Getting Ready for Christmas

Christmas with our friends

For the past few years we've tried to have an annual Christmas gathering. For some reason we all let last year go without planning anything. We were a little bummed after the fact so we startred again this year. Love to hang out with everyone, we missed Rocky & Bret and Christine, John and Joey this year due to the last minute planning. So next year we will think about it sooner. As you can see the kids had fun, Drew maybe a little too much, he couldn't take any more and crashed on the chair. Thanks for hosting Sarah and Jason! Thanks to everyone for a fun night.

Snow Day in Fremont!

Dale hardware in Fremont had a day where they made snow and took a $2.00 donation to go play in the snow.In my mind I imagined a big hill of snow that they could play in. When we arrived there was a huge line to the snow, and then we see this little corner of the parking lot tied off with like 4 inches of snow(or should I say ice) on the ground. The kids wanted to wait for their 30 minutes in the ice. Anyways they had fun and they all had freezing cold hands after the 30 minutes was up. This is snow in Fremont I guess! Although they made an announcement that next year there would be more snow. Can't wait.

Zombie Kid Likes Turtles

The Girls

My friends Tammy and Teri came down to visit from the Sacramento area on Saturday. It was somewhat of a last minute plan, but it worked out that we were all able to get together for a couple of hours and go out to lunch. Tim was the only hubby who was there, he had planned to go to a football game but hung out with us instead. Jason met up with us later. Teri is expecting her first son in March, yeah! We love the children for keeping us young. Although I'm not sure wether it is the children or the husbands,but every time we get together we end up having some pretty big ball fights or nerf ball gun wars, or dodge ball, so this was a pretty tame visit for us. We still feel like we are 19 and MAYBE even act like we are 19 every now and then! Sometimes I wonder if the kids think that they have the coolest parents ever or the craziest parents ever!? Someday I'm sure they'll let us know. We had a great day and loved seeing everyone. Love you all.

Drew's 6th Birthday Party at Kids Castle

Drew wanted so bad to have his party at Kids Castle. It is not my place of choice,but Tim convinced me that it was the right thing to do. So we had a wild party to say the least. The kids loved it. They were all sweaty and they all had dirty feet and or socks by the end of the night. He loved it. We all had card board pizza and yummy cupcakes (they really were yummy they were funfetti) and reminded ourselves that it was all for the love of Drew! Thanks for suffering, Oh I mean thanks for coming everyone! (It wasn't all bad just the little girls dressed like prostitutes and the bad music from the live one man band!)

Drew's 6th Birthday!

Friday night after Thanksgiving was the birthday party for Drew (6) and his cousin Graydon (2). We went Pee Wee golfing and to the Ice Creamery in Castro Valley. The kids had a blast golfing, so did Grandpa, and we froze our buns off and then went for some yummy toasted almond ice cream! Luckily you can't buy that in the stores or I would have a huge problem. Graydon was so funny about his present. The only thing that Sarah told me he would like right now was animals. So of course I was on a hunt for any kind of animals I could get. Target happened to have these cute little back packs with a ton a of animals in them. He was so excited about them, we are still not sure if it was the animals or the back pack he liked more! We had a great time with Grandma and Grandpa and the boys were spoiled rotten! But, as Mary says that is what grandparents are for.