The Beach!

Sibling adventures

These are the days of our lives! I often look back to see the two of them holding hands and it just melts my heart! Yes, they fight and get irritated with each other, but they really love each other and it's just so sweet.

Putting her hands out to say Grace before dinner.

Summer pics (that I forgot to post!)

Oooooops.....I totally forgot to post some pictures from summer. Better late than never, right?!
My "love"
Ben is a budding photographer - this was his idea!
A day of picking and washing oranges that are, yummy!
Ben giving Grace a lift

Just precious.

Potty Training!

I. cannot. believe. it. She is 18 months and already we are potty training her! She tells us when she needs to go and is catching on fast. Who knew it could happen this early?! Needless to say, we are so happy. {yay, Emma!}

She's got her reading material, and her bib. What else could she possibly need?!

So Silly!

Emma is our silly one....as you can tell. She does this one a daily basis and think it's so funny. I have to admit, I laugh every time! For some reason, she doesn't like pants on where they should be, but on her head instead. After every nap and every morning....she is pantless. She rips those things off and throws them out of her crib!

This girl is just like her brother - she can never eat enough apples!

Christmas

I am SO behind on my blogging! Last time I blogged, it was Thanksgiving! Anyway, this is how we spent our holidays. We went to Disneyland....A LOT! The kids had so much fun though, so it was totally worth it! Disneyland does some really cool and fun things for Christmas, so we couldn't resist! We went to see Grinchmas at Universal Studios and will probably do that every Christmas we're here. It was awesome! We did lots this Christmas season - my head was ready to spin off, but all in all, it was very productive! We made lots of cookies (and of course had to make Santa some!), made reindeer food, cooked a christmas ham with all the trimmings, got all the presents wrapped and stockings stuffed, and ran around doing all these fun things! It was truly exhausting, but all very much worth it! At Disneyland getting ready to see another parade.....
On the tram
One of my favorite pics of Emma - we took the train around

the park, which is something we had never done before kids!

Decorating the tree we got for only $30!!

The first year Emma has helped put the star on top! Checking out the tree.... Ummm, can you say CUTE??!! At Grinchmas
Our annual letter from "Santa"
Me and Gracie at the entrance of Grinchmas
Opening gifts - I think she gets it!
His big gift from Santa
Christmas at my house

She's a little rocker at heart. I'm not kidding! She loves
Pat Benatar, and just music in general and she sings WHENEVER
possible! The apple didn't fall from the tree! Ben with Uncle Jerry and his cousin, Calyn.