The Best Christmas Breakfast!

 

 It's tradition to go to my mother-n-law's house on Christmas morning for the best breakfast of your life! Seriously the best breakfast ever!! It's so fun to get together with all Chad's siblings! We do our gift exchange and just relax and talk all together! It's a highlight for both/Chad and I to do this each year!

These pics are from when we were opening presents from each other! I'm truly blessed to have married into to such an amazing, loving, giving, and caring family! We love this tradition and can't wait till next year! Thank you and we love you!

The Merriest Christmas ever!

 Merry Christmas everyone! Boy oh boy was Santa good to us this year!!

Top collage is when the kids first came out! Penny ran straight to her stocking in excitement and of course Cash followed right along!! Then it was time to see if Santa came.....

 and of course Santa came and he spoiled our kids!! This collage is from when they went running down the hall and spotted what Santa brought them!! Penny squealed out and Cash kept saying "ohhhhh!" "me?" "mine" hahaha! Their reactions were priceless!! Best day ever!!

 

Then it was onto unwrapping presents!! Oh boy did we all get some fun surprises!! Kids were hyped!! Seriously love seeing their reaction and excitement on their faces!! So much joy to my heart!! Love these 2!! and love spoiling them!!

 

Here's Cash's final spread!!!

 

 and here's Penny's final spread!! A Christmas success I'd say!! So much to be thankful for!!  Best day Ever!!

A Merry Christmas Eve!!

 

Such a fun quick trip to see my sister and her sweetest family on Christmas Eve!! These 4 just play and play and play! I was lucky enough to get my hair done by the best!! Just love how she always takes such good care of me! Even Cashy got a fresh cut for Christmas! Let's just say we were all looking ON for Christmas! Hahaha! Sure loved our quick trip to Utah!  Thank you little Eryka for always taking such great care of us! We love you!

Christmas Fun at Dad & Janeen's!

 Lot's of Christmas fun over at my dad and Janeen's!! Janeen always puts on a great Christmas dinner and tons of desserts too! So much food and treats!!! Grandma Janeen and Grandpa John always go out of their way to spoil all the grand kids!!! This year to add to the fun Grandma Janeen planned a cute little Christmas play of the true meaning of Christmas with all the grand kids in it! Complete with a stable backdrop and costumes for all!! So fun!

These are the cute pics from their little play they performed! Such a great night together! Thank you Grandma Janeen and Grandpa John! We love you both so much!

Our Big Star!!

 Oh  how we love Singer's Company! Oh how Penny's just Loves to sing, dance and put on a show! Oh how we love to watch her perform her little heart out! She had 3 Christmas performances this year!! and boy did she dance and sing her little butt off each night!! Proud parents over here! She seriously is a hoot to watch!! Just love her so much!! This top collage is from her very 1st performance at the retirement home!! These sweet elderly people just love these girls and love watching them perform!!

This collage is after she performed at the retirement home!! Penny and Cash just love these sweet ladies! This is Penny's 3rd year in Singer's Company! She and I both loved having Penny's little cousin Tayven joined and Penny's little friend, Olivia joined! You can spot this trio together in most these pics! So much fun!!!!

 

These are from her 2nd performance out at Town Square! It was a bit chilly and sweet Mrs. Brittany got all the girls scarves and gloves to perform in!! So sweet and Penny just loved accessorizing before the big show! haha!!!

 This collage is also from Town square!! Both grandpas were able to come out to this show!!! Penny just loves looking out in the crowd to see who came out to watch her sing!

 Last but not least these pics are from her 3rd and final performance! The friends and family night!! She really rocked it this night!!

Penny just loves looking out in the crowd to see who came out to watch her sing! Thanks to all who came out to all the different shows!! We sure love you all!

Penny's Class Party!

 

The cutest group of little kids yet!! I was lucky to get to volunteer in Penny's kindergarten class for her Christmas Party!! Penny sure loves when I'm in there helping out! It sure makes my heart happy! I hope she never changes about that!! She's my biggest fan!! haha! She has had so much Fun in her class! Has made so many new and amazing little friends! She just loves her teacher Mrs. Fisher and we are super sad to see her go!! However we are so excited for her new teacher Mrs. Marx! We grew up together and I've gotten to do her makeup for some special events as well! YAY!! Cant' wait for Penny to have her as her teacher!! 

Magical Forrest Fun!

So I have been so sick with pneumonia for a few weeks now and haven't been out of the house to take my kids to do anything Christmasy!! My mother-n-law has been wanting to go to the Magical Forrest and take the grand kids for a few weeks now! So I decided to break out of the house and take the kids and go with Grandma! We all had blast! Cash loved the Choo-choo train ride through the Forrest of lights and Penny loved it all!! While we were there we even got to see Santa!! YAY!! He was the sweetest best Santa!!! Penny had fun talking to him and Cash was a bit of a hot mess!! They wouldn't let me take any pictures so that's why it's not in the collage!! Such a beautiful night!! So fun to get out and feel the Christmas spirit! Thanks Grandma Deedee!!

Family Pics On Point!

 

DeeDee and Fadi hired an amazing photographer to take our big family pics! Turns out I worked with the photographer Natalee at MAC years ago! So crazy! Such a small world! Well she did beautiful work and captured such amazing shots! The top collage are the ones i fell in love with of my sweet little family!

 

This collage of pics are the ones my wonderful Dr. of everything sister, Eryn took of us! I had her meet us out at our location to take a few of us! She's brilliant! Love what she captured as well! So happy with our family pics this year!!

This last collage are the pics from Natalee's photos of our big family group shots! Love this family and blessed to have married into it! I'm one lucky girl! Just  look at all these beautiful faces! Thank you so much DeeDee and Fadi for getting us all together and paying for such wonderful beautiful pics! We love you so much and so appreciate everything you do for us!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We have so much to be Thankful for! We are truly blessed! I'm so grateful for family and friends! This is what this time of year is all about! So For Thanksgiving we headed up to be with my sister and her family and all my extended family!! Our kids had a blast playing with all my cousins kids!! We only see my extended family about this time every year! It's so fun to catch up on life and see how big their kids are getting!! It's crazy how much changes in just 1 year! We spent most the day at my aunt and uncles house! Chad took all the cousins on rzr rides in his new turbo! They had a blast! Us ladies planned out our Black Friday shopping!! and before we  knew it it was time to shop!! This is my favorite part!! Chad is always so good to me and stays with the kids and gives me no limit of spending! haha He's so my match! To start I met up with some of our greatest friends that were up in Santa Clara as well visiting and we were off!! Then shortly after our first stop my sister met up with us! We shopped and shopped!! Found so many amazing deal!! Love getting all my Christmas done in 1 night! We spent the next day up there and went to the new movie "The Good Dinosaur!" It was so good! Such a sweet touching movie! At one point I was tearing up I look over to chad and he had tears in his eyes then looked down at Penny and she was even crying!! She really gets into the movies at her age! Now Cash on the other hand pretty much watch us watch the movie!! haha! He had more fun seeing our facial reactions than the movie! He's still a little too young! haha! All in all we had a wonderful family filled mini vacation!

Dune Time!

More Dune fun for us this last weekend! It was a beautiful weekend to be out there! Great riding and great laughs by the fire!! Can't wait to get back there!!

Trail Riding in our new Razor!

We have been loving our new 4 seat Razor!! Loving it so much we went with our bff Johnson's out up in the mountains behind their house for some trail riding!! It was so beautiful! Perfect weather too!! We came across beautiful red rocks and caves!! So fun!! The kids had a ton of fun hiking in the caves and up on the red rocks! We rode up and long the mountains and could almost see our house!! We had a blast! Love fun adventurous weekends with my family and bff's! There's nothing better!!

Our Happy Halloween!

 

Here's how Team Bierstedt does Halloween!! Meet Elsa and Olaf! I can't take any credit for this adorable "make you heart melt" matching duo....all Penny's idea! She told me she really wanted to be the "real Elsa" so she needed her very own little Olaf!! Then proceeds to say "that's it mommy I know just who can be my little Olaf...Cash!" She seriously is genius! haha! I matched them last year as Woody and Jesse from Toy Story and I couldn't figure out what I could do for this year until Penny said it!! All her idea! Giving her full credit for the cutest matching duo!! Elsa and her little Olaf!! Amazing! They were so cute too! Penny would say to Cash "melt Olaf...get on the ground in a ball" then she would start swirling her hand as he would start to stand! She was magically making Olaf with her ice powers!! haha She was the "real Elsa!" Seriously can't get enough of their little personalities! They are magical!! So precious! Cash totally played along with her magical ice queen powers! haha! I love them so much!! These 2 sweeties are truly worth melting for!!

 

Now let me introduce you to our latest baby!! Our brand new 4 seater 1000 Turbo!! Wow! It's a beauty! Has so much power and rides so smooth! Can't feel any hard bumps at all!! Best purchase we have made yet!! We work hard to play hard! and there it is!!! Perfection!! 

 

These last 2 collages our from a fabulous weekend out at Dumont! We spent our Halloween weekend out there! Such a rush! It's always the highlight to go Trick or Treating around from camp to camp! These camps get way into it! Go all out! More than I have seen done at any house in town! haha Love it! That's what makes it so fun!!

 

Loving our New ride and the dunes!

Halloween Party Fun!

 

Penny sure has loved her teacher Mrs.Fisher  and all her little friends at Somerset Sky Pointe! She had a blast at her Halloween party last week! and I had a blast volunteering!! So fun to see all the kids in their costumes! They got to play fun games and eat lots of yummy treats!! Can't wait for the next party!!

 

Go! Eagles! Go!

 Boom Dynamite!! Our Team is Boom Dynamite!! I put Penny in Cheer leading at her School to see how she would like! Well....she loved it and boy was she the Dynamite!! She cheered her little heart out at her very 1st Cheer Performance last night!! She has had so much fun making new friends, loved her cheer coach and most of all being in cheer class with her bff cousin Emma!! Too much Fun! Right down my ally in fact I wanted to get right up there and join in on all their cheers!! Love this!!! So proud of her remembering all her cheers and dances!! Love you Penny girl! She's such a doll! So fun and exciting to watch! Lots of animation in those cheers! You go girl! haha So proud!! Looks like we need to get you onto a competitive cheer team!!! You're ready! haha!

Penny's 1st Apex Fun Run!!

 

Penny ran her 1st Apex Fun Run at her school today! We sponsored her $1 a lap and Zane (her cousin) pledged her $5!! She ran a grand total of 36 laps!! Yay! Go Penny! Go!! She ran her butt off! haha! We were so proud!! Even Cashy was proud of his big sissy! He would stand on the sideline cheering her on and giving her high fives as she ran by!! So adorable!! I was lucky to be able to slip away from work (hence my Halloween costume) and snatch up Tauna to go and watch my girl race!! This Ninja Turtle doesn't go anywhere with out her Master Splinter!! haha We had a blast being able to be there and wearing our costumes! The kids all thought it was funny too!! We are so proud of our Penny girl!! She killed it on the track today!! Hooray!

Pumpkin Patch!!

More pumpkin patch fun for us!! We went to our favorite one in boca park by my work!! It's the most bang for your buck!! and these 2 cuties had so much Fun! Went on everything more than 2 times!! I have never seen my Cashy boy laugh so hard!! He loved the rides!! Penny is the sweetest Big sissy too! She helped him on off every ride! Stuck right by his side! Would help him put on his shoes after all the bounce house slides and jumpers and road on every ride right by his side!! Such a sweetheart!! These 2 just love each other!! Makes mommy super happy when all are getting along!!

San Diego FUN!!

 

 We had some serious fun down in San Diego this past weekend!! This is our tradition to go down to Sea World and the Zoo on this same weekend every year in October! This was our 6th year running!! Since before Penny was even born!! So fun!! We love it! and if you didn't know the month of October at all San Diego attractions Kids are FREE!!! So another amazing reason to go in October!!It's so awesome to see the kids get so excited over everything when we are there! Each year gets better and better as they both get bigger!

 

When we get down to San Diego the 1st stop is Sea World! We go on the Friday so it's not to busy!! Love experiencing all this fun through our kids eyes!! Truly amazing!! They bring my heart so much joy!! The shows were different this year and that was really cool!   

 

On Saturday we spend the whole day at the Zoo! We shut that place down! Had a blast!! Cash was so into the animals this year making all the animal sounds, pointing with excitement when he would see them! So fun!! We caught the animals at perfect time as we explored! They were all awake eating or playing! Just super active and we sure loved it! Lots of  the momma's had babies this past year! So sweet to see their interaction!! Momma's and their babies are so the Best!!

  

I took so many fun pics it was hard to narrow down the best ones!! Love getting to spend time with my family!! Isn't this just what life's about!! LOVE it!

It's Sand Dune Time!!

 

It's that time of year again!! Sand Dune season has started and we are stoked!! Such beautiful weather with beautiful people making it a beautiful weekend!! Love being with my family!! We always have such a wonderful time together!

  

My Big boys catching Big air!! Chance (9) on the White bike and Mav (6) on the Blue bike! The was Mav's very first time out on her Blue bike!  I can't believe how good they are getting!! So brave!! No fear! Some day that will be my Cashy boy out there!! He definitely has no fear already!! My nephews make me smile so big!! They are such a good boys!! Penny just loves them and really looks up to them too!! Can't wait to get back out there!! 

Penny's School Fall Carnival!

We had such a blast at Penny's School Fall Festival! Penny was so excited to go all dressed up as Elsa and little Cashy as her Olaf!! They are just the cutest! I definitely over did it with the 200 pre-order tickets but all is good! We used them and had a blast!! I'm pretty sure the highlight was when Cash Won a real live Fishy!! Penny was so freakn excited and is still hyped about having her 1st Pet!! She named it Bubble de-Dubble Bailey Bierstedt and just "Bubble" for short! haha She is too much!! I'm not too sure about the Fish myself but we shall see how long it lasts! haha

Go!! Ninjas!! Go!!

Go Ninjas Go!!! We screamed yelled and cheered our little Ninja on!! haha! We went up to St. George this past weekend to get my hair done and we stayed for the whole weekend! So fun to see my most amazing sister!! There's nothing like sisters!! Just love being around her!! So fun!! Loved seeing my sweetest little nephews and most perfect little niece! Penny's highlight of the whole weekend is just being with her Zane!! We even got see him play soccer!! The Ninjas came home with their 1st WIN with Zane scoring most all their GOALS!!! Go Zane Go!! He played so hard with so much passion! and we cheered and screamed with so much passion! haha!! Penny was just a doing all her cheers that she has been learning at her Cheer class at her school!!!A much needed and wanted sister bond weekend!!! Love you sissy slus and your beautiful family!!

Getting Spoiled!!!

My favorite time of year is here! Here's our first trip to the Pumpkin Patch! Grandma DeeDee and Grandpa Fadi picked up our  kids and took them to dinner and then to the Pumpkin Patch! We met up with them once we were done with scouts!! Boy when we got to the pumpkin patch our kids were hyped just having a blast!! They of course did not want to leave!! Once again Grandma and Grandpa spoiled them good!!!! Thanks for such a fun time!!! We love you!!! Seriously the best time of year!! Can't wait to go to the next Pumpkin Patch!!! YAY!!!

Beach Fun for Labor Day!!!

 We always love getting away especially when it's a long weekend!! For Labor Day Weekend we headed down to the Beach!! Penny says she Loves the Beach and Loves staying in Hotels! haha! She pretty much just Loves life!! My happy sassy girl!!

 My boy Loves it too!! haha He loves whatever Penny loves!! We leashed him up once again and both him and i had a fabulous day at the Beach!! Wasn't worried where he was going to go one bit and boy did he have a blast!! He's just getting too big!! My baby...stop growing!!!!!

Here's all the rest of the Fun candids that I got while we were there!! Another fabulous weekend with our most favorite people!!!

Penny's 1st Day of Kindergarten!!

 

I can't believe this day has come!! My baby girl is off to school!! She started Kindergarten at Somerset Sky Pointe am class with Mrs. Fisher as her teacher! Penny was so excited to go!! Like I have said before she is my brave girl!! She has been wanting to go to "big kid" school since she was 2yrs!! Always wearing her backpack and telling me she was going to school!! Love my girl!! She is so Smart! Almost to smart for her own good! haha! We couldn't be more proud of her!! We love you Penny!! We can't wait to see how much you learn this year with Mrs. Fisher!! Go get em, make your teacher proud and always make Smart choices!

1st Dental Visits With the Best Dr. in Town!!!

 

These two little cuties both had their very 1st dental visit with the most Amazing Dr. Schmitt!! Penny has always been my brave tough strong girl!!  I would always bring her into my work and clean her teeth myself but this time was her very 1st x-rays and check up by the real deal!! Auntie Dr. Joanna!! and the results....NO CAVITIES!!! YAY! She's such a good girl always brushes and flosses her teeth so good!! So proud!! and always so brave when in any Dr.'s office!!

As for this little guy!! I need to bring him into my office more often and get him warmed up like i did with Penny at her age!! He is not so brave! haha! He barely let Auntie Dr. Joanna check his teeth! No xrays for him and no cavities either!! He's just bearly getting his teeth! haha Still on the late show with those! 

We sure do love their Dr!! She's the most amazing, honest, lite with her touch, very steady and a true perfectionist! We love you and thank you so much for taking such great care of all of us!!

Cash's Birthday Bash!!

 Choo-Choo!!! We celebrated Cash's 2nd Birthday with a Thomas the Train Swim Party over at Grandpa John's house!! He loves trains!! He will say over and over Choo-Choo!! So sweet! We just love this boy of ours!! He can be a naughty one but I've heard his dad was the same way!! hahah! Daddy still is!! hahaha!!!!!

 We just can't get over that he's 2yrs old already!! Thanks to all who came and spoiled him!! It sure is fun being with family and friends!! We love you all!!

and of course we Love you too Cashy!!!!!!! More than life it's self!!!