Christmas at Grandma and Granpa's

While we were in CA, we celebrated Christmas with the family (a couple days before Christmas). Dylan loves Toy Story, and he was super excited to get lots of Toy Story toys.

Blake scored some fun toys....all sized appropriately for getting back home on an airplane.

Uncle Rob was trying to tell Dylan all about the cool toy Hummer that he got. How did Dylan respond? He growled at him.

In heaven with all his toys.

Apparently Seth and Kaleb love red vines.

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles

Before we went to the CA Science Center, we went to the Natural History Museum of LA. We saw some amazing gems.

But the boys were a little more excited about the dinosaurs.

Dylan loved roaring like the animals.

California Science Center

After seeing the space shuttle, we went and checked out inside. The kids loved the kitchen.

They also enjoyed the vegetable garden outside.


 Then we all tried to lift up the Tundra.

Space Shuttle Endeavour

Sept. 21, 2012 Blake, Dylan and I were at Disneyland and it just happened to be the day that the Space Shuttle Endeavor was making its flight over Disneyland (and other SoCal spots) on its last flight. It then landed at LAX and then made its way to the California Science Center.



 

While we were out in CA, we made a visit to the Science Center with Grandma and Grandpa.

They had a model of the mission control room with footage from its last launch.

They thought it was pretty cool.

Dylan has an obsession with Buzz Lightyear, so anything space related is that much cooler to this little boy. He was disappointed that we didn't find Buzz anywhere.

Preschool Gingerbread House

I have serious catching up to do on this blog, so these are a bit old. Last month, Blake made this fun gingerbread house at preschool.


It lasted the car ride home before Dylan and Blake ate it.

Horse Park

As mentioned before, we went to California a couple weeks ago for my brother's wedding. We got to Grandma and Grandpa's house, ate some food, and went to the park to get out some energy.


We were able to go to the Horse Park (as they call it because there are horse stables next to the park).


There are several things that make CA and TX different, but some things that we miss a lot about CA are the great weather and the great parks. I guess if you can spend nearly every day of the year outside because the weather is fantastic, then why not have fantastic parks..and a lot of them. I must say, our Treehouse Park here in Texas is pretty awesome. I just wish there were more awesome parks close by.

Home Depot

We went to Home Depot again last weekend and made these calendars.

Silly Kids

Dylan is dramatic at times and very expressive. This is his typical pouting face.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Bla

 

 

 



Would you be afraid of this kid in a football game?

Decorating for the Wedding

The night before the wedding, Aaron watched the boys so I could go help decorate. Aaron probably had the easier deal. We did not have enough ladders, so we used a table, which required some stretching and dangerous moves.

We finished it.

James and Shannon even helped.

Here are some of the finished decorations.

Cute idea to have popcorn huh? Big hit with the kids.

Blake's favorite part was the cake.