Christmas books

Christmas books wrapped and ready to be opened one by one! We are on Christmas countdown starting tomorrow.

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Happy 8 months Lucas

We call this his "sexy pose" He does it all the time:) We just laugh because most of the time he has his hand on his booty too:)

This is his "mad" face. He scrunches up his little face and gets all tense

He will go over to the sliding door and just look out the window for a good 10-15 minutes. Not sure why he is so intrigued but I will take it.

I can't believe this little guy is eight months old. If only pregnancy went by this fast:) He is such a great, happy little guy and we love him to pieces.

-He is all over the place- his nickname is "the master of disaster" which holds more true everyday

-He is starting to pull himself up on things. The other day I was filling up his bath water turned around to pick him up only to see he had pulled himself up on the toilet and was trying to play in the water.

-He is all over the house and especially loves to crawl to his sisters room

-He got his two bottom teeth at six months (since I haven't updated in a while)

-He is in 12-18 month clothes, some 18 months

- He is about 24 pounds and 30 inches long

- He is a great sleeper he goes to bed at 6:45 and gets up about 8. He also takes 2- three hour naps

-He is always happy and smiles all the time

-Loves cheerios, baby puff and freeze dried yogurt bites

-He LOVES all the new Christmas decorations that we put up.... especially the tree. And he thinks it's funny when we tell him no

-Babbles all the time. It's either dada or baba

-He is very go with the flow, except when he wants to go to bed at night. Then he is just ready to go to sleep. If we are out and about he is fine but at home no such luck

-Will get up on his legs and his hands- it looks like he is doing yoga

Thankful

One thing I am very thankful for is what a wonderful dad Stewart is. He is so great with our kids and loves to play with them. He also loves to take Ella out climbing or hiking. Last week he took her to the climbing gym. It was her first time and she was a little nervous but by the end she was a pro. When she first climbed up Stewart could tell she was nervous but she kept saying, "girls never give up, I can do it." She would get higher and higher and just say, "I think I can, I think I can." Classic.

Just to see you SMILE.

This brightens my day everyday!

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The Bass pro shop and a visit form my Dad

My Dad came for a few days last week. It was nice to see him and spend some time with him. He hadn't seen the kids for a while and Luke had changed quite a bit since last time they saw each other. Luke loved his glasses and tried his hardest to pull them right off his face.

My kids and trying to get a decent picture. Probably won't happen anytime soon so I won't hold my breath.

Yes, it's true I just posted about Halloween and in the very next post I am putting a picture of santa claus. We went to the bass pro shop because my Dad wanted to take the kids and get their picture with Santa since he probably won't see them over Christmas. Lucky us they have a santa that started the beginning of november. The bass pro shop does free pictures and has an awesome Santa. He is my favorite one we have been to in Vegas. The one at town square is usually sleepy and grumpy and the one at fashion show is kind of a grinch as well. Ella told him exactly what she wanted and Luke just wanted to pull on his beard- it's a good thing it was real.

It is sad, but we have never ventured out to the bass pro shop. It was fun and Ella loved the fish tank and all the animals. She has just learned about bears that week at pre-school and they had lots of stuffed bears (real). She loved it.

They had fun trying on cowboy hats

Halloween

The two chums:)

Apparently Luke likes sitting on millions of "baby" pumpkins

Ella rode this swing like three times. She loved it.

We had a great time at the pumpkin patch. I just love this time of the year. Ella had a great time picking out her baby pumpkin and one for Luke as well.

Luke is just a happy, go lucky guy. He is wonderful and loves to go.

Halloween: We went to the trunk or treat with the Davidson's and then hit up my mom's.Ella was a ballerina and Luke was a sock monkey. Ella got way too much candy and hasn't asked for any of it. She doesn't really care for sweets that much, it is pretty funny. I'm sure soon enough she will appreciate her candy:) Stewart has eaten it all, and I'm happy to report I have even steered clear of it as well.

Here is Luke the sock monkey and Kyle and a gorilla.

The sock monkey and the gnome (nolan)

My adorable ballerina:) We put mascara on her, and lets just say she has the most killer lashes. They seriously look like eyelash extensions. Lucky girl. She was pretty happy to wear make-up.

Huntington Beach

The day after disneyland we headed to the beach. It was pretty cold and I had no plans on getting in. My kids had a different plan and if we would have let them swim they probably would have. We put Luke's feet in and he just wanted to sit in the freezing cold water and splash around. He didn't care one bit. And neither did Ella.

These two loved getting dirty playing in the sand

My adorable little boy

This is what Ella did the entire time. Ran around, chased birds, chased the waves and looked for sea shells

A must with James- playing football

My little cuties loving the beach

Lets' be honest, trying to get a decent picture of two kids doesn't really work

Ella has learned how to do the "fishy" face. She is so excited and does it all the time.

Maybe the highlight of the trip for Ella is when she saw this small ihop sign. Ok, not really but she was excited. A long time ago she was typing on the computer and she asked me what she spelled. I looked, and laughed. I told her she spelled ihop. This is probably one of her favorite words. Ha. So we had to take a picture in front of this sign, of course.

Disneyland

We celebrated Miss Ella's fourth birthday in one of her favorite places..... DISNEYLAND.

Luke likes to bug his sister already:) And Ella hanging with woody at downtown disney.

I love Ella's face in this picture, along with her little wave.

Luke did this most of the time at Disneyland. He was a little trooper and just rode around in his stroller most of the day. He did enjoy, "it's a small world."

Jake, Ella and Adam. These three are darling, love them. Ella loves her cousin's and we were so happy they met up with us for the day and disneyland.

We surprised Ella and took her to lunch with the princesses. The girl was in heaven, she was so excited everytime they sent out a new princess.

I took Luke to change his diaper and while i was gone Ella was pretending she was a princess and told Stewart he could take a picture with her.

Ella was so cute and would hold her dress out like the princesses for pictures. I can't tell you how much she loved them.

Ella's favorite

princess

Grammy with her grankids

How cute is the mr Lukester in the "L"

Crazy James:)

We took our yearly trip to Disneyland with my family. It was a blast as usual. The kids were great the whole time and traveled well. Ella had so much fun at Disneyland. She rode all the rides except space mountain. Which I ended up being happy we didn't take her on. It was all spooky for Halloween. We told a little white lie to get her on splash mountain. We told her it was called, "zip-pity do da." It could have backfired on us but she ended up loving the ride. It was after she told us she liked it we broke it to her that it was actually splash mountain. She has an adventurous side and loved all the rides. We were so happy she was finally tall enough for all the rides. It makes disneyland so fun now that she can go on all the rides with us. She also loves, "Soarin' over California." Jake and Ella were so cute together on it. They just looked at each other and giggle. We had so much fun this year. Thanks to my mom and Trent for a great trip. I love my family and hanging out with them.