Sydney's 9th Birthday

Sydney turned 9 this year, she is getting harder to buy for every year. She got spoiled again as usual, she got clothes, Monster High Dolls, Money, an ipod shuffle, carrying case and speaker.  She is growing into a beautiful girl and before long she will be driving and dating!  She likes to be with her friends, dance, ride her bike, and play softball.  She still likes to watch Hannah Montana and Wizards of Waverly Place.

 Sydney wanted an ice cream cake from Cold Stone for her birthday cake so it was easy on mom all I had to do was order and go pick it up, it turned out great!

 Sydney was able to have a birthday party this year (she doesn't get one every year) She invited: Izzy Bone, Sophie Miller, Lilly Petersen, Kenly Davis, and Brooklyn Archibald.  They are all really great friends and good examples, I hope she keeps them as she gets older.

We went over to the Cache Valley fun park and they roller bladded and ate pizza.  They didn't want to come home, it was a great night for all of them.

Chariot Racing

We spent most of our Saturdays at the chariot races in Ogden this winter.  Because we got so much snow the kids were able to play, play, play most of the day at the races, which kept them busy and out of trouble.  Plus they were able to watch our race when it was time. 

 S&L Racing Winter 2012 Jake and Antonio

Christmas 2012

Christmas 2012 came and went with a bang.  I'm not very good at taking pictures becaue I'm so excited to watch them open presentsOur main Christmas from us was our trip to Disneyland, so Santa is the only one the brought presents this year, plus a few from us. 

 All Preston asked for this year was a back hoe, so of course Santa brought it, he loved it and was so excited Santa remembered.

 Santa brought a big family present this year.  A roping dummy and each kid got a rope and some roping gloves.  Preston named him Red Bull Go Bert.

 Grandma Bev gave all the grandkids Dream Lites.  The girls got butterflies and the boys got turtles.

Sydney and Shelby got Dance Factory warm ups from us for Christmas this year.  Shelby had already taken hers off and gotten her pj's on before I could get a picture of her.

Sydney's Christmas Program

Sydney's 3rd Grade class had a Christmas reading program to show us how well they can read. Sydney read with her friend Lilly they read the Very Lazy Ladybug, they both did a great job.

 Sydney and Lilly

Sydney and Lilly

Horse Races and Disneyland

The first part of December we drove to California and went to Los Alimitos to the Horse Races and then hit Disneyland for a few days.  All of Shaun's family went with us. 

We stayed at the Desert Palms Inn & Suites, and loved it.  It had a hot breakfast buffet included that the kids loved (so did Shaun and I).  I like not having to go somewhere else for breakfast and then paying for it just to have the kids not eat it.  This way each of us got what we wanted.  Every morning they had something different for the hot item.  After we ate we went back to the room and got our stuff to head to the park.  It was only a 10 minute walk from our hotel door to the Parks gate, a lot better than having to catch a shuttle.  We will defiantly be staying there again next time we go. Preston asks about once a week when we are going back to Disneyland, hopefully next December!

Preston, Shelby, and Sydney waiting for the horseraces to begin.

Sydney, Shelby, Reggie, & Hudson with Jasmine. (Preston wouldn't get his picture taken with a girl)

The kids with Santa, we had to go all the way to California to see him. :)

The kids waiting in line to go on the Cars ride.  We got fast passes at 9:15 in the morning and didn't ride until almost 8:00 that night, glad we were able to get fast passes, if not we would have had to wait in line for 2 hours to ride it.

Preston had waiting all day to see Lightening McQueen and we finally got there and he was asleep.

It's almost been 6 months since we went and almost weekly Preston asks when are we going back to Disneyland.  I hope they never get tired of it, because I love Disneyland! Our favorite Rides:

Dad: Soaring over California

Mom: California Screaming

Sydney: Californai Screaming

Shelby: Space Mountain

Preston: Cars and Buzz Lightyear

Halloween & Nutcracker

We had a Cowboy, an Indian, and a Daphane for Halloween this year.  The kids got to dress up 4 times through out the week for parties and trick or treating. 

The Saturday after Thanksgiving we take a trip to see Cache Valley Children's Ballet do the performance of The Nutcracker over in Logan.  Preston was old enough to go this year and he actually liked it.  I asked him if he wanted to stay home with Dad next year and he said no, he wanted to go again (even though he is the only boy.)  We went to the princess tea party before and the kids got their picture taken with The Caviler and the Sugar Plum Fairy.   We then headed over to the The Blue Bird and had lunch before heading back to the Eccles Theater to see the ballet.  This year we had 20 of us go, we took up the whole front row of the Mezzanene plus a few extras above us. 

 The Girls with Clara

Preston in his little man suit.

Family Pictures-Fall 2012

Family Pictures-Fall 2012