We had a nice visit with them and can't wait to see them again hopefully soon.