A quick wine country trip...

We do not take advantage of our proximity to wine country nearly enough...we must have a lot of kids or something! We've been to Solvang a few times with the kids and always love heading up there but this time we spent more time in Los Olivos and we fell in love with the area all over again.  We got up there in an hour and 40 minutes...easy peasy! Our first day we met up with some friends and they introduced us to wine and cupcake tasting...say what? The kids loved exploring the field next door and the boys especially loved throwing rocks...yes...they're boys!  We enjoyed many wine tastings and then we all headed off to the castle park for some late afternoon fun.  We've been to this park many times but never seen it this crowded...woah!! Our family is so big that we now get 2 rooms when we stay at hotels and it works perfectly!  The next morning we had an awesome breakfast at the hotel and headed out to and ostrich farm where the kids were able to feed these (odd) animals and run around.  Our next stop was Zaca Mesa Winery for some more wine tasting and then we headed home! Such a fun trip and we decided we're going to do this a lot more often since it's so close.  Thankfully we had amazing tour guides to show us around...can't wait to explore even more the next time!

Christmas Day at Nana and Nonno's!

 Our 3rd and final Christmas celebration was at Nana's house where Santa also visits the kids! They all got amazing gifts from Santa and Nana and Nonno! Bentley shared a "pizza" with Nonno.  Bentley's current favorite thing to do is play restaurant so the pretend pizza is the perfect gift! Phia got a new outfit for her Am. Girl Doll and a beauty chair for her and Preston got a Spiderman DVD player so now he can watch DVD's whenever he wants(uh oh!).  The kids got Nana and Nonno and canvas picture and presented them with it...Nana and Nonno loved it:) Such a blessed Christmas.  We love our family!!

Christmas Morning 2014!

Santa worked overtime this year and built and delivered 3 razor scooters to our oldest 3 kiddies and a shopping cart for Bentley! They spent all Christmas day riding the scooters all over the house!  Auntie Kelly sent 2 huge boxes of presents all the way from New York for us and the kids. Preston loved his fake teeth and Bentley got the coolest cape and mask.  Such a fun morning tearing through presents and spending lots of quality time with all of us together. This was our second Christmas...and we still had one more to go!