Christmas

Well, the holidays have come and gone once again. Wow did they ever go fast! We had the family over for dinner and "Christmas eve" on the Sunday before Christmas. Since, we all have in-laws to spend Christmas Eve with we carry on our Hone traditions the week before. Have to have crab won-tons, dinner and of course reading the Christmas story while the kids all dress up and act it out and singing and banging on instruments around the piano. The kids were off of school for two weeks. It was great we got to be together and make a new cookie each day, and have a wii day with the cousins.
Santa brought Disneyland tickets to us for Christmas. Best present ever. So after opening presents bright and early (try 5am). We packed up our belongings to head on vacation. We stopped at Grandma Hones for the traditional Blueberry waffle breakfast and opened presents with them. Grandma gave us all Disneyland shirts to wear on the big day. Then we headed for Mesquite to spend the night. We traveled the rest of the way to Escondido to the Lawrence Welk Resort. We spent a couple of days at the Resort playing, and one day at California Adventure and one day at Disneyland, as well as going to the Rose parade and seeing Bob's sister Laura in San Diego. We had a fabulous time. The kids loved Disneyland, though it was much colder than we had anticipated. And SO much more busy. But seeing the Haunted Mansion and It's a small World as Christmas was fantastic. We made the kids an autograph book and they loved getting the characters autograph's. We did not get them all and will have to save them for another trip but it was a highlight of the trip. Another highlight was giving the kids their own money for the trip. They had so much fun picking out what they wanted to buy for themselves. And Mom and Dad didn't have to say no. California adventure we did not love as much as Disneyland but had a great time seeing the Aladdin show and the Colors show on the water. They were both spectacular. We wish Santa would bring this gift more often. Best of all we missed the freezing cold temperatures at home and instead laid out by the pool while the kids swam. Too fun. New Years Day we went to the Rose Parade. There was some discussion about not going since we had to get up to early to go, but everything worked out perfect. We drove right up and parked and got to walk past all the line of floats before the parade and see them up close. They even gave all of us girls a rose. They were so beautiful and well worth our time. So much fun, a must do! We drove home all in one day, and everyone did great, even Kamden. I guess we have broken him of hating his car seat! He has started to sit by himself for small moments of time and likes to eat his toes. Monday no-one went to school. We were all to tired and slept in really late. We are so glad we got this for Christmas and the kids were so much fun to watch. Edyn just wanted to see the Castle. "Can we see it yet mom?". She was thrilled to walk underneath it.
We were so glad that most of the Hone family could go. It is so fun to vacation with all the cousins, and my brother and sisters and their families. Can't wait to do it again.