The rest of December 2018

12/26 we stayed in our pj's the entire day and played with all our new toys.  We also started organizing all our craft areas and Carter played with his new science kit...

 oh and the kids and Spencer made a huge fort!

 12/27 we played more with the science snow...

 Dad had to run into work that day so we declared it a fun friends day.  Both Aubrey and Carter invited friends over and to go to Rockin Jump so I invited my best friend titi!! We all went out to lunch at Jantz...

 Then to Rockin jump with the kids friends...

 and you have to have an ice cream treat after jumping like crazy..

 That night we made a fun tunnel for the dogs and played games.

 Friday 12/28 we went up to Manteca and let the kids do some sledding.  We had a blast watching them.  My arm was still pretty sore so the thought of sledding and trying to get back up seemed to much.  Dad and I had fun taking pictures and recording the kids...

After sledding we picked up grandma from Uncle Adam's house and got to have her at our house for a few nights.  Friday night we just relaxed and watched minute to win it.

Saturday we all went out and did some errands and then grandma took us to frozen yogurt...

 That night we did a slime challenge and had grandma guess which person made which slime it was fun!

 She got them all right!!!

Sunday 12/30 we got to grandma to Church with us and then came home and relaxed.

 Spencer is having gun with his new meat cutter and makes all our met look like it's straight from the deli.

 The kids love having their sleep overs...

 12/31 News Eve we just kind of hung out in the day time.  Did our usual gym stuff then that night we got ready to go with friends out to dinner and to the movies.

 We went to dinner with The Chu's and Chambers then to the movies.  All the girls went to Mary Poppins and the boys went to Bumble Bee.

 That night we rang in the new year with treats, hanging with the dogs and playing head bandz.

We look so tired! Lol

Bye 2018 and hello 2019

Christmas 2018

Christmas 2018 was a magical, wonderful day! We are so blessed to be able to make it a very special day for our kids.  As you can imagine our day started early with the excitement and anticipation that Christmas morning always brings....  

  

 How exciting to both have Alexia's in their rooms now!

 Spencer's always spoils me!

 For the kids big gift this year we thought it would be fun to wrap them and then put them in a big box labeled with both of their names so they thought they were getting on big gift from us! It made for a lot of guessing as it sit under the tree but they had know idea that inside that box was two smaller gifts and sure were excited to find out what they were!

 Carter was so excited he feel to the floor.  It was the anki robot that he wanted...

 and Aubrey's face expression was awesome....

 She got her very own chrome book! It was pretty exciting.

After gifts we played and played! Then we got ready for round 2 Christmas with my side of the family.  We love that they let us host because we get to just stay at home with all our toys and we get to show them everything when they get here.  We always have so much fun being with family.  Once they got here we all visited, had some snacks and then went into Christmas gifts.  We picked names again which was lots of fun and such an easier way to shop.  The kids don't pick names so they just get spoiled like crazy from everyone!

A year subscription to slime sent to your front door every month! How awesome is that!!  To say she is excited is an understatement!

 Carter got a year subscription to Science stuff.  I just love that my parents did that this year.  It's the gift that keeps going all year.  The kids are loving it.  Getting mail is now the most exciting thing ever!

 after all the fun unwrapping we had an amazing prime rib dinner made by mostly Spencer! I helped a little.

It's so not like me to not get a picture of the table before we ate! So mad at myself! I did snap this one to remember the plates we used this year..  

 After dinner we played a really fun drawing game...

 and then the mitten unwrapping game...

 and a white elephant game! 

 Then it was time for dessert.  Titi made an amazing Yule Log...

 Family picture time....

Then we said our good byes and good nights.  What an awesome day! Christmas always goes so fast! We feel so blessed and happy to have such an amazing family.