Friday, January 23, 2009

Playing in the Rain!

Skipping in the rain!


Taking a break to enjoy her sucker!

Well its been raining off and on here the last two days. Daddy and London have been going outside having a grand ol' time! The sucker was an extra bonus! :)

Miss and love you all
xo!

Daddy turns 31!









Eric turned 31 on January 15! Grammy and Papa came down to visit and our good friends The Talty's treated us to Pizza. Thank you all for your cards and gifts!!! Eric is blessed with a wonderful family, and great friends!

xoxo

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO OF LONDON AND CAMERON AFTER THE SUGAR STARTED TO SETTLE IN FROM THE COOKIE CAKE!

Going to the Beach!






We had a lot of auditions this week in Santa Monica. So needless to say, we made time each day to go to the beach. Mommy finally remembered the camera and here's some pics of one of our fun filled days in the sun! Gotta love that its January in California and we are at the beach in tank tops and shorts! London was thrilled! She ask to go to the beach almost everyday.... so she was so excited!

xoxo

Having fun at KidSpace!

crawling all over the place!
learning about landslides
Peek-a-boo! This thing goes way up high and you can see through the flooring...needless to say mommy doesn't climb this with Ms. London.
making a trading card with daddy!

We headed on over to KidSpace in Pasadena. London loves this place. There is a lot of hands on activities for her to do inside and out. We had a great time!

xo


Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Christmas and New Years!

Back home playing dress up with best friend Cameron. Had a wonderful time, but glad to be home!
Mommy making London and Daddy laugh. London loves these funny teeth!
This truck was driving the wrong way....kidding! But did cause some worries as you were coming up on it on the road!
Lunch break at the Cracker Barrel! 
Beautiful snow!
Flagstaff, SNOW! London got to play in this and had a great time!
Entering Arizona!
New Mexico!
Dinner time before stopping at our hotel. We were all pretty tuckered out by this point. London was still hanging in there for us!
London asleep. 
Bathroom break. London always wanted to get in the front seat and pretend she was driving.
Driving back home to California!
New Years Day...Daddy, cousin Allix, and London playing the game "Sorry"
Opa and cousin Kevin playing with the choo choo train... the kids love this train!


Cheese train! Daddy and Allix were making cheese trains with fish crackers and cheese wiz.
London kept saying, "Come to my club house"
Kevin having some cheese and crackers, being silly with Uncle Eric
New Years Eve. Kevin and London playing with a gift that Uncle Ryan and Jessica brought over to London because she was sicky...this made her perk up, thank you guys!
Cousin Allix reading the get well card for London... this was on New Years Eve when London still had 102 temp! Having her cousins, Uncle Ryan and Jessica over helped her not think about the cold.
Allix singing and playing a song Oma wrote for all of us :)
Kevin listening to his sister play the piano. He later sang the song while Allix played the piano.
Having lunch with the Engle family and Opa met us too!
Good times with old friends :) Harrison was too cute!
Enjoying lunch!
At the mall being silly!
Daddy having a talk with his little angel ;)

Playing with her Oma.
Hide and Seek in the pants, one of her favorite games at the mall.
Of course, she needed treats! "Oma can I have some M&M's???"
Dinner with the Yost family! They drove from Stillwater to see us, thank you guys!! With 3 kids we know that's not an easy thing!
Best Friends, Best Dad's!
Rachel and London racing cars.
London and Renee dancing their little hearts out!
Competitive.... not only OSU vs. OU...  not sure who one this game, although we know who one the OSU vs OU game, don't we folks ;)
Uh oh! Watch out.... a peek to the future, the girls on the road!
Dinner with Oma and Opa!
Family pic!
Hugging her second cousin Jonah Rose :)
Helping her Opa fix the vaccum, this was so cute!
Giving her Great Uncle Kelly rocks
The girls had so much fun playing in the leaves
Playing with her Great Grandpa!

Having a blast on her Great Grandparents, Granny and Grandpa's, swing set!
It was over 70 degrees this day, it felt wonderful outside!


London, Caleb, and Jonah
Naming the colors of the rocks with Jonah
Daddy's Grandpa!
Uncle Kelly, Aunt Jesse, Granny, Opa, and Oma talking and relaxing!
Uncle Ryan playing with Caleb.
Supper Granny!
Christmas Eve!
Christmas presents!! It was Christmas by the time we went to bed this night.... this was the night London started to feel sicky (those teeth were hurting).... I think the presents helped though! ;)
Oma, Daddy, and Opa being silly
Our Christmas Angel!
Christmas Eve service. London was obsessed with her cousin Allix. She loved playing with her!

Snuggling with her Opa, she was definitley and Opa's girl on this trip!
Playing Hide and Seek with Aunt Inge!

Visiting Uncle Bill, sad we missed Aunt Bev and Nanny that day, but had a good ol' time with Uncle Bill!
London loved Jessica. We would say Uncle Ryan is coming over, and London would always follow by saying, "and Jessica?!"
Christmas party before leaving to Oklahoma!

Sorry to take so long posting some pics of our Christmas and New Years in Oklahoma. I will start off by saying that our little 2 and a half year old proved her good ol' mom and dad wrong by being the best kid EVER driving in the car. Two days at 10 hours each day and the girl was amazing!!! She's the best toddler ever! I will try to remember that when a tantrum settles in at some point ;)

We had a wonderful time celebrating with family and friends. An amazing reminder of how blessed we truly are! We have so much to continue to be thankful for and being back in Oklahoma was a true reminder of that :)
We were blessed to be able to spend some time with, of course Oma and Opa, Aunt Inge and Uncle Doug cousin Allix and cousin Kevin, Uncle Dougs parents, Nanny, Granny and Grandpa, Aunt Jesse and Uncle Kelly and Jonah and Caleb, Uncle Keith and Laura, Uncle Ryan and Jessica, Uncle Bill (sad to miss seeing Aunt Bev), spent time with The Engle family, and The Yost family. There were a few close friends and family we missed seeing, Rachel's good friend Kelly being one of them, but at the end of our last week, London came down with the flu having a temp of 102 for a few days. This sort of put a damper on plans we had hoped would happen, but these things can't be controlled and the poor little gal hung in there, even on new years, she was determined to play with her cousin's, even if she was just laying on the bed with them :)

We are glad to report, that London is doing much better now. It took a few days back home to still get over the cold and adjust back to the time zone. She also began cutting her top two year molars once we arrived in Oklahoma. We are still waiting for those two last teeth to pop fully out! But what a little trooper she is!

We hope all of you had a wonderful time with your friends and families this season. Happy New Year!!!!

Love you and Miss you!

xoxo