Cyr Christmas

Brian's parents came to our house to celebrate Christmas this year.  Next year they'll be living in Nevada and hopefully we can go there for Christmas (and play in the snow).  We'd love that.  As always, the kids couldn't wait to tear into their presents.

She's doing her best to get into that bag.  Oooh, the excitement.

The kids couldn't wait for Grammy to open hers too.

Gee, I wonder what that is.

I love all of his crazy faces.

Lego's!

"Is this what I think it is?"  Yep, a new bike.  Bigger so her knees no longer his the steering wheel.

Brian's parents gave us such an amazing gift - we can't thank them enough.

Outside playing with their new toys.  Can you believe it ... December and in a short sleeved shirt.

Kyla loves her new Barbie Bike.

We have lift-off!

It was another great Christmas.  Can't wait until next year ...

Santa Came!

Mason helped Santa out by spelling out HERE with some magnetic blocks.  It was cute of him.  Of course, the kids got up at the crack of dawn on Christmas morning but who can blame them.  They woke us up before going out there to see what they got (at least I think they did).

Twas the night before Christmas ...

"This should get him to come, Mom."

And, Christmas morning.  Do you think he's excited? 

Kyla wasn't quite as excited as her brother but was still happy.  Takes her a minute to wake up in the morning (like me).

A pitching machine.

Santa even gave them Angry Birds cookies.  They didn't like them but I sure did.  :-)

Our goof ball.

I love watching them play with all of the toys.  Kyla must have done Rapunzel's hair and make-up ten times that day.

And, Mason sure loved the RC Helicopter.

Opening presents

I didn't take as many pictures of the kids opening their presents this year because I wanted to take it all in ... and just enjoy myself.  Of course, the kids bugged us all day about how much longer it would be until they could open gifts - I remember nagging my parents about that too.

Mason's favorite gifts were his Diary of the Wimpy Kid books (believe it or not) and the 2 Wii games he wanted.

Kyla's favorite gifts were well ... all of them.  I mean that girl got SO excited over each and every one of them.  It was adorable to say the least.  She loved the pink camera and the Rapunzel doll with all of the hair tools.

Yes, we go overboard - each year.  We don't really buy for each other throughout the year though.

Priceless.

These silly Dagadar thingy's Mason wanted.

Rapunzel - isn't she such a cute doll?

Man, he's handsome.

It was another great Christmas.  I am so blessed to have such a wonderful family. 

Christmas in Coalinga

Before going over to Sue's to open our presents, we took a few photos outside in my mom's beautiful backyard.  A few of them turned out really well.

Out-takes.  I love the picture of the kids giggling in the middle one.

My happy family.

Kyla is so cute in this one.  I love it.

My mom and I.  I have very few pictures of us together ... I'm going to work on that.

Chrissy's Zoo

Each time we go to Coalinga, we love going out to Chrissy's to see the animals.  She has tons of alpaca's, a pot-bellied pig, tons of dogs and a bird.  It's always a good time.

One of the baby's with mom.

I just love this picture.  His hairdo is adorable and he was so sweet.

I think Kyla just got photo-bombed!  Mason wasn't into posing with the animals this time.

They all love my mom, probably because she feeds them sometimes.

Kyla's Performance at Barnes and Noble

Kyla's class put on a Christmas performance at our local Barnes and Noble's.  They sang 5 Christmas songs. I couldn't get a great picture because there were 60 sets of parents all crammed into the kids area.  Not sure what they were thinking but it was sure cute.

Kyla, always boy crazy.  She loves this little boy in her class and she sure knows how to pick em'.  He's just about the sweetest.

500th Post

My 500th Blog Post!

Can you believe this is my 500th post?!?  I get busy and behind on my blogging but somehow I always catch it up because it means so much to me.  The kids love looking at it and especially looking at the blog book.  With my memory being so terrible, I don't want to forget anything.  So much fun stuff!