Merry Christmas!

We hope that you all had a fantastic Christmas! We are truly blessed for the family that we have. Mark's parents were able to join us for 6 days and Mark was off for all of them except for having to leave Christmas morning at 10am. We were very active...going to Zoo Lights, baking, church and just playing together! Love to you all and Happy New Year!

Bike Race Photos!

We finally had the chance to order the photos from the race in November! Gotta love it! We are going to do 2 more in April and possibly one in Tahoe in June...around the lake!

Quick trip to Chicago

This week the kids and I had set aside some time to visit the Stacy/Ritter/Littau clan in Redding but unfortunately, it didn't work out. So, we decided to take advantage of the light flying loads and head to Chicago to take the kids to play in their first snow with their cousins. it couldn't have been a better trip! They had a blast!!! We made a snowman, a polka dot tree with snowballs, and Andon loved "flying" down the slide and crashing at the bottom!

We were able to go with Mark to the airport when he went to work and then met him at his gate as he was being released from work...it couldn't have worked out better!!!

Mish Mosh Fun

We have been doing great here! In fact tonight, we actually had a fantastic time out to dinner at our favorite pizza place, Nello's. We have not been having the best experiences going to eat...usually a tantrum or a fight over where we are going to all sit (yep, Mark and I are constantly fighting over where to sit...hehehe).


These pics are a little of what's been happening around here...
The kids had their first hot chocolate moustaches...as you can see they had a blast!

Last week we were so excited to deliver 97 shoeboxes filled with gifts and necessities for kids around the world through Operation Christmas Child. My MOPS group got it all together and the kids had so much fun putting them together!

Mark and the kids decorated our train table cover last week as well. Now both Mark and Andon's trains are set up around the Christmas tree. We are gradually getting ready for Christmas...our tree is up but we are going to be working on outdoor lights this week.

Avery is our little ballerina! She had her first "recital" today and I think she was a little shy because Andon and I were there. She'll be continuing lessons in January :-)

More updates to come...