Christmas Eve 2014

We kicked off Christmas Eve at church

We entertained ourselves while Matt made a fabulous dinner:).

This bottle kept us busy for a while...

After dinner the kids wrote letter to Santa and put our cookies and milk.

We snuggled around while Matt read "Twas the Night Before Christmas, a famly tradition

Getting ready for the big day!

Christmas Break with the Martins Part 1

We kept very busy while the Martins were in town a took full advantage of our time together.   

Abby and I made a few bowls with her new Pottery wheel.  

We made time for lots of snuggles

We visited Christmas Card Lane where I grew up in PQ.  The kids loved all the lights and we all enjoyed walking around.

Mar and I took the kids to see Big Hero 6.  Super cute movie!

The guys went to the Holiday Bowl.

Even more snuggles.

Played with lots of legos and puzzles

We walked Miramar Lake with my mom one afternoon.  

Wine Country with Grandpa & Grandma Martin

Grandma & Grandpa Martin came to spend Christmas with us for the first time!  We had a blast and started off with a trip to wine country in Temecula.  We had a nice picnic and played some bocce ball

Our little bear cubs love to wrestle...everywhere

Enjoying quality time with G & G.

Almost a nice family picture.  You win this time Abby...

Relaxing and enjoying the beautiful view and company.

Discovery Isle Winter Concert

Zack's preschool class put on a show for the parents.  They learned a few songs and acnes and were pretty cute on stage!

Quite a cute group of 4 year olds!

Love this kid!

Shane and Zack.

Letter to Santa

Zack has a deep love for turtles and although he doesn't love writing when he has to copy letters in school (surprise!), he does if he has a good reason to.  He found a book about turtles and on his own accord began copying the turtle's names to write a letter to Santa.  Seriously, melts my mommy and educator heart all at once!  

 He worked so hard on this for 2 days and then he was finally ready to address his envelope and send it to Santa.

 Abby got a nice art set for her birthday and had fun painting the scenery outside too.