we had SUCH a fun Christmas! My sister Meghan and her whole family came out to stay with us for 2 weeks! My girls love their kids so much. Especially baby Lilly!!
We had a gingerbread house contest and asked one of our neighbors to judge them. Meghan and I did one together, its the all white one below. My sister Jennifer did the bottom left one (and got 1st place) and my other sister Heather did the one on the bottom right.
We went and looked at Christmas lights and visited a place close to us called Santa's house where they decorate their house, Santa Claus is there and they give each kid a toy. SOO fun! We also went to Lego Land, once right before Christmas and once on New Years Day. New Years Day is definitely the day to go, there was NO ONE there, it was so much fun!
We made it to the beach one time because Meghan's kids never get to go to the beach. The water was freezing, but the kids didn't care, they had fun playing in the sand and water!
We went to Belmont Park one day where they have a bunch of rides right by the beach. We were also able to go ice skating and bowling. It was my girls first time going ice skating and they LOVED it, it looks like we might have to go back pretty soon.
On Christmas Eve we had a yummy dinner and then had a gift exchange, which my parents funded! We all went to the mall to get our gifts for the person's name we chose. Then Rob and I and Meghan and Mark put all of the gifts out for our kids, it was so much fun!
On Christmas day we opened our presents and then my mom and dad came up and brought dough with them to make Christmas Candy canes. They are delicious and we grew up eating them every Christmas. They stayed up really late making the dough and the filling so my dad fell asleep on the couch! :) Rob made some cotton candy with the girls, it was one of their presents that they were really excited about. That night we went to my sister's house to eat another yummy dinner and open up some more gifts! It was such a great Christmas. Thanks mom and dad!!
Rob and I took the girls to Old Town because they had a Mormon Batallion commemoration today. It was really fun and the girls loved it. They got to make their own little dolls and toast some biscuits on a stick! We also visited the first school ever built in San Diego. There is so much to do in Old Town, it brought me back to being in 8th grade for a minute! :)
