Celebrating Millie & Tony's 50th Wedding Anniversary

Jim's parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on 11/11/11!!! How cool is that? Since we weren't able to make it down to Orange County on their actual anniversary, we celebrated it while we were down visiting for Thanksgiving. Jim treated us all to a very nice dinner at a restaurant called "The White House" in Anaheim. It was a really unique place to eat and we had our own dining room to ourselves which was pretty cool. It was all decorated for Christmas and looked really pretty. Olivia was still recovering from the stomach flu so she managed to fall asleep on our way there and slept through the entire dinner, which made it all the more relaxing for Jim and I! Happy Anniversary Millie and Tony! Cheers to 50 years of wedded bliss!!! xoxox  

 
 
 

 

Pictures with Santa

So every year starting with when Cole was 2 months old, we have done a picture with all of the cousins and Santa. Thanks to an idea I stole from one of my friends, I've kept them all and hang them up each year at Christmas time. It's amazing to see how many kids we have added to the pictures (there were 4 this year) and there will be 6 next year, as well as to see how much their cute little faces and bodies change in such a short amount of time. We usually try to get them taken at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa during our annual "girl's shopping day," but since that didn't happen this year, we met up with my sister and her 2 kids at the Mission Viejo Mall. So here are all of the kids. Alec (almost 4), Liam (1 year), Olivia (3 years) and Cole (5 years). So cute and all so very precious to me!!  
 
 

 
 
 

Disneyland

Finally.....our family trip to the Happiest Place on Earth. What a special day! We headed to Disneyland on Wednesday (the day before Thanksgiving) with Jim's parents and two sisters and had a blast. I think I actually had more fun than the kids did :-) They were a little overwhelmed by it all, but still had a great time. It was really nice having extra sets of hands to help carry the kids, push strollers, etc.... The lines were all pretty long but Jim's dad needed a wheelchair which opened up a lot of doors for us - literally! We got to go in the handicapped lines on most of the rides, which meant we got on a total of 12 rides for the day. Not too bad for our first trip. We got there around 9:00 in the morning and the kids hung in through the end of the day with the evening parade show, followed by the fireworks at 9:30 and then they both literally passed out as we shopped down Main Street. We didn't leave the park until 10:45 that night! Man, were we tired but it was such a fun and magical day and we were so happy we had the chance to share it with Jim's family. Thankfully we had the next day (Thanksgiving) to sit around and recover because as our luck would have it, I woke up to a little girl with the stomach flu at around 5:00 in the morning and managed to stay pretty sick all day long :-)