Going back a bit….Hanukkah was on Thanksgiving. So Thanksgiving my parents came over and we made a turkey and potato latkes. Bret made his first brine turkey that was delicious. The kiddos got Skylanders Swap Force for the Wii U and some Lego sets.
The kiddos are now red belts in Tae Kwon Do. We are so proud of them. Unfortunately the day of testing the three of us were up the night before throwing up. They were able to test a few days later at the end of class.
The kids had a little holiday party before the break began:
We are on Christmas break right now. We have had a fun break but it is going by way too fast. Our first Monday off we had a bake cookie play date. The girls all helped bake the cookies while the boys played and ate them. It was a great way to start our break. With me babysitting Shelby it is hard to fit in play dates. It was just the four of us for Christmas which was nice. I tried to make a nice Christmas Eve Dinner and the kids made cookies for Santa. It was a good thing I made dinner that night because we lost power from about 2:00AM until 5:30PM on Christmas Day. We opened one present Christmas Eve. Surprisingly the kids didn’t wake up at the crack of dawn. Their favorite gift was the Ipod. The kiddos were so patient as they couldn’t play with the Ipods until the power went back on. Poor Justin…here is a video game but sorry you can’t play it! They have really loved being to play their own music whenever they want. Justin definitely loves playing music wherever he goes, outside, in his room, etc. The kiddos were in their rooms listening to music building their new Lego sets! For Christmas they also got Zelfs, Orbeez, some boxing battle set, kaotics (crazy stunt car track thing), furblings, new clock radios to play music and charge ipods, roller blades, etc. It was a fun Christmas morning watching them open all their gifts etc. On Christmas Day we went to the park and just hung out-the kids did lots of roller blading. Justin at first wasn’t to into it but now he really likes it. When the electricity came back on the kids screamed and were on electronics as fast as they could. We did little things this break, like go look at Xmas lights in Tustin, dinner w/friends, Balboa to roller blade, dinner, and lights, and play dates here and at the park. Here are some pics from the break:
We took the kiddos to Balboa and Newport Beach and made a day out of it. We took the jeep, Kate with windows out etc. It was a bit cold but fun. I cuddled in the back of Kate with Justin under a blanket to try and stay warm. We took the ferry over then the kiddos roller bladed on the boardwalk. The kids played on the beach on the play structure-they were so climby. We ate dinner down there then headed to play some games and Nikki wanted to do the jumpy thing. After all this fun we went to look at some Christmas lights. Since it was a little bit after Christmas some of the usual houses weren’t lit up. It was a fun little day.
