Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 30

Our December

This is becoming a tradition with these two cute cousins...The Nutcracker at the T.O Civic Arts Center...Funny thing about this show was it was the same day we moved into our new home...We bought the tix way in advance and had no idea it would land on hte same day for us to move in... We made it though...


Lexi and Bree


American Girl and an Itty Bitty

My mom, Linda and I took these three cute girls to the American Girl Store in Hollywood to pick out their Doll early for Christmas...the only rule was they could play with them until we got to the car, then they had to go back to sleep until Christmas ;) Lily did not want to part with the little Itty Bitty Baby Doll at the store...

Lexi and Maddi


Lexi with Mary

Lily with Baby

We also did a little shopping and had lunch their at the Groves



Los Angeles Temple Lights
with the Miles Family cousins and Uncle Jesse and GF Mariah

Ward Christmas Party



My mom and I were in charge of decorating for Santa at the Ward Party...Linda helped me set everything up the day of...



Kids visiting Santa at the Simi Mall
-Noah says to Santa, "You can buy all the toys at Walmart!"


This year since we were staying at the Miles Home in Simi while waiting for our house to close, I got to decorate two trees...My parents and My In-Laws...It was a lot of fun shopping for new decorations and figuring new ways to decorat trees from all the ideas on Pinterest...
This was at my In-Laws...A candy tree



Moms house a Peppermint Tree...

Christmas Eve...







Dinner with cousins Sofia and Vinny at El Torito and yes we had the tableside guacamole cause we are fancy like that ;)


Christmas Day...




Christmas Night...

LOL


Lexi's Cousins got American Girl Dolls too ;)

Monday, February 21

More from Christmas...

A picture that was forgotten in my Christmas post; Josh opening up his new iPad...which we ALL Love...We were so spoiled by our families this year at Christmas and I hope they all know how much we love and appreciate all they give and do for us and all the support and love they give to us and our children...Our kids love Christmas in Simi and we have so much fun visiting with our way fun families!

X2 @ Magic Mountain

While we were down in Simi at Christmas me and Josh took the boys to Six Flags so we could just go on some big rides...We went on this ride that we, first stood in line 2 hours for and second, as we got closer and closer I kept thinking to myself 'why are soo many people waiting in this line for this ride?'...Along the line they had these billboards for the ride saying things like 'Are you a type X personality?!'...At first I didn't think anything of it since Dalen and Deveon were allowed to ride it. But then I started looking at the billboards more closely and I started to get a little more worried but I had already invested so much time in the line I just let it go...however I tried to get out of it as we got closer after I saw how the ride was set up...It looked so scary as I realized you started out going backwards and sometimes you faced the track and other times you were facing the sky...I don't know it was just SCARY! I can't believe I let Deveon and Dalen ride it...but they absolutley LOVED it! They thought it was funny to see me so scared! I felt like I had no control over myself...it was way crazy...Never going on that again...I think I labeled it a roller coaster on crack! lol...

Dalen and Deveon waiting in line for the crazy ride

The kids had a blast playing with their Simi cousins. Lexi was able to share some sleepovers with her cute cousins Maya and Bree. who are her age...Dalen and Deveon had Kenzie and Bella sleep over at Grandma Miles {where we were staying} and Lexi went over to Maya's to stay. Then another night Lexi had Bree spend the night at Grandma's and Lexi spent the night at Bree's house a couple days later ;) It's great that they are all finally old enough where it's easy to take care of them...I feel like we have all had all these little kids for so long so now that there a little older it's way fun!

Lexi and Bree

Getting ready for book time

The three cute girls on their way to the movies for Grandma Miles birthday! Lexi and Maya are being crazy silly girls...but Bree looks great! ;)


A couple days after Christmasmy SIL April and I took all 11 of our kids to the Ronald Reagan Library a few days after Christmas to see the decorated Christmas Trees...I grew up across the street from this Library and had never once been there to see this magnificent tree trimming thing they do each year...It was beautiful...Every year they do smoething different. This year they decorated trees in each decade of American History. They had all kinds of different ornaments that had to do with that decade of history. It was way cool ;)



The Three Amigos; Noah, Linkin and Diego ;) in front of one of the historically decorated trees, of course the one that had a train...

1980-1989 {The decade of me ;) }

2000-2009 Tree {our present tree}

There were also other beautifull decorated trees around...
My favorite: The Princess Tree

and of course the ever famous replica of the White House

Sunday, January 30

Chirstmas 2010

Our Christmas vacation with our family in Simi Valley
The boys in front of my parents tree...
Christmas Eve
Dalen and Lexi performing 'When Christmas Comes to Town' for my parents

Noah loves his 'Mouse' toys ;)

Grandma Dubois and Lilypie ;)


Dubois Grandkids on Christmas Eve at my brother Kevin's home
{Dalen, Lexi, April, Lily, Noah, Sophia, Vinnie and Deveon}
Lily in her Christmas Jammies...

Christmas Day

Lexi and Lily {with Grandma's kitty} waiting for the cousins to arrive ;)

Noah ;)

Our Family

The Valusek Family

Lexi and Bree opening presents





Deveon and Bella looking for presents
Dalen and Kenzie playing games

My baby boy with his baby blues...

Cute cousin Linkin

...not sure if this will become a tradition or not but the kids really seemed to enjoy the Miles Money Grab courtesy of Uncle Jason ;)