Tickles

Jake was playing with Annie and making her laugh so hard. I ran and got my camera but he was a little camera shy. The first video has Michael and the second one has Jake. The kids watched these over and over today. They are adorable!

Christmas Disneyland

Living so close to Disneyland (40 miles) we decided we need to try and visit more. We don't need to spend all day there, just a few hours each time is plenty. Who knows where we will be next year, or in 5 or 10 years. We may never get another chance to visit Disneyland. We went today for a couple of hours and it was sooo crowded. I think we were the only Californians there. The other ones were at home waiting for all the visitors to go home. We were still able to enjoy our visit though. We went on 3 rides, saw 3 theme characters, spent $8, and made some more preiceless memories.

Michael playing with the flowers. He really liked these flowers.

Silly Jake

Annie

Anthony

Our friend Karen joined us. The kids just love her to pieces. There was a lot of screaming going on after she left in her car and we left in ours. Anthony's feelings were hurt the most and he cried for 10 minutes.

Anthony, Karen, Jake

Jaileigh was upset because I only had an Elmo diaper for her. She wanted a Mickey Mouse diaper. I was trying to console her.

You can see the elaborate Christmas decorations that they have up

The teacups. They stopped the ride twice for us because Anthony wouldn't sit down correctly. I thought for sure they would ask us not to come back. All the kids wanted to go a second time so I made Mike go on the second round. hehe

My little Jaileigh bug with her crazy hair. She keeps pulling her bows out. I don't know what I am going to do with her. She is so opinionated already.

Somehow we stumbled upon Snow White and her wicked Stepmother. It was so lucky. We found a quiet little alcove on the side of the castle and all of a sudden the appeared. We were the first in line to get pictures.

Jaileigh, Mike, Michael, SnowWhite, Stepmother, Jake, and Karen

The quads discovered toys and the gift shop.

I bought them $2 suckers to distract them from the $20 toys.

Jake, Jaileigh, and Michael

(Anthony was sleeping in the stroller)

Jake loved his sucker. He even fell asleep eating it in the car. I had to pry it out of his hands.

Michael wasn't too interested in his sucker. It was handed back to me within a few seconds of this picture being taken.

Same with Jaileigh. She's not a big candy lover.

Jaileigh and Jakob made me put Anthony's sucker next to him while he slept. When he woke up he had a nice little surprise.

As we were leaving we spotted Mickey Mouse. There wasn't a line so we ran over and got our picture taken. The kids loved him. They weren't afraid of him at all. They have been talking about the Mouse for weeks now and this just made their day.

Jaileigh saying good bye

Karen bravely carried two sucker covered kiddos. I hope her sweater was washable because she surely did not escape unsuckered.

Bye Bye

Grandma and Grandpa and Rori snuck off in the wee hours of the morning. They left a book that had grandmas voice recorded on it. The babies loved it.

Jake reading the story

Michael

Jaileigh was upset that Grandma wouldn't come out of the book, she even cried.

Happy Anndalyn

Sweet Anthony

Kisses, Big Sloppy Kisses

Annie LOOOVVVEEESSS Rori! Her eyes light up when she sees her and she follows her all over. I was able to capture her communicating this to Rori.

Kissy kissy

big old wet one

Soooo big!

Christmas

Christmas morning was so exciting. The kids slept in and then when they did get up we waited upstairs until we were all ready. The missionaries came over to witness the kids opening gifts. It was chaos! They opened everything even if it wasn't theirs. We ate Amish Breakfast Casserole for breakfast, weeded the yard, played, and just enjoyed each other. It was so nice to have gram and gramps and Rori there. It was a perfect day.

Rori and Jaileigh looking over a few gifts.

Cheese

Mikey Jake and Jaileigh each opening a present from Grandma

Group photo

Anthony and Jake working together

Jaileigh opening a gift

Rori and Annie

Jake

Rori opening her gifts. You can see how excited she is.

Michael

Jaileigh with her crazy bed head and Annie.

Anthony

Annie loved Grandpa. They spent a lot of time bonding.

Michael in Jaileighs new pack n play for her baby.

One of the favorite toys was the dyson.

Anthony, Jaileigh, Michael, and Rori

Jakey on his quad.

Grandma helping Anthony steer. 

Crazy Jai on her quad

Michaels quad was still charging so he was a little upset.

Annie with Rori and of course she had to be accessorized.

One of Annie's two gifts she got for Christmas. She got a little cheated. Good thing she doesn't care.

Michael

He is actually standing on his quad while driving it.

Jake

Mikey and Grandpa

Michael standing and Jai is going with the old school toys.

Jake dragging around the Dyson

Sorry mom but I love this picture. The quads got underwear in their stockings and Jai had to put every single pair (8) on over her PJ's. We weeded the yard after eating breakfast. It was fun.

Rori and Mike weeding

Putting together the new table. Grandpa had plenty of help.

Hanging out at the end of the day. AAAHHhhhh so much fun!

 

Thanks for coming and we love and miss you!!!