Gingerbread Playdate

Sampling the goods

We had a fun "Gingerbread Playdate" after Christmas at our house with Addison's friends Avery, Cian and Cadhla. They decorated a gingerbread house, played with gingerbread playdough and ate yummy gingerbread men. It was a great time! Of course the girls had several princess costume changes throughout the playdate :) We are lucky to have such fun friends!

Christmas and New Years

Sisters

The family

Christmas morning

Happy New Year!

We had a fun Christmas in Texas with family and visiting friends. We were back in San Diego for New Years and spent a quiet evening at home.

Seattle

Cloudy and cool, but no rain!

The Space Needle

All bundled up!

The amazing gingerbread houses!

Pike's Market

At the beginning of December we took a weekend vacation up to Seattle. We had never been there before and had a great time! Seattle is a cool place! It was a jam-packed weekend filled with Pike's Market, The Space Needle, a really cool Science Musuem, several carousels, and other fun places. We ate at some cute restaurants like Flying Squirrel Pizza and Top Pot Doughnuts. Our hotel, the Sheraton, was right downtown and a really great hotel. There was a Gingerbread House display in the lobby that was amazing! It was a fun getaway!

Oh Christmas Tree!

It's one of our favorite times of year to pick out our Christmas tree and decorate it!

Polar Express

Explaining what a Squinky is to Santa :)

Getting a bell from Mrs. Clause

We went with some friends to the Polar Express in December. There were 17 of us and we had a great time!

Yo Gabba Gabba!

We had such a fun time at the Yo Gabba Gabba concert! Addison danced the whole time :)

Birthday parties galore!

Fun times at Scooter's Jungle

Addison and Grammy always have so much fun!

The sweet birthday girls, Avery and Hayden

Addison and her "prince" Aidan

Sleeping Beauty singing a princess song

Face painting

In the first 2 weeks in November, we went to 4 birthday parties! Addison had a great time at each one but mommy and daddy were a bit exhausted after all that partying :) The first weekend, we started out with Addison's sweet friends Avery's and Hayden's princess party. What a surprise when the real Sleeping Beauty showed up to the party! Addy is still talking about it! She read them a story, played games, painted faces and sang a song. The girls were in heaven! After the princess party, we drove up to Aliso Viejo to cousin Tyler's birthday party. It was at Scooter's Jungle, one of those big jumpy places. Wild, but fun!