Riding the Train

Emma just hopped up on her train all by herself and sat there drinking her bottle. She has never done this all alone so I thought it was cute. It looks like she is waiting for someone to push her around.

The Happiest Place On Earth

On our way to Disneyland!

Disneyland! I think this is so true. We just got back from two fun filled days at Disneyland. We left at 5:00am on Wed. morning to get there in time for the gates to open. It's about a 5 hour drive from our house. It was the most perfect beautiful day to spend there with the temperatures about 78 degrees during the day. Michael's mom and dad came with us. It was nice to have some help, especially if we wanted to go on a big ride. As I said, Wednesday was beautiful and Thursday started out that way. We had been watching the news and knew that a big storm was headed our way. Sure enough, around 1:00pm it started to sprinkle on us. It wasn't too bad for a couple hours but then it started to pour rain. We were prepared with our ponchos but after about an hour in the rain I knew it was time to go back to the hotel. We stayed in a hotel within walking distance to the park so Michael's dad and I walked the kids back. Michael and his mom stayed and got in a few more rides. We didn't want to go back to the park in the rain so we all went over to the mall and walked around that evening. When we got back to the hotel it was about 20 minutes until the park closed so Michael and I left the kids with their grandparents and ran, I mean RAN, over to get one more ride on Space Mountain.

Even with the rain it was a great trip full of memories created. Ellie's favorite rides were Dumbo and Pirates. She kept asking if she could ride on Dumbo. Emma was able to go on every ride too and she was so observant, looking around at everything. They were both real good. We managed to get a majority of the rides we went on taped so we made a DVD when we got home. I'm sure this will be Ellie's new favorite movie.

Little Dilbert Days

It's so beautiful here is the Southwest this time of year. It's been especially nice lately with the 70 degree weather. Sometimes I do miss the snow sometimes but when you walk outside in the middle of winter in tee's and shorts you feel pretty lucky.

We spent Saturday at our town's Little Dilbert Day Rodeo. It's mostly for the kids with pony rides, tractor rides, a train ride, bass fishing, mud slinging, a petting zoo, good old BBQ and so much more. The kids really had a good time and us adults enjoyed watching. Ellie got to ride her little pony again. She loves horses and had named them all Lucky. Her favorite show is Calliou and on a particular episode he went to visit a horse named Lucky so that's why. Anyway it was such a beautiful day and so much fun.

Butterflies Everywhere

Thank you Grammy Carol for our Christmas present. This is an elephant game where little butterflies fly up through the trunk of the elephant and you are suppose to catch them with a net. It is really fun. Forgive me for the pictures of Ellie in her undies. She is potty training and doing quite well. I can't seem to keep clothes on her anymore. Good thing we don't live where it is cold.

Happy 2009 & Rocket Day

Ready For Lift Off

Relaxing Sisters

Ellie's Shrek Rocket

Emma Caged Up

I wish everyone out there a Very Happy New Year!! I really look forward to the coming year and all it will have to bring. We had a great 2008 with much to be grateful for. Our New Year's Eve was so very exciting. The kids went to bed at 8:30 and I followed an hour later. We managed to drag ourselves out of bed for our annual Rocket Day at the park. The Murray's started this tradition of shooting off rockets on New Year's Day and have gained quite a following with lots of church people and neighbors joining in on the fun. It was a perfect day with 70 degree weather and no wind. Ellie got to shoot off her rocket decorated with what else, Shrek stickers. We locked Emma in her cage where she was able to roam around. It really wore the kids out running around chasing the rockets as they fell back to the ground. It was a great way to spend the day and start out our new year.

Christmas Dresses

Here are our girls in their cute Christmas dresses. Grandma bought these at K-mart last minute. I wasn't going to get them any this year but I'm glad she did. We are excited about Christmas in a few days. After having our own little Christmas here at home we will travel over to Michael's parents house for the remainder of the day. Michael's Parents, Grandparents and Aunt & Uncle will all be there. Amy is in New York City this year with Angel's family. We wish all of you a Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Christmas Cookies

Ellie and Grandma spent the morning baking and frosting Christmas cookies. This gave mommy and Emma some alone time to go to Wal-Mart and get some shopping done. From what I hear their was quite a big mess when all was done. Ellie enjoyed eating the cookie dough and frosting as you can see from the picture.