Christmas Eve 2007

Today we took a ride down to the beach and spent a nice afternoon there. We ate at Ruby Diner on the Balboa pier, and the girls spent a lot of time looking for shells, playing in the sand, and dipping their feet in the frigid water. We love the beach!

Richard Nixon Museum

Today my mom, the girls and I went to the Richard Nixon Museum. They had a huge train display there that we wanted to see, and I had never been there before and had always wanted to go. Gracie brought along "Doodles" the Kindergarten dog. She gets to keep the dog for the entire Christmas vacation and has to take pictures and journal about her time with the pooch. I enjoyed looking at everything and learned a lot about the Nixon era.

Sisterly Love

They are so sweet!

Christmas Day 2007

The girls woke up on Christmas Day, excited as ever! Grace was still feeling under the weather, but she tried really hard to forget about it and enjoy the day. Santa visited our house and left the girls lots of great gifts, including a new flat screen TV and a new DVD player for our front room!

The girls checked out all of the stuff in their stockings, then opened the gifts from us to them. After that, we had our delicious breakfast of Cinnabons and coffee/orange juice. Yum! After breakfast, we all lounged around in our jammies, and the girls spent some time playing outside.








In the evening, the girls got all dressed up again and we went over to Brian and Tammie's house. We had a good time relaxing, eating, and watching the kids play.
This Christmas was fantastic and we are very grateful for our many wonderful blessings!

Christmas Eve 2007

Christmas Eve came so quickly, especially since the first day of the girls' vacation was Dec. 22! Unfortunately, Gracie came down with some sort of flu, having a fever and feeling quite miserable. She was a trooper and still wanted to get all dressed up in her Christmas dress that her Nana bought for her.


We went over to Carey's Grandma Cathy's house for dinner and LOTS of presents. Most of the time, Grace laid down on Grandma Cathy's bed, poor thing felt so terrible. Sarah and Mia had a lot of fun and all three girls received so many wonderful presents! Santa Mark came by on his usual Christmas Eve visit and gave the girls some goodies. This year, Sarah was suspicious, and later thought it was Grandpa Mark because he was the only person who wasn't in the room when Santa was there. She's always thinking, that girl!

Gracie

She's is so photogenic and I just love these pictures of her!

Kindergarten Party

Today was the girls' last day of school before Christmas vacation. They were early birds today, starting at 8:00am. It was pajama day in Kindergarten today, and the girls were quite excited to wear their new jammies to school. They also had a gift exchange, where they received a new book! They had a lot of fun and are very excited to be on vacation!!

Photo Shoot at the Arboretum

Today we went to the Fullerton Arboretum to do a photo shoot for our Christmas card picture. We brought my mom with us to play professional photographer. Turns out it's pretty hard to get a great picture with everyone looking and smiling at the right time. Here are some of my favorites:

Last Day of Dance Class

Today was the last day of this session of the girls' dance class with Miss Tina. They showed us all of the ballet and tap moves they learned, and did a lot of great posing for my pictures. They were super cute and excited!