Jazz game

Avery attended her first NBA game!! ...it was a little loud for her, but she had been asking to go, and finally got to!

gettin' ready for Christmas!

Grand America @ Christmas

We LOVE LOVE the Grand America hotel--especially at Christmas time. They put on an amazing displays of gingerbread houses, decorated windows and beautiful Christmas trees. The presidential suite is filled with hundreds of Teddy Bears--all being donated to The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Avery was excited to bring a bear to donate again this year. Our friend Jenna, my sister Laura and my parents joined us this year.

Santa!!

We got to see Santa @ Pepsi--fun fun!! Wyatt loved him--just didn't want to sit on his lap--he was was crawling like a mad man everywhere!!

Park City weekend :)

Johnny and I were able to have a great (snow-filled!) weekend in Park City to celebrate our 8 year anniversary! (Thanks Mom, Dad and Laura for watching the kiddos...sorry Wyatt puked!)

i don't get tired of this smile :)

Avery's 1st gymnastics meet

It was so fun to watch her show off all she has been learning! She eats, sleeps, breathes gymnastics :) ( it was a "fun meet" for the younger kids to start learning what it is like to compete--they all won! )

chillin in newport

One of my favorite places in the whole wide world...sat by the pool, had ice-cream @ the gorgeous Fashion Island Mall, dinner @ our fave restaurant in So. Cal.--Avila's, smore's with kiddos...love it!!

Avery @ Disneyland

One of Avery's favorite things to do, when we are at Disneyland, is see all the characters. So, here are more pics of her w/ her some of her "friends"! Also, we went through the Sourdough Bread tour @ California Adventure, late one night, and she was the only one who really lasted and enjoyed the whole tour...some of the bakers noticed her through the big glass windows and brought her out a "Mickey bread"... I thought that was so sweet! And, as always, we had to get a picture in the "A" :)

Disneyland, day 2

Wyatt LOVED all the characters! It was so fun to see him light up and giggle each time he saw a character! Big sis led the way and was such a good sport to hold him up for pictures. We also went and ate at House of Blues in Downtown Disney--yum!

beach time!

While Wyatt napped and Johnny had work to do one morning, my Dad and I took Avery to the beach...missin' Cali...

fam dam @ disneyland--day 1

monkey boy :)

Halloween!

Love California on Halloween--it was so warm! At the resort we stayed at in Newport Beach, they put on a great, free event the morning of Halloween. The kids went on a scavenger hunt and played games for prizes. That night, Avery, Wyatt and their cousins got to trick-or-treat in the hills of Newport Beach...amazing... The weather was perfect, the people were inviting and the candy--well, we have TONS!! (I'm not one of those people who gives away all the candy to a dentist or something crazy like that...I eat it...)