It's still Christmas at our house!

Emerald has learned how to work the cd player and now she plays Jingle Bells during the day. She is just in love with Santa and cannot wait till he comes again. She catches Charlie when he is in trouble and tells him, "Santa won't be very nice for you Charlay!" (We like to call him "char-lay") :)
Here are some pictures from Christmas time. We stayed home in SUNNY, WARM California (yes, I enjoy rubbing it in because I really enjoy it here). Whenever we would ask Emerald what she wanted for Christmas, she would simply reply, "A unicorn." I thought she was just being silly and so we went gift shopping and got her some preschool games, play-doh and some dress up clothes. And a few days before Christmas, she kept asking if Santa would bring her a unicorn.....So Jake and I headed back to Toys R Us and got her a big unicorn. And what do ya know, that is the only present she really cared for on Christmas morning. Charlie got a big dinosaur to go along with Emerald's unicorn. :)


Charlie's favorite part of the holidays was eating all the fudge. Thanks Mama for sending us some! Charlie ate it all!! :)

These are basically the only two pictures I have of Christmas...I mean, there is more...but they are still on my phone and I'm too lazy to upload them at the moment. So more pictures will be posted in the near future of Christmas from 2010. :)

Catching Up

Back in September or October or maybe it was in August....? Anyway, we went up north to San Fran with Jacob as he attended meetings at the NASA facilities there. It was cold and green and gorgeous! It was nice to get a break from all this desert we live in and be around trees and plant life! We strolled around the Piers and went to the aquarium there.

It was a blast and Emerald and Charlie loved the cool fish life.

Give 'Em the Bird!

Here we have Jacob giving the bird. We cooked our first turkey for Thanksgiving (yes, this post is a tad late....). We stayed home in California for the holidays. It wasn't nearly as fun not having lots of family around, but I refuse to go back to the dreadful cold and snow in Utah. So I suggest that family members that would like to see us for Turkey day or Christmas come to California for a visit! ;) It took FOREVER to cook that dang bird and then by the time it was ready to eat, we weren't hungry for turkey! So we had a few bites of the bird and then the usual food items (stuffing, mashed potatoes, yams, pies). Next year we decided to have a catered Turkey day meal from Claim Jumper (really yummy restaurant). :)

Also around Thanksgiving time, we got a brand new fridge!! The kids were so excited when the Lowe's guys came and delivered it. Charlie turned 2 in November and although I can't find any pictures of his birthday party, we had a great time and he was excited to get new cars and space rocket sheets to go on his big boy bed.