Snow on Saddleback!

I took Max out of school yesterday for a snow day. These are pictures of Saddleback mountain right by our house. Although it wasn't a ton of snow it sure made Max happy. He ate the snow, we had a snow ball fight, and got the car all muddy on our way up the canyon. It was Audrey's first time seeing snow----in California!!! It's still pretty cold today so the snow might stay for another day or two. We might just have a white Christmas after all!

So we went to Sears to get some nice Christmas pictures of Max and Audrey. Our appointment was at 3pm but we didn't leave until 6pm!!! We waited around forever and got the worst service ever! I guess that's what you get for wanted to spend only $50 on pictures. Audrey was a wonderful baby and took great pictures. max on the other hand we had to bribe with chicken nuggets from McDonalds if he was good and just smiled. Who knew that babies are easy and stubborn 3 year olds are the hard ones. I guess that's when they start developing an opinion. Anyhow, we got them done and here are the best and only 2 shots we purchased :)

Thanksgiving at the Beach House

O.K., I know I'm so totally lame by posting Thanksgiving stuff in December but my life has been consumed by Sing Noel for the past month. Now that it's over I can start catching up on all the things I've been neglecting--such as my blog :) Here goes:

Josh and I drove up to the beach house on Wednesday night. Mima had just gotten out of the hospital since she had a pace maker put in on Monday. My mom and aunts were so busy taking care of Mima that they just wanted to order something for Thanksgiving! Josh (having expierenced eating a turkey loaf with my family for Thanksgiving in the past) said NO WAY! So we stepped up and decided to make the whole Thanksgiving meal for 15 people. We had a bunch of fun too. Luckily my mom rented out a beach house a few doors down from Mima so we could use 2 kitchens--and give Mima some space to rest. We made home-made mashed potatoes, a candied yam suffle, fresh green bean casserole, rolls, and Josh was in charge of the turkey and gravy. It was DELICIOUS. It sounds like we will be in charge of Thanksgiving dinner from now on.
The next day, Ryan and Elise--and Nikki of course came up to the beachhouse to play with us. We had fun playing Settlers of Catan (I won by the way) and just hung outby the beach most of the time. And yes, the weather was amazing! Anyway, enjoy the pics.