Downtown Disney FUN!!

Since we didn't go into Disney, we took the kids to Downtown Disney to do a little shopping!  Brandon and Tyler were very excited to build a car.  Tyler saw this car four years ago the last time we were at Disney.  He was excited to be able to do this with Brandon too!!

 

 Picking out the pieces to their cars.

Getting ready to start building their car!

Picking out their favorite sounds to go in the car!

Excited to be building his car!!

 

After Brandon was done building his car, Natalie and I head over to Build a Bear so we could build her a bear!!

  

  

Natalie did a great job building her bear!!  Then we dressed her in a Minnie Mouse shirt, and sissy bear is ready to come home with us!!

Goofy's Kitchen

To celebrate Kinley's birthday, and to give my kiddos a taste of Disney without actually going into the parks, we decided to have dinner at Goofy's Kitchen!!  It was a BLAST!!  The line was super long to even check in (even though we had a reservation), and the food was okay, but the kids LOVED it!!

Our whole family!!  LOVE this family picture!!!

Baby girl wasn't too excited about getting near the characters!

  

  

Dale was our FAVORITE!!  He played hide and go seek with B!!

We sang happy birthday to the sweet birthday girl!!

I LOVE my TWIN and love that our babies are so close!!

Beach Time

Sunday morning we got up and decided to drive PCH and take the kids to breakfast and the beach!  This is ONE of the BIG reasons why I miss living in So Cal!!  The beach is so calming, and beautiful!!

We walked out to the pier and had dinner at Ruby's!  It was to be "walking" on the water!!

After breakfast we went down to walk on the beach and walk out to the ocean.  Neither of the kids had ever been to the ocean before!!

Natalie didn't like getting left behind by the boys!!

Of course we had to take pictures!!

They loved this!!  Brandon loved it because he said the water kept sliding us around!! So much fun!!  Can't wait until we can go back to the beach and play some more!!

Kinley's Birthday

We took a surprise trip to Orange County so we could celebrate sweet Kinely's second birthday with her!!  We didn't tell our kids where we were going, and that made it that much more fun!!

We hit the road early Saturday morning to get to Orange County by lunch time!  The kids had NO idea where we were going, not that they really understand any ways.  They know grandma's house, or far away grandma.  :)

Brandon liked playing the bounce house that Nicole rented!!  Natalie on the other hand didn't want anything to do with it!! 

CHEESE!!  While they eat their dessert of course!!  :)

Dinner Dates

During the school year last year Nat would spend every other week during the Fall at my parent's house, and then in the Spring she lived at my parent's house.

There would be some nights when Tyler would have plans, or something he had to do at work, so that left Brandon and I on our own for dinner!

On a few of these nights I would take him some where special for dinner!

His favorite thing out of the salad were the olives, and by the time his dinner came he didn't even want it!!  Keep that in mind if you ever take my little man to Olive Garden!!

Christmas '14

Merry Christmas!  We all love Christmas in July, right?!

We celebrated Christmas this year up at my parent's house again.  It has become our new tradition, and it still kind of feels like Christmas up there!

Santa came, and laid out all of our presents for us so when we woke up in the morning it looked like this!!

Before we could start opening presents we had to finish our nativity calendar!  B was very excited to put baby Jesus in the manger!

We took turns opening our awesome gifts from mommy, daddy, grandma and grandpa!  This was the first year that we did only three gifts, and I think it worked perfectly!  It kept our buying to a minimum, and they still enjoyed everything they got!

Grandma was excited to get B's first book of life!  You wouldn't know that he was already three!  (Ooops!)

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!

B's favorite present were the Mickey and Minnie cars from Aunt Colie, Uncle Jon, and Kinley!!  Love you guys!!