More holiday festivities and pictures from out and about...

This has been an awesome 2 weeks with Daddy home.  Olivia had her first ride on the swings at 7 months old, mommy took Preston and Phia to see Little Mermaid on Ice, we spent the evening at the Ventura Pier eating dinner, riding carnival rides, and watching fireworks. Mommy and Daddy spent a night with friends in Santa Barbara, we had lots of family dinners and even managed to do some end of the year "Spring cleaning"!! We also took many trips to see the Christmas lights around town.  Preston and Phia named one house "Santa's Workshop" so we made a few trips there to see what Santa was up to:) Olivia is oh so close to crawling and she's sleeping through the night like a champ and waking up at 9 or 10am...wohoo!!! We watched the snow show at the mall with our neighbors, had a family pizza night, drank too much hot cocoa, and mama took Presto to see a miniature train set up at our local candy shop.  I think we definitely made the most of our holiday season...sad it 's over but so so happy for the New Year!

                     Our lil stud muffin:)

                                                    BENTLEY BEING SILLY..

                                                      LITTLE MERMAID ON ICE!

                                                                 VENTURA PIER

                       
                                     Around the house and Olivia perfecting her rocking(pre-crawling)

                            What happens when my brother dresses me up...

                                                Loving her new high chair!

My FIRST SWING RIDE!

                                    These brothers are all clean and hair brushed after the bath:)

 Mommy volunteered in Presto's class during their Christmas parties so I was able to see all the fun!!!

             Olivia was the perfect age this Christmas...sitting up so we could see her cutie patooty face:)

           Preston was so mesmerized by this train display and it was interactive so they let him get involved and stack logs, sort coal, and honk the train horns.  Made his day:)

                                  "Snack" was counting down the sleeps 'til Christmas for us

Pretty much the sweetest little baby on the planet...how did we get so lucky??!!!

Family pizza making night!

Time for some Gingerbread house making(and eating lots candy!)

LA Zoo and New Years Eve...

 Happy New Year!!! We had our annual NYE block party and as usual the kids had a blast.  We all bring food/desserts/drinks and the kids run around and play on the block.  We so love our neighborhood and all the friends we've made!! We also made a trip to the LA Zoo with the Auntie Kelly, Jack and Emma.  The kids loved all the zoo "treats" and riding the carousel so much that we barely saw animals but had so much fun still:)

Our 2013 Christmas Card

Christmas Present for Grandma/Grandpa/Nana/Nonno

This year we had these made and framed for the grandparents this year.  We thought it was so sweet and they ended up being a huge hit:)

Advent Program

This year was Preston's first year in the school Advent Program and he was so proud to sing his song "Soon and Very Soon".  I thought it was such a weird title but the song is too cute...the next line is "we are going to see the Lord" and with his little 4 year old voice it's just too too cute.  Room 1 always wears jammies in the performance so he was decked out in his polar bear jams:) This was a huge year for Phia bc not only was she an angel but she was also chosen as a narrator in play and she was the FIRST one to narrate(SCARY!!).  Of course she learned her part 2 days after she received it and delivered it perfectly...our little perfectionist.  Hearing her little voice resonate on the microphone gave us all chills. We're so proud of her confidence and the pride she took in her role.  Sophia's class sang "Happy Birthday Jesus"...makes mama cry every time!! We look forward to this each year and this year did not disappoint:) After the performance we went and checked out some Christmas lights with the P's...we made lots of Christmas light trips this year...the kids never get sick of seeing lights(and neither do we).