Mom and dad came to visit!
Mom stayed with us for a couple of days and then we met dad at Hard Rock Cafe at Universal Studios. They came to California to celebrate their anniversary and we're lucky we got to join in the fun.
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| Shelby and Cameron cared most about the escalator rides. So many huge escalators, so little time. |
Cameron's preschool Christmas party was super cute. There was a special guest.
We all had a chance to make gingerbread houses this year. Fun!
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| Heather, Tom, and Emmett - at a gingerbread house contest (we didn't win!) |
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| Cameron - at First Five |
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| Shelby - at school |
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| Dig in! |
A neighborhood near us goes all out at Christmas time and we visited these streets three times. The favorite is a house that has "snow". Shelby and Cameron couldn't get enough.
We went to Mt. Baldy to try the tubing park. Everyone kept joking about how small it is and how little snow is there. It's true! There was enough snow for snowball fights, snowmen, and snow angels and the tubing park was just fine. I'm glad we could deliver on our promise to find California snow this year.
Christmas morning finally came!
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| Tom asked for a computer game and I didn't know how to make the download-only gift exciting. So I wrapped the computer! |
We broke in the hiking backpack on a family hike in Newbury Park and I loved spending time with these amazing people.
We had tons of fun ringing in the new year. We met friends at Cafe Rio in the evening and saw some Christmas lights. Then we had a party at our house for (east coast) new year complete with hats and headbands, balloons, confetti, and fizzy wizzy juice. Add to that the roaring fire Tom built and s'mores and it was perfect.
It was a great holiday season. Happy 2016!
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