Piper!

Little Miss Piper has had a fun December too! She has been busy making my Christmas Present in Pre-k! Making all the fun Christmas crafts and cooking up yummy Christmas treats! She also had a fun Christmas party at Chuck E Cheese! She had a blast! Penny lucked out too in being able to go! She had finals all week and was out early so she was able to come play at Chuck e Cheese too! Shhhh don't tell Cash! lol He was stuck at school! lol The girls had a blast! We sure do love Mrs. McIntyre and all that she does for her cute little students! She's the best!! Teaches them so much!

 

Cash!

It's been a fun December for Cash! Basketball started! Wahoo! He loves to shoot the hoops! He is killing it out there! Such a hustler! Made his free throw points and made a shots during the game!! Proud momma! lol! I was screaming so loud I had no voice! lol! Way to go #2! Cash also had his School Christmas Performance! It was great to be back at the school for these cute fun little performances! He sang and danced his little heart out up there! He's just too cute! Always proud of my boy! Love my Cashy Boy!

Cash has some fun visitors to watch him at his game! Grandma, Auntie and cousins! He was pumped up for sure to see his bff cousin Hayes in the stands! Love when my sister comes to town! We had a great day together! Cousins played non stop for hours on end! 

 

Penny!

This December has been busy for each of the kids! Penny finally got her Cheer uniform! YAY! So she is all ready for the basketball season to start!! Go Eagles! She also had a blast at her Cheer Christmas party! They did a secret sister gift exchange and just had a blast! Tacos! Cupcakes! Presents! and Games! She sure loves her cheer friends! She also got welcomed into the Young Women! Can't believe she is going into young women's! She's super excited to be with the big girls! Oh my! She's growing fast! Love my little Penny Pie!

 

Our Most Amazing Christmas Tradition!

One of our most favorite Christmas traditions is going to the Western Elite Christmas Experience! We were so happy it came back! With covid last year they were not able to do it and we missed going so much! It's my most favorite event of the Christmas season!  What a wonderful magical night! And if you can believe it's all free! The whole night! We still can't believe how generous they are in putting on such an amazing event for free! Food! Hot Cocoa! Several different Mini train rides! Hayrides! Giant fire pits to sit around and visit! and the Golden Ticket to the Christmas Train Express! It was a cold one! Out in Alamo the high was 32 degrees! When we left it dropped to 28 degrees! So we were bundled up with several layers! lol

This year we had 26 family members come with us from both Chad's side of the family and mine! Both my sister's came with their families! Chad's brother and cousin came with their families! So many cousins together equals the best time together! Here are the pics from eating and our Hayride!

The line for the Big train is so magical! So many things to see and do! Hot cocoa stands! Sucker house! Candy cane lane! Seriously so much fun!

More pics of the all the amazing things they have around while in line to aboard the Christmas Train Express!

All aboard!!!!!! We made it on the Christmas Train Express! We couldn't wait to get on my friend Taeya's Train! She was the MC for the train and we had so much fun!! 

We traveled to the North Pole seeing so many fun scenes through the train windows! When we reached the North Pole Santa and Mrs. Clause jumped onto our train! We sang Christmas songs took lots of pics as you can see! Thanks Taeya you're the best!!! My little Piper sure couldn't get enough of you either!

They have so many fun places to take pics! So here we are just a posing!

More pics! lol

Oh and more pics! lol! Such a wonderful amazing night together! We are so grateful for Western Elite and the wonderful most amazing magical night we had! Can't wait until next year to go back and kick the Christmas Season off at the Western Elite Christmas Experience! 

 

Baskball!! Let's Go Blue Devils!

 We are back at it!! Basketball time for Cash! A new season and new league! This time with the NJB league at the YMCA! He's also on the team with 2 of his friends from school and saw other friends from his school on the other teams as well! :) Cash's first game was Saturday! New jerseys! He loved them! Had his name on the back! He was loving it! He was totally thinkn he was the coolest! lol #2 is ready to throw down! lol He seriously is getting good! He is fast and can handle the ball very well! He was getting all the rebounds too! He was everywhere! lol Let's go Blue Devils! It's going to be a fun intense season! lol You just want to go out there and dribble and the shoot the ball yourself! lol too funny! Let's do this #2!!!!

The Most Beautiful Enchant Christmas Experience!

We had the most sparkling, beautiful night at the Enchant Christmas at the Ball Park! If you haven't been you must go! Such a beautiful display of Christmas lights! and the most Perfect Santa ever!! He does exist! :) The kids were in awe over him! Cash kept saying "mom this is the real Santa for sure. I know it!" :) My heart is happy! We are big believers over here! The smiles on their faces were priceless when they got to see the most perfect Santa ever! We then went and saw Mrs. Clause where she read books to the kids! So fun! There was a little kid play area and color station too! 

Gorgeous lights!! So many lights you could not believe your eyes!! Also the perfect night to match your bestie! We were so giddy to wear our matching sweaters to surprise our husbands and kids and it was so dang cold we were covered up in big warm jackets all night! lol We took the coats off just for this pic! lol Then quickly got layered back up! lol We will have to match another time Bestie! lol

Best friends for life and bonus they are all cousins! We love spending time together! They had a scratch off scavenger hunt for all the giant reindeer to find! It was so much fun! A maze to find them and my kids! lol That was a tad bit stressful! lol But we did pretty dang good maintaining to stay together! 

Such a wonderful night with beautiful people and beautiful lights! We ended out amazing night going over to Pieology for yummy pizza! 

 

Piper's Singers Performance!

Sweet little Piper had her Singer's Company Christmas Performance! She absolutely loved getting all fancied up for her performance! She had a solo and a speaking part! She did both perfectly! She is so fun to watch! She loves to sing and dance! She's got big shoes to look up to in her big sister! :) We all loved watching her perform! She stole the show in my eyes for sure! Yay Piper!

Action shots from her performance!

More action shots from her performance!

Oh and just a few more!! You can tell I couldn't stop taking pics of her just a singing and dancing! Love my baby so much!

 

Thanks to all that came to watch her perform! She loved seeing her aunties and grandma in the audience cheering her on! Great job baby! We love you Piper so much!

NFR Date Night for my Boys!

These 2 had an amazing fun night! Chad was give 2 tickets to the NFR!! Wahoo! So my boys got all cowboyed up and hit the town!! Cash was loving his date night with dad! After the rodeo daddy took Cash out for steak dinner cause "that's what real men do!" The words of Cash! 

 These 2 have my whole heart! My boys! Love them all cowboyed up too! They both had the best night of their life! 

Performing Penny!

Cute little Penny has been busy performing this month! She had her Piano and voice recital! Of course she rocked it out the park on her singing performance! She was the final performance and closed the recital down! I love watching her perform! She is such a natural! She knows just how to grab that audience and suck them right in with her voice and stage performance! lol Makes my momma heart so proud! 

Penny also performed in her Middle School Choir Concert! Such a great concert! Penny did amazing! Love listening to all the Christmas songs that were performed! We absolutely love Ms. Gifford! She has been such a fun and amazing choir teacher! Way to go Penny!!!

 

Gingerbread House Time!

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Kicking off the Christmas festivities with making Gingerbread Houses!! Absolutely love this tradition with Bre and Jakes family!! I think this is our 4th year doing it and it definitely one of my faves! The kids have so  much fun being so creative! I love watching them make their little masterpieces! After they were done we ate Pizza and watched Elf! What a joyous night together! Love making memories with these cute faces!

 

November Monthly Pics from my phone!

Another month has come and gone. We had a busy November and these are the rest of the pics from my phone! Christmas went up! Christmas shopping has started! Cash finished golf! Penny finish cheering for football! Now she is gearing up for basketball season to start in Jan! Fun date night with my honz and neighbors visiting in town! Penny got an award at school! and cute pics of Penny at activity days! She will soon be in YW so we got to capture all the cute pics at activity days while she's there!  

Penny's choir teacher put on a concert! So Penny had to go and support her! Miss. Gifford is amazing! So talented! She put on a 2 hour concert! She performed several covers and wrote her own songs too! Penny had the best time watching her favorite teacher perform! Oh did I mention there was yummy soups and treats too! So while you enjoyed the signing and performing you got to fill your belly with delicious soups and treats! It was a wonderful night! So glad we went to show our support! You rock Miss Gifford!

We enjoyed a beautiful wedding this month as well! Jade and Casey Decker were married and sealed on Nov 13,2021! YAY! We are beyond excited for these two and the adventures that await them! They are the most a beautiful and perfect couple! The temple sealing was perfect and the wedding reception was so much fun! Jackie and I danced all night for hours! lol Such a perfect beautiful day! Congrats you 2 love birds! Let the journey begin!

 

Disneyland!!!

The Happiest Place on Earth! No better way to enjoy Thanksgiving then at Disneyland with your most favorite people.....family! We went with My sister's family- Eryka! Chad's dad and brother's family- Jacob! Disney did not disappoint! We had the best 2 days of our life! lol It had been a couple years since we had been there! Cash was finally tall enough for every ride and Piper old enough and tall enough for every ride but 2. So we hit up Disneyland hard core! lol

     

We traveled down to Cali on Thursday-Thanksgiving day and enjoyed walking around Downtown Disney! We ate and shopped and ate some more! lol Then for dinner we had a Thanksgiving feast at MiMi's Cafe! It was good too! 

After dinner we headed to the Hotel! We stayed at the Double Tree down close to Disneyland. We got checked in and settled and then the kids hit the pool up! This was Piper's most favorite! Going to the Hotel Pool! lol We were already off to a wonderful fun filled Thanksgiving weekend!

Day 1: Disneyland! I made our matching shirts for both days off our new DTG machine! So fun! We were up and out of our hotel catching the Disneyland shuttle at 6:30am! Wahoo! It was already popping! The line for security was insane! lol But we got through that at 7:15 am then rushed to the Disneyland gate. We waited there until 7:30 am. Then we stayed left and went to enter the park at Frontier land! You know where we are headed! Straight the new Star Wars Rise of the Resistance Ride! They had everyone stay behind the ropes until 8am then it was a walking mad dash through the big crowds over to the new ride! It was insane and I loved it! Such a rush!

We made it walking right on the new ride! It was awesome! The Rise of Resistance was so freakn good! We beat the long lines all day! We were ahead of the crowds all morning! We went from Star Wars land to critter land, to Adventure land and finished Frontier land! We did all the rides in those listed lands within 2hrs! Walked on every ride! It was so amazing! We even ate along the way! Ordering from the app is genius and dangerous at the same time! lol Oh and did I mention we had a party of 20! and we got through all those rides and lands  together! We were doing Disney!!!!! lol

From Frontier land we went to Fantasy land! Spent lots of time in there! Piper and Penny were in heaven! After that we went over to Tomorrow land! We saw parades along the way! It was truly just the best day ever!

The kids loved seeing the characters! Loved riding the rides! Loved the treats, food and shopping! 

More pics from day 1.

As the sun set it was time for the night parade! Oh how the kids loved it!! I loved it too! Love being in the Disneyland bubble! lol 

We celebrated Zane's 12th Birthday too! Can't believed my sister Eryka has a 12 year old! :) He is the sweetest gentle giant! So tall! In fact he is taller than me! Been taller than me for quite some time too! Wow! Big strong growing boy! We love you Zane!! 

Day 2: California Adventure! It's been well over 2-3 or more years since we have been to here. In fact I think Penny was the baby! So this was Cash and Piper's first time at this park! Of course we did a repeat of day 1! Left the hotel on the shuttle at 6:30 am! Same security wait but this time we were the 1st in line at the gates to get in! Then we rushed fast over to rope drop! Once the rope dropped we headed to our first ride the new Spiderman Ride! Stay left the whole way in and you will see Avengers Campus! Amazing! The Spiderman ride was awesome! It's interactive like Toy story ride but in this one you throw webs! We are huge Spiderman and Tom Holland fans so we absolutely loved this ride! Ps. Penny says Tom Holland is her boyfriend! lol So needless to say she loved Avengers Campus! The shopping store and the ride times 10! 100% lol

From avengers campus we spent lots of time in Cars land! That is the cutest land ever! The ride is amazing! One of our faves and the food is to die for over there too!

More rides and more spotting characters! So fun!

The Incredicoaster! Hands down the best roller coaster ride ever! This was Cash's favorite ride! He rode it so  many times! Over and Over again! The lines over here in California Adventure were not to bad at all! 20-30 min wait! Most of the little rides were a 5-10 min wait too! Got to love Toy story ride too! So fun! Eryka creamed us all! She had the top score out of all 20 of us! lol You go girl! Everyone had bets on Chad winning! lol Nope Eryka did! lol

Gardians of the Galaxy! My first time ever on that ride! I'm still not sure how I feel about it! lol The free fall drop is not my thing but a fast roller coaster with whips, twists, turns, upside down and the swings is my thing! lol But I had to go on at least once! Rt?? lol Piper was tall enough to go and Loved it! This was Cash's first time on this ride and he loved it too! Penny not chance even to get her on there! lol

Spotted more characters this time all on Avengers Campus! We got to see Spider mans show too where he flings across the campus! Hangs upside down! Flips around! It was cool! Of course Penny was in Heaven! Her love for Spiderman runs deep! lol It's the man behind the mask that she is crushing on! lol Too funny!

We had the most amazing and memorable time together! We love Disneyland, California Adventure and all it's magic! The best time with cousins too! We love creating adventures and memories with our family! We can't wait to get back!! Chad says Disney World next! So get ready Florida here we come! lol One day!!! lol Thanks honz for working hard and making everything possible for our little family! Disneyland you did not disappoint!