Christmas Eve + Christmas Day.

We attended the annual Zobrist Christmas Eve Party at Richard and Angie's. Its always a great time! The girls played and played. We had a delicious dinner, sang some songs and waited for Santa. Santa finally came and the kids were so excited! Santa and Mrs. Claus told a story and then all the kids got to sit on Santa's lap.





After the party we headed to Mimi and Papa's house and opened out Christmas pj's. We got comfy enjoyed the night and then went to sleep.



The girls woke up at around 7:30am and we headed downstairs to see if Santa had come. And in fact he did, and he brought a sled full of gifts! Thanks Santa!!



Hope you had a Merry Christmas! We sure did!

Happy Birthday... to me!

My day:

- My friends surprised me with breakfast at Hash House. {i seriously have the. best. friends. ever.} They also gave me a homemade snow globe with a ton of gift cards! Thanks ladies, you are all awesome!



- Daniel gave me my 1st gift... a {legit} iPhone. No more hacking ones for me!

- My parents and {brother} kevin came to town to help me celebrate. We went bowling and had lunch at {one of my favorite restaurants} BJ's.




- Went home and took a nap uninterrupted... thanks to my awesome husband for watching our two.



- Dinner with the Dye family at Canyon Gate and cake, ice creams and more presents at Mimi and Papa's house.



I seriously had such a great day! I love birthdays!
Thanks to all who made it so special!

Meeting Santa 2011.

The girls saw Santa 3 times this year! We saw him at the mall, he came to our house one night and then at the annual Zobrist Christmas Eve Party.
Kate would talk his ear off every time. She was so excited and didn't want him to forget anything on her list. Lucy was a little hesitant, but warmed up most of the time because she saw how comfortable Kate was.
Kate did ask a couple time why he was wearing different outfits and why sometimes his beard was longer... Well, what did we say? He has different outfits for different occasions/days, just like you and i... and about the beard, we must have seen it right after he got it cut.




I love the magic of Christmas.
We believe!

Flashback :: Christmas Program.

Kate had a little preschool Christmas program.
It was the cutest thing ever.
I may have gotten a little teary eyed thinking of how big she is getting and that next school year she will be in Kindergarten.
Anyway, Ms. Jamie does such a good job with these kids.
And the kids just adore her!

Flashback :: Thanksgiving 2011

We hosted Thanksgiving at our house this year. Although it was not as elaborate as last year, it was great. We cheated and ordered everything from honey baked ham. My whole family was here {except mom, she was in Bolivia} including my Aunt Linda, who came all the way from NY. It was so much fun to have everyone here.
Unfortunately i did not take ANY photos. {I was a little out of it since i had just had gum surgery.}
However, we did dress the kiddos up and took them to the desert for a quick photo shoot.
And here's what we got.
But we'll have to update the Pierce cousin photo shortly with baby Dye arrival in 3.5 weeks.

Drive.

Last year {as in 2010} for Christmas i got Daniel a 'ride a Ferrari' experience out at the Las Vegas Speedway. He redeemed it just short of the year mark {in dec 2011}. And he loved it!



Got to take this red beauty around the race track about 7 times. I'm sure he will be back there to test drive some of their other exotic rides. {i must say it was a pretty good gift on my part}.

Flashback :: Hot Air Balloon Festival.

There was a {mini} Hot Air Balloon festival right by our house. It was great, for like a week we saw over 10+ balloons daily! The girls were in heaven. We took the girls to watch them launch a couple times and to the balloon glow at night, which was fantastic. Can't wait til next year!

Flashback :: Halloween 2011

Playing Catch-up.
Seems like this happens way too often.
I still have photos from 2010 Halloween that never made it to the blog... maybe one day?

Anyway...
Our halloween {day} was filled with dressing up {of course} and parties.

-Kate had a party at school...




- And by night was the annual Zobrist Halloween Party, which included a cupcake walk, minute to win it games and trick or treating.