December Days in Cali 2013

Consist of:

Taking and picking Cash up from school - these little monkeys 

 Ivy the little diva!

 Christmas activities - including writing letters to Santa!

 Hard at work - using good form with that pen Ivy!

 Griffin wanted to draw pictures on his!

 Cash wrote his list all by himself!

 3 happy kids!

 Baking lots of holiday treats - our favorites include white chocolate popcorn and Salty Toffee Bark

 Advent days!  Getting ready to open my favorite gift!

 A new nativity set to display in the house!

 What the season is all about!

 Getting dressed up in their Christmas best for pics with Santa and church! (you have no idea how long it took me to put these together and find everything!  And actually I bought a different sweater for G after this!)

 Getting a pic with all 3 looking was impossible this time!

 Our ward Christmas party where a visitor showed up at the end!  Boys were super happy!  Ivy was super excited to see him until we got close - then she wouldn't let Chip go (or his neck) and cried the whole time!

 Our ward Christmas program was so good this year and when they read something at the end and it included dresses is red and white and loves you ---- all the children screamed Santa!  The real reason you see is on the right and the way the program ended by talking about the Savior was very touching.

 This little princess had a little jet lag when we got back and a hard time sleeping in her own bed at times - and so ended up a few times in my bed at 4 or 5 am.  Then she would fall back to sleep around 6:45.

We are having a great December and the only thing is that it is going too fast!