Breakfast with Santa and a visit from Santa Marta!

We love you Santa!

Sunday morning we went and had breakfast with Santa at Souplantation. Who knew they had breakfast and such a yummy one!! The kids loved it and extra added bonus of the best Santa ever being there. He's the same Santa we bring the kids to each year and in the mornings on the weekends he goes to different restaurants. He told a story and went to each table to greet the kids. Oh and the best part is we practically had the entire restaurant to ourselves:)!! After breakfast we had an awesome visit from mommy's friend Marta. She came with TONS of gifts for the kids. Preston's birthday gift was a GIANT bullseye which he hasn't put down since she left and he sleeps with it in his crib...haaa!! She got all the kids adorable clothes, Phia a beautiful dress, and the boys matching sweaters/shirts/jeans. She is so awesome and thoughtful. The kids loved her visit. AND Marta helped mommy with the gift bags for Presto's b-day party...she's the BEST!!!

Presto told Santa "I have a tie on just like Daddy"



"Hey Santa...I've been REAL good!!"



Such a pretty dess:)

Present time...a Woody shirt!!

This probably made his entire birthday/Christmas...he was in Toy Story heaven

And immediately tried to ride it LOL



Bentley kept handing the presents back to Marta!

Phia's turn!

We love Marta!

Come back soon!!!

Presto and Phia silliness around the house

We don't have very many weekend days at home but when we do we love every minute. This past weekend Phia used her Advent wreath as a 'birthday cake" and Phia and Presto sang everyone Happy Birthday. We took turns having it be each of our birthdays...even Nana played along. Then Presto of course played trucks by steamrolling his truck over whoever was sitting on the couch:) 

 

 

trucks trucks trucks...

Presto giving Phia a kiss...a vampire kiss:)

vroooom

"hi Nana...meet my truck!"

And on mommy's legs of course

Happy Birthday time with the Advent wreath

Blowing out the candles

So happy

Love these two!

I love the little creative games they come up with

Our silly Bentley boy!

Since he loves hanging in the garage, playing outside, and taking baths I took a bunch of pictures of our little bear doing all those things this past weekend. Such a happy happy bear!!

He can't get enough of our garage!!

Playin' footsie with mama bear

Giggly bear



Walking bear

And sometimes he's still our crawling bear

Loves the wawa!

He stands near the edge and screams like a monkey like this

Uh oh...very serious bear

He had a little rug burn on his face from falling down in the garage

So fascinated

His lil' moose had is too cute

He loves all the Chrismas decorations

Daddy did an AWESOME job decorating this year!!! We are so proud of our house:)

Vivien's 6th Birthday!

Phia's favorite time...eating cake!

I took Phia to Vivien's birthday party at a skate rink in Valencia. Wasn't sure what to expect since I'm not a fan of being cold but we ended up having a blast!! There are 6-7 different rinks and the one we had for the party had sleds and a giant snow pile for the kids to play with. Phia didn't have gloves(woops) but she didn't seem to mind. She made giant snowballs anyway and loved throwing them at me:) Such a fun idea for a birthday party!!

Little snow bunnies

Happy Birthday Viv!

Cutie patootie

Pure joy

Snowball incoming!!

I love this picture.  Phia's feet itched so bad that she took her boots off to itch them.  What she didn't realize is that they were actually frozen.  She had an itch attack!!

Around the house!

Presto sharing his love of trucks and blocks with Bentley

Bentley is a new kid now that he's walking! He loves joining in the backyard fun with his siblings and one of his favorite hangouts is the garage:) He loves exploring all the riding toys out there and his favorite thing at the moment is climbing in and out of Phia's pink jeep. He's quite the explorer and will get into anything we let him:) Presto is talking up a story and is obsessed with trucks and Toy Story. He still calls Woody "lelo" and will ask to watch it first before anything else. Presto still enjoys his sleep time and all he needs is "bunky" and he's set! Phia still is not a fan of sleep but she's gotten MUCH better. Her teacher told us she was the only child in her class out of 18 to answer "what school do you go to?" correctly. Pretty much shocked BT and I ...we assumed most kids knew? I guess other kids answered "preschool" or "church school" rather than "St. Peter Claver". You will never meet a more girly girl. It's a battle to get her into any kind of pants...we compromise with leggings(even in the rain!!) Our house is full, and loud, and (at times) chaotic, and we love it!!

"I know it's in here somewhere"

Look how happy he is to be walking around in the backyard!

Leyla put "Gangham Style" on and the kids went NUTS

Yes this is them dancing...look at Presto's arms ha!

And Phia got REALY into it

Daddy's influence

Peek-a-boo

Presto's dream! Trucks upon trucks upon trucks!

Our lil' Phee...so sylish.  It was raining...this is her winter attire.

Hanging in the garage...his other favorite place

Look at all his teefies

The faces of children with ice-cream.  We went to sushi with the P's for mama's b-day and of course we all had to get ice-cream after

All 3 walking through the mall...Bentley's soooo happy to be freeeeee to roam

And he took full advantage walking the opposite direction most of the time

An attempt in front of the Christmas tree;)