Christmas 2008

It has been a long time since I have posted. I am going to try to be better during 2009, but we will see how that goes. This Christmas we decided to go to California since we found tickets for such a good deal. It was nice and cold so it really felt like Christmas. It was also nice because we have never been to California for Christmas and New Year's. I put our pictures in collages because it is quicker--enjoy!


Before we left, we attended our Ward Christmas party. We had a really nice program. Ongo sang with the choir and Caleb really enjoyed meeting Santa Claus.

Here are some pictures of Christmas morning. We had lots of fun opening presents--especially Caleb. It was nice because he slept until about 11:00--I decided that I better enjoy that before he starts getting up early on Christmas morning. We also made him open all of his presents that were clothes first before opening the toys because we knew that once he opened that toys he would not want to open anything else. His biggest present was the big garbage truck that he got from Grandma and Grandpa--garbage trucks are his favorite--it was a nice Christmas!

Here are some pictures taken later on Christmas day after Great-Grandpa and Johanna came over to eat dinner with us. Yum, yum--ham for Christmas dinner--my favorite!


The snow has been so low on the mountains this year that we had to venture out one day to take Caleb to play in the snow. He had so much fun, but it sure was cold. We just pulled off the side of the road and played in the snow, Caleb had a blast throwing snow at grandma. It was cold--I do not know how I survived on my mission--must have been the Spirit keeping me warm!


One day we took a trip out to Irvine Regional Park. This trip was inspired by Caleb's love of trains. He had so much fun riding the train. After the train ride, we went to the Orange County Zoo, Which is really small, but was fun anyway. After the zoo, Ongo wanted to go out on the lake in the bicycle boats. It was fun, but my legs had quite a workout that day!


After the park, we stopped by the Newport Beach Temple since we had not seen it yet. It was very beautiful and I am glad that we had the opportunity to be there on the Temple grounds.

On January 2nd we went to Disneyland. It was a cold day, but we had fun. We saw that cutest Pixar parade in California Adventure that Caleb really enjoyed. We also went on the Buzz LIghtyear ride, Autopia, Finding Nemo, Pirates, the train, the teacups, and the Monsters Inc. ride in California Adventure. We also saw the fireworks and the snow and Fantasmic. It was a fun, tiring, and cold day (we thought it would warm up, but it stayed in the 50's all day--BRRR!

Of course, part of the fun of being in California is seeing family and friends. Here are some pictures of us together and with out family and friends!

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