MERRY CHRISTMAS!
(I'm getting better! Look how fancy!)

Hallie was so cute when she opened this present. She looked up at her sister and said,"Just what I wanted!" Honestly it was just to cute for words. Kamrin is just such a good big sister to her.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

So I haven't been sleeping well, I'm up late. You know doing important stuff on my Blog. Like these next few things that had me laughing so hard I nearly peed my pants. I know it's late, but I still think that in the morning these will be funny. If anyone is mad I am sorry, but there still FUNNY! Guh-Guh, Papa Joe: you guys know I love you!

Our Christmas tree

We have actually had our Christmas tree up since before we went to California. It had clear lights and not very many on it(pre-lit tree) Well I decided I did not like it anymore so we took the lights off. I know it sounds easy... It was not the had clippies holding each thing in place, then zip lines in other places. 5 HOURS later the lights were off. 4 hours later Chris and I went to bed with the bottom of our tree covered in lights. A whole other day later it is done. We now have 4,700 lights on our tree ond over 1000 feet of wire running through our tree. I decided to find out how much a tree like that would have cost. The closest comparison was a 12 ft tree(ours is 7-7 1/2 ft) with over 3000 light for a whopping 6,999 on sale for 3,999. So I wouldnt have bought that. Granted I did not look through all of the tree sites, but after 5 or 6 this is what I could find. Hopefully we don't start a fire:( A picture did not capture the essence of all the lights so here is some video, Kamrin thought it looked better in the dark

Disneyland I love it here!

Christmas at Disneyland (or just December) is so much fun and is really just beautiful. Disney doesnt go halfway on anything.(Except maybe their sequel movies) This is in the reindeer roundup. Santa is in here and his reindeer which were really cute.

This is a crazy picture but Hallie was not crying!! That is a first in her little life of Santa pictures.

See. Cute huh

More Christmas fun

These guys were so cute with Hallie. Fling her fairy around, and comparing hair color. She felt so special, and had the biggest smile.

I swear that I will never tell a child Tinkerbell will be flying over the fireworks again. She did not and poor little Skylee's heart was broken. I felt awful. I later found out Koda had told her he didn't believe in fairies and she thought that was why she didn't come.. Look how excited she is. They all had braids in and Tink kept telling them they were like her friend Fawn who has a braid

Hallie's hair is often commented on. How could it not be? But in this case Fawn's hair is also a red color so Tink told her that. Really the characters are fun. I know I know Scott and Kelley. (I really hate waiting in line for characters) but my girls really did love it

Look how quick and easy this character picture was:) We even got one of pooh bear. NO LINE!! can you believe it?

Kamrin and Tymber. Look how intent Tymber is.
Hallie and her Daddy. The only time I got to ride with her was when I took her to a kid ride while Chris and Kamrin went on the good ones. (ERR my back! No good rides for me!)

Tymber, a little less intent on smashing

Kellye and Tyme

Again Hallie and her Dad. What a daddys girl! I was actually happy I didn't have to ride this one. Hee Hee

Kamrin really has a beautiful smile. For some reason she doesnt think her teeth look good since she got her adult ones. So she does this closed mouth thing. Still she is beautiful.

This would have been nice up with the Tinkerbell ones.(I am not a master at blogging) This is Fawn the red haired braided friend of Tink. She also talked about Hallies hair which is why she is holding it in the picture.

This is in California Adventure. It's a Brother Bear play area. There are rope climbing area, rock climbing, and tire swing along with a lot of other things. It's pretty fun and gives kids a chance to just run.

The white rabbits door. Hallie has this new smile where she sucks her lips under and all you see is teeth, so I told her to smile with her lips. Well she did:)

Alex this picture is for you. Hallie is so afraid of Hook (ALEX) but I think we got it worked out this trip.

Oh the story about this Pinocchio. Tyme reached around and unzipped this poor girls outfit, lifted up the shirt and poked her in her "buttocks" (his word. He is 4) Now look at the hands. How does she do the zipper up? Poor Poor Pinocchio. If your wondering why I'm calling him a girl, It's because my brother in law got a butt shot of the girls thong underwear. And Tyme just laughed about her buttocks. Finally a cast member rescued her and zipped it back up. And Tyme, "I poked Pinnochios buttocks" over and over and over and we just laughed. It was funny but not? We couldnt stop laughing about the buttocks

Twilight

So I went to Twilight with Bri. I really wish we could have seen more of the movie as someone pulled the fire alarm(funny actually when you think of how many angry women and teen girls there were, and only 10 boys. Who could it have been?) which stopped the screen but not the projector, so we missed a few minutes. Also if we could have seen around the giant Spanish Fork heads that would have been awesome. I'm sure Bri and I looked like a couple with our heads cheek to cheek to see through the crack the giant heads made. Otherwise it was a good movie. Of course it's not exactly the book but it was entertaining, I'm excited for the next one and if a movie leaves you wanting to see the next I think thats a success. And ha ha to everyone who didnt think they would even break their budget! Last count 70 mil opening weekend I think thats what James Bond did. So HA

Tinee

Just in case anyone was curious as to how big my 5 month old dog is:) This is Hallies nightgown
Isn't she so cute!! Aside from chewing up my plant and Kamrins really expensive shoes, She is a really good sweet dog. I love her!

Dakota's birthday

Happy Birthday Koda!! I can not believe he is 9!

So remember when I said I love Disneyland?

Sorry this is sideways but I was too close. If you watch near the end she almost gives her booty a slap, normally she would but she got nervous

We spent a lot of time getting autographs as there were hardly lines. The girls loved it.

Oh Hallie. This is her new smile. Her entire top lip disappears. She would not go into the bugslife movie so instead we took pictures in front of all the statues. Then rode the caterpillar 5 times in a row. Four of the times we didn't even get off.

Alice and the Mad Hatter. I recently found out that my friend Melissa was actually accepted at Disneyland to play Alice(apparently they are particular and its quite a process) I have to say she would still make a better Alice than this girl did.

Goofy

Hallie got a caterpillar painted and Kamrin a Fairy. These guys make a killing!!

Hallie and Papa Joe watching the parade

Kamrin and Katie got called up on stage to help out it was really cute. Then they gave them a picture that was drawn by someone(I'm hoping it was actually a Disney artist)

Kamrin and Katie in bumper cars

Sean and Scott. Sean was a proper driver and wouldn't take his eyes off the road for a picture

The character breakfast. We were all a little dissapointed with this. Not very many characters. So If you ever want to go, make your reservations at the one in Disneyland not the California Grand Hotel

Hallie, Katie and Wall-e

I'm not so awesome with the pictures all in a row yet or this would be up a few:) Hallie and Papa Joe

The girls and my fav. TIGGER

Hallie, Kamrin and Katie went to play with the band in California Adventure. Hallie lasted about 30 seconds then dropped her instrument and ran to me for a hug:) I love the I'm shy hug

Toads wild ride. Katie actually looks like she is riding it and having so much fun. If Hallie were to drive a car at this age that is still probably what Katies face would look like. She loves to have fun. Kelley we need to watch out for this exact thing. I know you can see both of them at 15 taking a car:)

Halloween

Okay here are some Halloween pictures I got. This is Skylee as Jasmin and Dakota as a very frightening dead pirate
Tyme is Yoda, Kenya is a lamb watch for the picture of her tail and I think Tymber was a storm trooper?? No I have not seen all of the Star Wars movies

Trooper and Yoda fighting. Boys.

Kamrin wanted to be Dorothy from the wizard of oz, but all the costumes I could find looked like Whore-athy instead so she was a convict cutie, and Hallie was a lady bug

Koda and Sky without there masked faces

Heres the bumb. Isn't it so cute!!

Here's the group of them. Wrandi I didn't see your kids at all so have no pictures at all. Not happy as you make the best costumes. Look for Tanner as Jack close to the first of my blog

Heres Kenya. She should have dressed as a vampire. Check out the fangs

She is really too cute for words. She was eating Chili and I couldn't catch a smile. But look at those cheeks

This is at the ward trunk or treat, with Melissa, Grace, Claire, Hallie and Kamrin