Christmas Morning...........

........was a blast!!!! If you look closely at this photo, you can see that Claire is running so fast that her hair is streaming behind her. The excitement was out of sight.


This is Jack with his Bakugan Battle Pack. No, no spelling error. These creatures are all the rage this season. Jack LOVES them!!!!!

My little Diva with her make-up kit.

There's a story behind the Nerf Gun. I am not sure how I feel about it, but Jack was over the moon about it and has not put it down.

The Christmas MESS!!!!!!!

These Sticky Buns have become a Christmas morning tradition at our house.....Yum!!!!

Merry Christmas Daddy!!!!!! We misss you lots!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Operation "real" Christmas Tree 2008

I told John that I was going to buy a fake Christmas tree this year since he was not going to be here to help us with a real one and .....................he was not ok with that idea!!!!!! So, I enlisted the help of our friends Matt and Melissa to get a "real" Christmas tree. We got all bundled up in our Southern California "winter gear" (shorts and t-shirts) and picked out our tree. The kids had more fun climing than anything else.

Claire wanted to get this cute little tree, but in the end..................

............we ended up with this one. It is a beautiful tree and most of our visitors this year thought it looked so perfect that it must be fake (I promise John, it was not).

Christmas Recital

Claire performed in the Christmas Recital for her dance studio at the beginning of December. And, despite a wardrobe malfunction where the red ribbon halter on her costume broke, she did a great job!



Here they are playing with the tutus from Claire's costumes. Leave it to Jack and Claire to have fun playing dress up with what ever they can get their hands on.