Thanksgiving Day Parade

I'm a little behind at getting this out but Mike, Grandma, Aaron, Connor, my sister, Hillary, and her friend, Matt, all went to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Mike took some great snapshots with his blackberry. Of course, he had to get a picture of Miley Cyrus and David Archuleta. I get a bit peoplephobic just looking at some of the pictures. Aubrey and I were quietly sleeping in our warm beds while they were enjoying the parade. What's your favorite balloon?

Baby Bounty Hunter

Don't even think about messing with a baby bounty hunter and her binkie!

The boys got their wish...

The boys seem to think that Christmas will come when we have snow. I've explained countless times that we have snow during winter time and not necessarily on Christmas. Well, we haven't had any snow this winter so far and I was wondering whether or not we would get some around Christmas. Sure enough, school was cancelled early yesterday morning when there was not even a snowflake in sight and by noon we had several inches on the ground. The funny thing is, as a child I remember wishing to have snow on Christmas day despite growing up in southern California.

schokoladen samstag....mmm....lecher

Last Saturday, we journeyed out to Hershey, PA with some visiting friends. We had a fun time in Chocolate World. We went on a little ride that explains how chocolate is made with singing cows, conveyor belts, candy, and chocolate aroma filling the air. The boys were put to work at Hershey's Kiss Works...well sort. We then went on a tour of the town in a bus/trolley and caught a driveby view of the factory and of the Hershey house. We also saw the giant hershey kisses on top of the lamp posts along Hershey street.

One of the sweetest moments of the day was when Aaron and Connor got their picture taken with Santa. And instead of giving out candy canes, can you guess what the boys got?....chocolate kisses of course. I asked Aaron if he remembered to say thank you and merry christmas to Santa. So he gingerly walked up to Santa and wished him a Merry Christmas and then gave him a big hug. Now this was one of the sweetest Santa's that I've seen in a long time. And his little helper...I would call her Mrs. Claus was touched by Aaron's kind gesture. I guess not too many kids give Santa a big hug and wish him "Merry Christmas!"

There was no line at all to see Santa so the boys got to enjoy a few minutes with him. Aaron was trying to recite his entire wish list as Connor made sure to get his request for a boogie board in.

We're in the spirit...the holiday spirit...

Well, we all are but AARON is especially! He practically decorated the tree entirely by himself. He had his Santa wish list prepared a few weeks ago and insists on posting it right near the christmas tree so Santa won't miss it. Aaron designed the christmas program for the third grade christmas concert this year. We were very proud of his design. He's been singing his very catchy chorus songs around the house. He played a wiseman in the ward christmas program and did a wonderful job. He's definitely added a fun spirit to our home this christmas season.

After Thanksgiving, Grandma treated us to the Radio City Christmas Spectacular this year. We went downtown with Grandma, Aaron and the boys and enjoyed a great show!

Back to blogging...

Yes, Idropped off the blogging planet for a while. Well, it was actually our printer that died and everything came to a stand still. I've wanted to update my template countless times but just seemed to get distracted with other things. So, here's to the new look. Happy holidays!