Thank You Santa!!!!!

Wow!! Did Santa ever visit our house? This is our first clue that Santa was here, a Thank you note for the cookies and a smashed Pepsi Can (yes our Santa prefers Pepsi over milk!!)

It was a fun Christmas Morning, both Karden and Whitley actually understood what you were supposed to do and loved every minute of it.They both got more toys than they needed, In the words of my 94 year old little grandma " Santa must of had his eyes closed most of the year Karden if he thought you were this good!" This is the aftermath of toys when we had finished. I should of gotten a picture before hurricanes Karden and whitley blew through the front room!

We hope you all had a Merry Christmas and we are ready to see what 2009 brings!!

Too Much KSL!!

Today Karden and Whitley were fighting over a pink plastic high heel dress up shoe. Whitley had it first and Karden really wanted it. Don't ask me why, We have hundreds of dollars of toys in this house and the toy of choice is one plastic shoe from the dollar store. It wasn't even a pair. ONE SHOE!!
Karden is trying everything to get Whitley to give him the shoe. Bribery, finding other toys for her, even telling her mom will give her candy. Finally Karden has had it. He gathers up most of her dolls, her doll stroller and the closest paper he can find and scribbles something on it and puts it in the corner. When I see what he has done I ask him what the paper says " For sale: All of Whitleys toys because she won't give me the princess shoe!"
This is when you can tell that I buy and sell too much stuff on KSL!

PS- When telling Ryan this story and telling him I was putting in on the blog, he asked me to substitite the shoe for something more manly!! Sorry Honey the story just isn't the same without the shoe!!

HO, HO, HO!!!

What does Santa Claus Say? If you ask most kids the answer is
HO, HO, HO!! Whitley being 2 and not very vocal even knows what Santa says. (Just don't let that big hairy guy get too close, but that is a whole other post.) So anyways if you ask Karden what Santa says he will say. HO, HO, Ho, AND A BOTTLE OF RUM!! Were does this come from I don't have the foggiest but I have a strange feeling Grandpa Norman might be the culprit. So if you see a drunken Santa wandering the streets come Christmas Eve, send him our way.

Zoo Lights!!

The zoo + Christmas Lights= Perfect December activity.
What could be better, we headed up on Saturday night and weren't quite sure what to expect. Ryan went begrudingly, he says no normal person has already been to the zoo 4 times this year. He doesn't exactly get my fascination with the zoo. But It was great even Ryan was pleasantly surprised!!
It was so cute, and the weather was great. It was a little chilly but there was no snow. Most of the animals were off exhibit for the night but the ones you could see were very active. The kids loved all the lights, and throughout the zoo they have animated animal displays.
Karden loved the carousel and again choose to ride the praying Mantis. We are 4 for 4 on riding the praying mantis.

Whitley had other ideas and had a complete meltdown when I tried to put her on the baby hippo. We ended up sitting on the stupid little bench that doesn't move. But oh well!! She really loved the light up elephant grandma and grandpa bought her.
I highly reccommend it, it was a great night and it will become a yearly tradition. Just don't tell Ryan :)

Diabetics Beware!!

Well the Christmas tree is finally up and this years theme is "candy". My mom, sisters and I do a Christmas tree exchange and we each do one themed tree, from tree topper, ornaments to tree skirt and then each year we swap trees. So I have a different tree for 5 years before repeating themes. It is really fun. I got this one from my mom and it is really cute.
Whitley has had a hard time realizing that the candy is fake. She has taken a few bites out of they styrafoam Suckers and Karden had a blast decorating the tree, well actually it was two branches!!!!
Now my next task is to take down the Thanksgiving decorations, I know My house looks a bit strange with a turkey on the front door and christmas lights in the yard. Good think I don't work until Wednesday!!

Come See Us At The Light Parade!!!

Well Ryan has been working hard for hours on end to enter a float in this years light parade. I have to say it looks pretty darn good. This has become a tradition for Ry. He used to make a float for Oil Spout and now has moved on to Making one for his Mortgage Company. This is his 4th year in a row. That is officially how I know it is November because he starts planning out his design. If you have never been to the light parade you are missing out. It is tomorrow ( Friday), the day after Thanksgiving at 7 pm. It goes down Main street from Cal Ranch to the the ends at the city Park. All the floats are lit up and Santa usaully makes and apperance. Its a fun way to start off the Christmas season. It doesn't last very long there are usally around 30 entries. Dress warm and make sure you cheer loud for entry #15. Ps. The Float looks great Ryan, Good job!!

What a Weekend!!

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We have had a fun weekend! Karden had crazy hair day at preschool and thought his hair was so cool- he wanted to keep it like that all day, I had to tell him no and hide the hairspray!! :) We also went to the Gingerbread festival at Thanksgiving point. It was fun and people are so creative! The highlight of the evening for the kids was the cookies that got to decorate and them or course eat!! Saturday we had Whitleys birthday party at Chucke Cheese. It was fun to let all the cousins play together and they all had a great time and left exhausted! That was the plan because the girls left from the parking lot for some christmas shopping. We did so well, had a great time, got good deals and got alot accomplished. I can honestly say my kids are done!! Now hopefully the christmas list doesn't change. It was a fun weekend now I'm paying the price as I'm on my 5th load or laundry today. But oh well!