Sea World

Back in January we decided to head down to San Diego and visit Sea World. We decided it would be the beginning of Brady's Birthday Celebration! The day was perfect! Nice weather, happy kids, and lots of fun. We really enjoyed ourselves.

We checked out all of the shows. The kids were very entertained through them all. Tessa loved watching the shows and still today randomly yells out "Shamu, Shamu!".









They were both very excited to see Elmo and Zoe and a few of the other Sesame Street crew. Brady was brave enough to actually go and see them and Tessa was just fine waving to them from a distance :) They both got to pick out a toy at the Sesame Street store. Tessa picked Abby Cadabby and Brady got SUPER Grover! They carried them around the rest of the day :)





Here are some pics of the polar bears and penguins.










Sign of a GOOD DAY!!!

New Years 2011

Our New Year's Eve was lots of fun and excitement... we spent the night with all of my family at my sister's house. There were friendly games of basketball in the garage, playing the Michael Jackson and Just Dance games on the Wii, a little drinking, a lot of eating, and a huge dance party. We brought in the New Year with lots of screaming, banging pots, and lots of poppers :) The kids thought it was the best! We all made it until midnight except for Brady... he was too exhausted!

Christmas Celebrations

Here are a few pictures of going to visit Santa with my sister and her family. Tessa loved the idea of Santa but didn't want anything to do with him when the time came. She clawed on to us the minute she got close to him :) But now she talks about Santa all the time... go figure!








Grammy and Grampy also came over and helped Tessa make a Gingergread Christmas Tree. She loved being a big girl who got to mix the frosting and spread it on all of the different pieces. But her most FAVORITE part was eating all of the decorations as she went. 1 for the tree... 2 for Tessa!!! By the end of it all of our sides of the tree were decorated with candies and Tessa's was a little bare... Ha Ha.

Christmas 2010

Ok so my next posts are about 3 months late... but I have an excuse. My hard drive crashed with all of my pictures from the past year on it and I didn't back them up ANYWHERE! BIG MISTAKE! It took a lot of worrying and tears but lucky for me I got my pictures recovered and now I am putting them on this blog so I will have them :)

So it is Christmas 2010 all over again!!! Brady's 1st Christmas was so much fun. The kids enjoyed opening the presents, Santa leaving them surprises, and lots of yummy food to eat. We had a very busy holiday. It started Christmas Eve with Nana and Papa (I didn't make it this year. I ended up getting the flu in that morning :() Then Christmas Day was full of excitement. We started the morning with seeing all of our presents from Santa. The kids got spoiled. They got a new swing set to share and lots of fun toys to play with. We then ventured over to Grammy and Grampy's to be with my family and all of the cousins. We opened lots of presents and ate a yummy breakfast. Then it was back to our house to get ready for Christmas dinner. This year DJ and I had our work cut out for us. We were the chosen ones to host Christmas dinner at our house for all of my extended family. Thanks to a ton of help from my parents everything turned out great. We all were very spoiled and enjoyed a wonderful day with all of our family.

I didn't take too many pictures of this day because my camera was acting up but here are a few.