Christmas 2011-part 1

Ok so i know its like a month late but i figure i better talk about it anyways!!

So Christmas this year was really fun having a 2 year old who kind of got it.

Christmas eve we headed up to my house to have dinner and do family gifts
but before we had dinner we thought it would be fun to take Anna ice skating at the Midway ice rink

Anna actually really liked it and didn't fall much!!

Then dinner came and after dinner guess who stopped by Grandma's house

All the grand kids loved seeing santa that night

it was a fun night.. this year Riley and I were in charge of Stocking (my family just trades grand kid gift then does stockings) it was fun getting things for stockings but it just ment nothing was a surprise

After all that it was really nice to go home and sleep in our beds

home sweet home

so now that Riley and I have been married for 2 1/2 years we have only lived in 2 places our first little place over by center street, we only lived there for about 6 months it didn't have a washer or dryer which was really hard with a new baby and it had the smallest closets known to man kind, but the hard wood floors and big garden bath tub were the best part!!

Then we moved into the house we are in now and probably will be for the rest of our lives (yes im ranting) it is really nice it has a big back yard, lots of shade trees, 3 bedrooms and a big kitchen. I do mostly miss the garden bath tub...

But... yes there is a but..

In my next house or if we ever remodel this house (if we buy it) their are a couple requirements!!

First:

I want a front porch and a back porch.. ok lets just say a wrap around porch

Second:

A nice big laundry room with lots of storage and organization.


Third:.. 3 bathrooms

A bathroom for Riley and I

A bathrom for Anna

And a guest Bathroom..

And last but not least:

a Big Bathtub...

NOW IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR.. i don't think so!!

:D

more crafting

Well like most of you I am a pinterest addict!! I boggles my mind that blogger doesn't recognize the word pinterest right??

So I am one of those pinteresters that just pins a bizillion things and never makes anything!!
Well that is about to change, part of my new years goals is to do the things on pinterest more!!

So here is one of the crafts i have done that I loved making

this cutie sits outside of Annas room that way when she walks out of her room its the first thing she sees!!

Isn't it super cute!! I think so!!

:D

cleaning out!!

Anna's room has needed a much needed clean out!!!

So we have gone through all of her toys and clothes and gotten rid of the toys she doesn't play with any more and put away the clothes that are too small! also we have rearranged her room to help keep it clean

First: we put all her toys and books in her closet so that she has to ask to play with them and that way we can put them away at night!

This was such an AWESOME idea!!

Second: we made sure the only things in her room where the essentials such as her bed, dresser, rocking chair and the art easel santa gave her (with the coloring supplies tucked away in the closet)

It make her room now have so much floor space and it is so open now!! I feel like i can breath

But now you may ask what happened to all the stuff we took out of her room!!

Meet our extra bedroom!! it was like this for a couple days and I couldn't handle it so of course it was time to clean this room out!!

much better right!! (don't mind the mess on the floor i was crafting) and now 2 out of the 3 rooms we have are organized. we are saving ours for later!!

:D

a little bit of crafting

Wow i haven't blogged in a long time, I have been pinteresting to much!!

Well Riley and I are planning our next big vacation
can you guess where??

if you guessed Walt Disney World you were correct!!

We aren't planing on going until September 2013 for Anna's 4th birthday
But unlike most families we are a one income household so that means we need to start saving now!!

So i decopodged some sparkling cider jars to help us save! The nice part about these bottles is that you cant put coins in so that mean only "DOLLAR BILLS" yikes!! hopefully we will make our goals for savings! I mean we have 19 months to do it RIGHT??

Well also on the back I wrote out goal of how much we should have in there when in comes time to breaking the bottles

this was a fun craft and we will probably do it for every big thing that we want to save for "if it works"

Well make sure you check back in September of 2013 to see the breaking of the bottles


:D

Day #4- Universal Studios

Monday September 19, 2011

We woke up Monday morning and went to Universal Studios. We left the babies at the hotel with my parents and took Kenzie along with us because she could ride all the rides!!

Well as we got to Universal Studios we instantly went on the Jurassic Park ride (which Kenzie ended up loving).

Then of course we rode the Mummy ride (kenzie couldn't ride this one because she was a little to short)
After that we went down to ride the back stage tour even though I have rode it a ton of times its still pretty fun to see everything again.

We also stopped at the kids water play area where Chad, Jeremy, Mark, Riley and Kenzie thought it would be fun to try and get each other wet!!

One of Rileys favorite things that we did was watch the Water World show, it was a really good show!! :D

Through out the day we road Jurassic Park 3 times and the Mummy 4 or 5 times it was super fun because that park was empty!! :D

Well check back later to hear about the rest of the trip!!

Day #3- Disneyland

Sunday September 18, 2011

We woke up super early to drive from Escondido to Disneyland, it took about an hour which wasn't bad. We couldn't check into our hotel until 4:00 so we parked in disney parking and then headed to Disneyland. (oh i also forgot to mention that David and Jen had baby Charles on the 17th)

Anna was so excited for Disneyland before we even got in because she could see Mickey stuff everywhere!! It was Halloween time at Disneyland so everything was all decked out for Halloween and the Characters were dressed in costume and everything! It was super fun going during Halloween time so Riley and I have decided we are going to have to hit Disneyland now for every season!!

Our first day At Disneyland we tried to hit as many characters as we could.  We made it to Mickeys house and Minnies house, we also saw Sleeping Beauty and Snow White. We tried to get Goofy a ton of time but man that guy is hard to get a picture with!! :D

We rode tons of rides with Anna and she loved them all, her favorite ended up being Buzz!! :D We also watched the Soundsational Parade, it was a really awsome they had all the characters with there movies theme song!! Disney ALWAYS knows how to put on the best parades and costumes!!

Later that night we tried to watch the Fantastmic show that disney does but Anna didn't really like it!!
So we went and walked around the stores and then watched the fireworks. But because its so chaotic after the shows they block things off so us older kids decided we would park Grandma and Grandpa on a bench with the 2 sleeping babies (anna and brandon) While us (Me Riley Jeremy Jaclyn and Mark) went and got on Big Thunder Railroad (my favorite) and Indiana Jones!! Then it was back to the Hotel for the night!!

All the babies were super exhausted by the end of the day that everyone slept really well (well Anna did at least)