Tuesday, January 11, 2011

One Busy December

Ack!!!! Here it is MAY and I'm just now finishing posting of December? I gotta get on the ball! With that said, here are some of the things we did in December!!! Slapjack and Checkers, the boys' mischevious little elf friends, came to visit us for several days over the holidays. They only sleep one hour a night and the rest of the night they seem to make messes.


Who else visited us this December? Nana and Papa!!! They came to make cookies, wrap packages, decorate gingerbreak houses and just soak up our last wonderful Christmas in Hermosa Beach.



We took Nana and Papa to the Science Museum and Papa was brave enough to try riding a bike over 50 feet in the air across a cable - yikes!




The elves had a snowball fight in our living room with marshmallows, those crazy little guys! Tyler and Tristan were more than happy to eat the evidence.





Get used to it, kids. It actually rained in Hermosa, and hard! Afterward the boys went out and splashed around, getting their boots, pants, socks, underwear, everything, wet. Good practice for the upcoming move.






Does frosting count as a beard? What is Santa's made of?








Again, Slapjack and Checkers tried to make Tyler's room into a winter wonderland by using, you guessed it, TP.









That cute little elf at the top is Tyler in his Christmas pageant. His class sang at the Salvation Army and it was adorable!










Daddy's birthday always takes a bit of a backseat to Christmas, but we at least baked him a cake, made him make a wish and blow out his candles.











Glorious beach!!!! We've been in Hermosa how long and have never been to Abalone Cove? I started looking for places we've never been to this fall and we finally got up to this wonderful, deserted beach with tons of soft sand, beach stones and wonderful tide pools. Plus it was 80 degrees in December - who doesn't love that?????












Neither one of the kids were fooled by this particular Santa. Only in Hermosa....














We may not have snow, but we've got sand and a lot of it. Our sand snowman might not have won any prizes, but it was admired by many an onlooker - and it was quite fun to make!!!















Hunting for the perfect Christmas tree! Thank goodness the lot is fenced in because these boys had me looking all over for them!
















Gingerbread architects at school. What is this? Modern? Classical? Mediterranean?

















I love this photo! Tristan and Tyler both ran up and down the sand berm probably 200 times in December. Nothing feels so good and free as sand under your feet and salty air in your hair. What adorable little boys I have!!!!


















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