Aedyn sandwich!

Nina and Brian making an Aedyn sandwich on New Years!

Holiday Happenings!

Connor meeting Aunt Soone
Connor Chillin's with Grandma.
Angela in her new hat!
Aedyn opening gifts at the mountains! He got a Bounce and Spin pony!
The view through the town of Running Springs!
Our family waiting in anticipation for Christmas to start!
Aedyn riding on his new tricycle!
Aedyn opening his basketball hoop!
Aedyn and Brayden enjoying a Christmas snack together!

Ok so I am behind on posting for the holidays. We had a lovely time at Mom and Dad's and the rest of the Moore Clan on Christmas day. As our family is extended, opening gifts (because the tradition is to open one at a time) becomes longer, and an all day event! I believe we started at 10:30 and finished by 5pm.
The next day I would not want to repeat ever, at least not until 7:30 pm when we finally got to Dad and Helen's house in the mountains. It took us 6 hours!!!!! It had just snowed on Christmas Day and all the "flatlanders", as Dad calls the people who come us to gawk at the snow, made the drive a nightmare. By the time we got there it was dark and both boys were screaming but Shane got us there safely.
Finally when we got there we had a nice time, opening gifts, spending time with family, talking, laughing! Then we got in the car the next late afternoon to go home, and it took us 1 hour to get through town to get to the highway (it normally takes about 10-15 minutes if that). All the people who came up for day to see the snow were leaving to go home so there was traffic again, so we opted to return to the mountain house and wait it out for another 3-4 hours until traffic died down. We finally left a 9 pm and pulled into the driveway at 11pm. Lesson learned!
Shane took New Year's week off as well so we were able to relax, go to D-land, and just enjoy our boys! Aedyn had the greatest time at D-land, he ran around Big Thunder Ranch and saw Santa, but not up close, and then he made himself at home on the Mark Twain by running around. He would look out to the water and scream "Duck" whenever he saw one. It was hilarious!
New Year's eve Nina and Brian came over, we played games, watched movies, ate junk food, and just enjoyed each other's company!

Overall the holidays were great, and the boys got spolied!

Resolutions!

Need I say that one of my resolutions is getting healthier! Since I had the baby I lost 20 pounds, but I really need to lose a lot more to get to a healthy BMI percentage. So eating healthier( like I did when I was pregnant) and exercising more are the obvious goals.

Other resolutions
1) being a better and more compassionate listener to my husband.
2) being a more understanding and open communicator with family
3) commit to creating more opportunities for my sons to get one on one time with extended family members
4) attend church more often so that we can help our children know God, and have a religious base.
5) scrapbook and keep up with our growing boys and family events
6) be a more patient, kind, and loving person to those I share my daily life with and also to those that are complete strangers.
7) Be the best Mommy and Wife I can possibly be!

Boyz in the Hoods

Happy New Year!

Everyone have a fun and safe New Year!
May 2009 bring everyone peace, love, and joy!

Merry Christmas!

I know I am a day late but didn't have time the day before to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! Yesterday was a long but very fun and festive day with the Moore's. We were planning on going up the mountains to my Dad's house this morning but we are still waiting to hear if chains are required( because of a snow storm yesterday )to get to his house. If so then our plans will be spoiled:(

Southern California had a white Christmas, go figure! Will post more later, trying to get a few more winks in before Aedyn is up for the day!

An early Christmas celebration

Matching Pj's, even the dogs were dressed to the 9's.
The mousepad Shane received.
Special mickey gloves in our stocking
"I'll have my people call your people!" haha!


Today we celebrated an early Christmas with Mom, Kat, Jon, and Heather (Jon's sis) because they were all heading up to Salinas to see Kat's in-laws for the holidays. We had a nice brunch of apple streusel cake and breakfast casserole and mimosa. We then opened gifts. My favorite was of course our matching Pj's that Mom made. It's a tradition that I love. The boys then woke up from their naps and we opened their gifts too! Aedyn's favorite was the Mickey Mouse play cell phone from Grammy. Instead of doing specific gifts for each other we chose to do a gift exchange. I think everyone's favorite was from Kat and Jon, a personalized mousepad and mug. Shane ended up with this gift which is perfect because the mousepad will replace the one from last year I made for him. We then had some traditional fixin's of ham, scalloped potatoes, and green beans for lunch. The day ended with reading a short reader's theatre play of the story of Christmas that Kat wrote. It was a perfect day of holiday cheer and yuletide glee!

Ho!Ho!Ho!

We bit the bullet and visited Santa. I am proud to say we joined the league of parents who have gone through the rite of passage of the screaming toddler on Santa's lap. If you notice Aedyn looks scared to death, his eyes are wide open and a little red because the second before he was screaming and crying. We did not anticipate him being so frightened, he clung onto Shane when we were trying to put Aedyn in Santa's lap. On the other hand Connor smiled as soon as we put him in Santa's arm, he must of been pooping! haha! We just couldn't miss this opportunity.

My Christmas Wish

Aedyn kissing Connor


The other evening Shane and I were watching a Christmas movie called Blizzard, a surprisingly enjoyable movie where the key moral centered around the beauty of friendship. The movie really touched my heart and made me realize my Christmas wish this year.

My wish is for our boys, Aedyn and Connor, not only to be wonderful brothers to each other, but to cherish each other and be life long friends.

Moore's 2nd Annual Cookie Day - December 7th

The fruits of our labor, piles of cookies, YUM!
The grand master of Cookie day! Mom made us all aprons to wear for our special day, each couple had matching pictures on the front. They were so much fun!
Nina and Brian oohing and ahhing over Connor in their fancy smancy aprons.
Jen and Jason making Snickerdoodles!
Shane turning out some awesome Hawaiians, aloha!
Dad and Kaitlyn working on the Pitzelles!
Charity and Willow figuring out the butter cookie machine!