Holiday Fun!

Well, it looks like I was way over due to update our blog!We had a wonderful and crazy busy Christmas season.I first want to say that we really enjoyed getting to see all the siblings,in-laws,cousins,and grandparents.We are truly blessed to have such a wonderful big family!I created a slide show above of some of the fun activities we did.Unfortunately,I didn't get pictures of every event. Here is a list of some of the highlights of our holiday. - On December 7Th, David got promoted to engineer.This was very exciting for all of us.He has worked long and hard to achieve this position.It was also very sweet because Samantha got to pin her daddy with his new badge.Dominic will get to do captain, in the future. -Samantha had her Christmas party at her school, where the kids sang 3 songs for the parents and presented us with jeweled candle holders, that they made us. -Samantha also had her Christmas dance recital.It was very cute, she did well with the tap dance part especially because it was to the song "Rodolph the red nose reindeer", her favorite Christmas song. -We were in the Christmas parade with the fire department, it is called "Santa and sirens".We have done this the past 2 years now and it is so much fun.The fire dept, picks 3 neighborhoods and each night they do a parade through one of the neighborhoods.People come and park along the parade route, and usually the big firetruck, ambulance,and a antique fire engine carring Santa,will go with their lights and sirens through the neighborhood.People can also donate toys to us which we give to Santa.Sam just LOVES this event, because she gets to run up to the people on the sidewalks and houses and give them candy canes.Dominic also had a blast rolling in his stroller eating the candy canes! -We had Davids Christmas party with his work, it was at the Pavilions in Elk Grove Park.The kids had a blast because there was tons of goodies and Santa showed up on a fire engine.He calls each child up and hands them a wrap toy.(Parents sneak these to Santa) -We had several nights of hot chocolate and driving around looking at Christmas lights.This is my kids favorite thing to do(David and I enjoy it too).It was really cute this year, I bought a Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas CD (I grew up with it back in the day,remember "I want a hula hoop"), anyways Sam was and still is ADDICTED to it!Even buddy was belting out the songs especially the part "hula hoop".It was just too cute to see them so in to it, but also we had to resort to buying headsets for them in the car so we don't have to listen to it anymore. -We had 5 Christmas events with family.It was wonderful to see everyone and enjoy their company.Also, all the yummy goodies. -David had to work on Christmas,New Years eve and Day, it was a bummer that he had to work on Christmas especially.A nice guy at his work worked a little extra so David could have Christmas morning with us and see what Santa brought. -In January we celebrated Davids 35Th Birthday.It was pretty simple since he had to work on his actual B-day.I made spicy beef enchiladas for him followed by a homemade cake. -Yesterday, we took the kids up to the snow for the first time.We all had a blast, we went to Yuba Gap.The only bad thing was it was really icy, so we couldn't have a snowball fight but we did get some sled runs in.The kids were brave for being their first times.They would just hop on the sleds with us and away we would go.Sam would go by herself and just couldn't get enough of it. So, as you can tell we had a busy holiday, but we enjoyed all of it!This month has also been pretty hectic too.I have my sister,Davids,Dominics, and best friend Kim's birthday all this month.I am also in the process of getting Sam squared away for kindergarten(can you believe it), and also we signed her up for T-Ball.She is pretty excited about it, some of her school friends will be on her team and our neighbor is going to be her coach.It was funny, last week I took her & Dominic to this family fitness day @ Wackford ( David was their working at the event).Where the kids get to do fun little activities and one of the activities was throw a football in the hole.First try she did it!The people working this activity where the T-ball coaches, when they saw her do that, they were like "Wow, she needs to play T-ball, she has a great throw", they start to recruit her.Anyways, I hope she likes it, if anything it will be good exercise.Stay tuned, I will post Buddy's 2ND birthday party, it is this Saturday.Also, below is a video from Samanthas Christmas recital, if you listen closely you can her buddy saying his favorite word"choo choo".