Noah's 3rd Birthday!

We celebrated Noah's 3rd birthday on February 7th at Chuck E. Cheese! We invited a few of Noah's little buddies and they all played lots of games and ate pizza and had yummy cake! He celebrated with his three brothers, Logan, Mason, and Roman, his cousins Sophia and Kian...and his buddies: Levi, Zachary, and Austin Barney, Preston, Tiffany, and Samantha Clark, Natalie and Elizabeth Hodgson. Fun was had by all and Noah got some fun little presents! He is such a darling little three year old!
( I'm sorry it's been so long since I've posted, my blogger account was having problems....or rather I was. I'd forgotten my username and couldn't log on!! Silly me!)

A day at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia CA

A log ride on a rainy day, huh.....doesn't sound very refreshing but they look excited.

Here are the pictures of Logan and Mason at Magic Mountain with Kris and Elisa Bartons kids, Taggart and Ellie. They seemed to get along well and they all had a great time at Magic Mountain, WITHOUT ME!! Oh well, I'll got next time. We did get season passes, they were the same price as regular admission how could we pass it up?

Tagg, Mason, Ellie and Logan posing with Flash and the Green Lantern? I'm not sure since I wasn't there. They seem like super heros to me.... My kids are always making silly faces in pictures. Here they are with some huge random bear....well I guess they're at an amusement park and these kinds of things are all over the place!

We met Jared & Jerusha Hess at Disneyland!

For those of you who are NAPOLEON DYNAMITE fans or NACHO LIBRE fans, you'll appreciate this. While we were at Disneyland our 3rd day, I ran into Jared Hess and his wife Jerusha. They wrote and directed Napoleon and they co-wrote and directed Nacho. I recognized him because I'm a nerd and I watch the Special Features on our DVD's. Aside from his look in the picture, he was really sweet and talked to us for awhile. I think his wife was a little shocked that I knew her name, but I'm just really good with names... Anyway, it was pretty cool! Wow, he's really tall, but also I'm really short!

Our Family Disneyland Vacation!

On our way down to So Cal we stopped at our dear old friends' Kris & Elisa Barton's house in Santa Clarita! They recently moved there from the Seattle area and seem much happier with the beautiful SoCal weather.(however it rained while we were there!) We stayed a couple nights and Dave took Logan and Mason to Magic Mountain with Kris and his kids Tagg and Ellie. Dave's bro Mike drove up for the day and went too. Elisa and I opted out to keep our little ones out of the cold rainy weather. They all had a blast despite the rain! A HUGE thanks goes out to the Bartons for putting us up for two days and for the great hospitality! Our kids had a blast with Tagg, Ellie, Carter and Chloe!
We started our Disney vacation on Monday. We expected rain and were pleasantly surprised by the dry skies and scattered sun. We rode so many rides this day! Buzz's AstroBlasters, Space Mountain, the TeaCups, all the Fantasyland rides, Pirates of the Caribbean,...and many more! It was so carefree, especially knowing we still had two more days.

Tuesday we spent mostly at the California Adventure park. Logan's favorite ride was there: The Twilight Zone Hollywood Tower of Terror. This is truly a one-of-a-kind ride, not your typical free fall ride! Logan rode it 4 times! Mason was satisfied with once! We did Soarin' over California, a Bug's Land, California Screamin', Mulholland Maddness, Mike and Sulley to the Rescue, and a few more. We ended the day at Disneyland. Logan finally got to meet his "best friend" Woodey! He was so excited to see him! Wednesday we took a break and returned to Disneyland Thursday with Grandpa and Uncle Mike! We did ToonTown, Casey Jr, Storybookland, Space Mountain another 5 times!, Star Tours,....and Mason got to fight Darth Maul and become a Jedi Padowan! We got that on video! So Cute!
We had so much fun, it was a great 3 days! We'll try it again in 2 more years!

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Here's Daddy and his cute little baby's. Noah turns 3 February 7th and Roman turns 1 on February 10th! They're getting so big!
Here's Logan and Mason saying, "Shake-n-Bake"! It's a silly handshake thing Dad taught them, it's from the movie Talladega Nights- The Legend of Ricky Bobby.

I just had to take a picture of Noah here. I had my back to him while I was feeding Roman and when I turned around he was just casually eating his sandwich here, laying on his back with his feet up in the air. It was just so like Noah to do something so silly!
I was just thrilled because both of my "picky eaters" were doing a great job eating their lunch! This doesn't happen very often! I don't mind a messy face if it means their tummy is full! Noah had peanut butter and jelly and Roman had oatmeal- 2 packs even! Yahoo!

We had a Very, Merry Christmas!

Dave's brother Mike gave him a Naruto headband like the one Naruto wears in one of Dave's favorite shows. He was hilarious in that headband! He literally wore it all day long! Mike liked it so much he went out and bought his own, but his was from the "other tribe".
The boys got matching Lightning McQueen jammies from Grandma and Grandpa! The were so excited to wear them on Christmas night.

This is the boys in their Christmas jammies that they opened on Christmas eve, they were so cute! They couldn't contain their excitement for Christmas morning. It was hard to get them to bed that night!
This is Christmas morning before they went downstairs to see their presents. They are draped in their new blankies that I made for them that they opened on Christmas eve. Logan got a Pokemon blanket, Mason got a Star Wars blanket, and Noah got a Lightning McQueen & Mater blanket. They also each got a pair of slippers; Noah got Lightning McQueen, Mason got Mater, and Logan got Spongebob. They were very happy with them.

It was so fun having Grandma and Grandpa at our house for Christmas! They came two years ago for Noah's first Christmas and now they were able to be here for Roman's first Christmas! We had a great time together!

Uncle Mike came for Christmas too and the boys were so thrilled! He is so wonderful with the kids! They just adore him! Logan and Mason got Gameboy Micros from Santa and Mike got a little addicted to the Pokemon games that they got for their Micros. He helped them learn how to play and played for them a little too!

On Christmas day, my mom, dad, sister Stephanie and brother-in-law Richard and their two kids Sophia and Kian all came over for Christmas dinner. It was fun to see the cousins playing together and they exchanged presents as well. I unfortunately was busy enough getting the dinner ready that I forgot to take pictures, Darn! It was a great time! We had a lovely dinner, even the kids were good! We had turkey and ham, "Funeral potatoes", green bean bake, raspberry jello, mixed veggies, rolls, fruit salad, and a special slushie drink. After dinner we had some of Lorraine's (Dave's mom) amazing banana cream pie!! It was a great Christmas, we felt very blessed to be able to have spent it surrounded by our loved ones!