Christmas Eve, Day & Night

The best days start out unplanned, don't they? On Christmas Eve Chris said let's go down to the Hotel Del and sit on the beach. This (almost) never happens so I got dressed as quick as I could and threw the girls into their dresses and myself into a ...cheetah print shirt...and off we went!Lucky to live in SD, look at this weather! It was in the upper 60's, low 70's all weekend.












Dad and Kendall on the beach.


Later we went to Grandma's house for Christmas Eve dinner. She made some veggie stuffed shells just for us, thank you!



I wish I had more pics of the evening but with 3 little kids and 1 big kid (plus the rest of us!) it was a lot of chaos. Suffice to say presents were open and food was eaten! Most importantly, time was spent with our favorite people (and animal). Merry Christmas (eve)!

Random Holiday Bits and Pieces...

A few fun things this holiday season so far...

The Poway Santa train! Can you believe they have THE train and you actually get to watch Santa and Mrs. Claus ride in to town??



We had lots of fun times with friends...

...and family.

And a wonderful Holiday concert by the Dingeman 5th grade, including the star of the show (as far as I am concerned),...
...this handsome boy in red.
We have so much to be thankful for this year!

Dj Bran-Man!

Brandon's school is doing a program called Biz-Town where the students get real life training in things like applying and interviewing for a job. Brandon dressed up real nice for his interview. His choices for places of employment were: 1) Channel 93.3 as a DJ or 2) Jack in the Box. Let's hope he gets his first choice!

Or maybe he'll be a used car salesman...

Visiting Santa...

...and if you know Kendall at all you know that she couldn't be peeled off Daddy to go sit on his lap. Even for a candy cane. But we have a sweet picture of Ms. Kaylee. And we got to ride the train, so the whole trip was totally worth it!

Happy Birthday, to the best Grandma (and Mom) ever!

Mom/Grandma: you are awesome and we are truly thankful to have you in our lives. We had so much fun celebrating you!

Christmas Tree time!

...to be continued.