I already said I was bad at blogging and taking pictures, and this post proves it. We went to California for 3 weeks (Andrew was there for a week and a half) and I don't have many pictures to show for it. Not even one family Christmas photo with all 3 of us...sad I know! California was awesome and I loved it...so warm! I already miss all my family and friends that live down there, so I'm going back this weekend :). Actually, my sister and her two kids are coming to visit, so I just had to go back down and see them. I haven't seen them since July!
We had an awesome Christmas and missed Jen and her family terribly! My parents moved back to their old neighborhood (actually back on the same street). So right after New Year's we backed up the whole house and moved within a week. It was crazy! Luckily, Simon was a pretty good boy and dealt with all the change fairly well. I think he was loving the warm weather too!
Here are some pictures in no real order
My Parents were nice enough to not only babysit one night, but give us their tickets to the Ducks hockey game (thanks again mom and dad!). It was nice to have a date night.
I miss taking walks along the beach. It was so nice to spend so much time outside. The last week was there, it was almost summer weather. Loved it!
Grandpa found Simon's ticklish spots.
My Christmas pictures are all out of order, and it takes too much time to fix it, so oh well. My sister Jess (well my whole family helped) made these awesome blocks for Simon. Look closely at the colors and details on them...they're great. Thanks Jess!
Simon and Andrew waiting to go downstairs on Christmas morning...and yes we still go down youngest to oldest.
My sister took this pictures while she was babysitting Simon one night so that the rest of us could go see Avatar in 3-D. It was such a good movie and so nice to go see a movie in a theater for a change. Simon is getting so good at sitting.
Andrew having fun with his new flash he got for Christmas.
Christmas morning....Santa brought Simon that train in his stocking...along with A LOT of other awesome gifts. Thanks everyone...Simon got spoiled.
Jules on Christmas morning. And yes, we are all wearing matching "ugly" christmas pajamas.
The whole family...minus Andrew whose taking the picture. (We missed you Jen, Josh, Kambria and Karis).
My grandparents came to visit on Saturday before they left for Hawaii. My other grandparents came on Christmas day as well as my aunt and I'm sorry I don't have any pictures of them :(. My favorite part of going home to CA is getting to see all my friends and family. Oh and I got to visit with all my girlfriends and I have no pictures to show for it. Sorry guys! We need to be better at taking pictures. I have such wonderful friends and I miss them so much.
We went down to the beach often. I don't think there's a better way to spend the day then at the beach with your family and friends.
Grandma and Simon.
My entire family is obsessed with dried mangos from Trader Joe's....Simon is no exception. The kids loves those things and will suck on one until it almost disappears.
Swinging with grandma at the beach.
That's all I have for now. Now I really should be packing not blogging. Yes we are moving AGAIN! Our lease is up on our apt and we didn't want to resign for a whole year again. We would like to get into our own place soon...so we're going to live with family for a couple months while we look. I can't wait until we get settled into a place and aren't moving every year.
