Morro Bay

On Tuesday we had a wonderful day! We headed 1st to Morro Bay. It was a beautiful day at the coast. We went to the State Park where they have a museum of Natural History. The walkway from the parking lot to the museum was a very pretty walk. Eliza was very nervous about the walkway and when her brothers would look over the edge she would start crying and telling them to come back.





The Morro Bay Museum of Natural History was a blast and VERY kid friendly. It is a hands on museum and my kids had a lot of fun. Eliza liked listening and talking on the Rock Phones. Vincent liked reading all the information cards and trying out some of the experiments. Addison and Nicholas just plain had a great time.





They had a reptile show going on while we were at the museum so we went in. Addison was so excited when they started passing out snakes to hold. This mommy was grateful for a zoom on the camera so she could take pictures from a distance. She just wish she had the camera ready when someone started passing back a horned toad that Addison also wanted to hold so he passed the snake off to grandma. She got rid of it really fast. i am proud of her though. She didn't drop it like this mommy would have done if it was handed to her.

After the show we headed outside to look out over the bay. Eliza liked the binoculers.




There was a hiking trail at the park that took you up a small rock. the little boys enjoyed running up it.


We thought the view from down below was nice. It was even better up on top of the rock.

I even got these two of Addison that I absolutely love!


Down the rock we came.

Heading To Grandma's

The day after Christmas we loaded up and headed to Paso Robles to spend a week. We had Pizza waiting for us when we got there so we enjoyed a pizza lunch, and then we opened presents again from Grandma & Grandpa and Great Grandma & Great Grandpa. Then of course there had to be a wrestling match with Grandma!

Christmas Day

Christmas Eve

For Christmas Eve dinner this year I thought it would be fun to start a fun tradition. John's family use to always get together and have clam chowder. I don't like it at all so unfortunately that was thrown out. John does not particularly like pancakes but I asked him if we could and he was okay with it. I made three different sized circle pancakes and some bacon. They were each given three circles a piece of bacon and some whipped cream and we made snowman pancakes. The kids had a blast! Nicholas didn't want his cut, but also couldn't quite figure out how he was going to eat it. He finally just went in face first. Probably not the best in table manners. I bought another special treat of premade gallon of chocolate milk and egg nog for drinks. John said it was not his favorite meal but he admitted it was fun to watch the kids enjoy the meal so much. Will we keep this tradition? I don't know. It was fun, but I want to find something that all 6 of us will look forward to eating that night.

Rag Curlers

I decided I wanted to try Rag Curls in Eliza's hair for the Sunday before Christmas. Saturday night she had her bath and we put on a movie and she sat in my lap and we put the Rag Curls in. I did snap some picture after I got them in, but didn't get any in the morning after we took them out. Let's just say and I rolled them a little too tight and so when I brushed them out, she had BIG hair. Since it was so tightly curled and sticking up a mile high he did a high pony with ribbons instead of a clip in the front. It still turned out real cute but I think next time I need to remember not to wrap so tight!

Santa at the Ward Christmas Party

They did our Ward Christmas Party at 7pm this year. Kind of late for kids. They did a music, story, and poem fireside in the chapel first and then we went to the cultral hall for cookies and a visit with Santa. Nicholas was there. He just fell asleep during the fireside part.

Vincent's Award Assembly

Vincent got an award for excellence in Reading.