Christmas get together at my brother's

Every year we try and get my family together either on Christmas Eve or a couple days before. We have not started a tradition at my brother's house. I get so scared to take the kids there because my brother doesn't have kids of his own and it is not kid proof. Thank goodness my brother and his wife like my kids and accommodate them.

Here is my mom and her kids.

Every year we have taken a picture here infront of the tree and it amazes me how we all have changed.

Talia of course has to be touching a nice ornament here....By the look of her face she knew that was not okay.

Visit from the tooth fairy

The tooth fairy was able to stop by and visit Jessica. In this case Jessica did not loose a tooth one was pulled out. Last year she had to have a baby root canal and it just recently went bad. The denist advised that it would be betther to pull it out and put a spacer in so we did. We told Jessica to put her tooth under her pillow and the tooth fairy would leave her something special.

She went to bed without fuss, she is such a doll.

In the morning we found this letter and two dollar bills....Jessica was so excited that she ran up to me in the morning and said "mommy look, the tooth fairy gave me money to buy candy." Yeah I don't think so, candy is what got the tooth pulled kiddo.

Caroling

Every year a bunch of families get together to go caroling and spread the Christmas cheer. This was my first year going and it was a lot of fun. The kids had a blast and ran around like crazy. Sometimes I wonder where all their energy comes from.

Talia was so hyper, Jake taught her to say "Merry Christmas". She just kept screaming it out over and over again.

Jessica and Kaelyn absolutly love their friends Carly and Kalei...Everytime the Woodhouse girls are around they get so excited.

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These are family and friends from CCII.

Jessica's Christmas program

Today we went to see Jessica's Christmas program at school and it was really cute. We went the night before to by her new shoes to go with her dress. The kids were really getting into the songs and it was so funny to watch.

My darling little girl. She was so excited to have Grandma and Aunt Jenny there....She kept mouthing "Were is Grandpa".

This is Jessica with her teacher Mrs. Evans. I heard her today at the performance say to the kids to not look at the parents to look at old and ugly. Sheesh as you can see she is definatly NOT old or ugly. She is a wonderful teacher!
The gang minus Talia who was throwing a fit at the moment and Kaelyn reminds me of the dog from the movie UP "squirel". Kaelyn never will look at the camera, she is always destracted.
This is the beautiful gift that Jessica made for me in class. I love these kinds of gifts, this will be something I will be able to cherish for years.

Kaelyn's Christmas program

Kaelyn had her Christmas program at school, she was so excited to sing her Christmas songs. This was a great program and everyone did so well.

She was one of Santa's reindeers here.

Disneyland at Christmas time

I love going to Disneyland during the holiday's. The decorations are just amazing and the atmosphere.

Natalia is the most beautiful little girl....I just love this picture of her.

Kaelyn loves her grandma...This was taken when we were waiting for the tram.

She loves her churro, and yet again she looks adorable here.
What perfect day. It was so much fun with the girls and the decorations were so nice.

Movie day

We took the girls to the movies to see Princess and the Frog. It was such a sweet movie! Russ and Cindy came along with the twins and we made day of it. We also went to take the girls to see Santa.

Homemade pizza

One thing I love that my dad can do is that he can make a killer pizza. A while back my dad had a bakery and it started where he sold bread then it turned to a pizza and sandwich shop. I think I ate pizza's and sandwiches everyday. Yesterday my mom called me and told me that they were making pizza's and to come over for dinner.

My dad helped the kids make their very own pizza. They did a great job!

Happy Anniversary

On November 23,2009 Jake and I celebrated our 7 year wedding anniversary. I swear time has flown by but so many memories have been created. I can't even begin to tell you what a great husband and father Jake is. I'm just glad that Heavenly father has blessed me with this wonderful man.
Thanks to my inlaws Jake and I were able to go out and have a fabulous dinner at Salt Creek in Valencia.

Magic castle

So exciting! I got to go to the Magic Castle last night. I have never been there but always wanted to go. Jake's parents were not able to attend so theeave us their tickets. Jake knows how I am about holiday parties and that I would love to go. We rushed home and got changed and headed to Hollywood. When we got there we had to enter thru a bookshelf that slid open when you say "Open Sesame". SO COOL! Jake was laughing at me all night because I was so excited to be there. A bunch of Acher's employee's were there including Jake's aunt Vicki and uncle Ray.

We got to see a magician who was really good and shocked us all with a card trick, Jake goto participate. I would of took a picture but no camera's were allowed :( After a great dinner Jake and I wondered around a bit and then headed home.

Me and my honey...It was so cold outside.
Jake and I with his aunt Vicki and uncle Ray. Thank you Cindy and Russ for a fun night oxoxox

Not a fun day for Jessica

Today I picked up Jessica from school and her teacher told me that Jessica had been complaining about her "new cavity". Our friends that were visiting pointed out the spot and it was one of the tooths that was filled about 8 months ago. It looked horrible! So I called around to find someone to get her in ASAP. Thanks to good friends I was able to call a couple of places and I got her in to Adventure Dental. Now this dentist office is AWESOME. They had video games in the waiting room tv's that hang above you so you can watch a movie and the dentist can work on your teeth. Yeah, I need to tell my dentist to upgrade, all I see when I get dental work is up his nose.

So after a fun time in the waiting room with Kaelyn and Natalia (being sarcastic here) the dentist tells me that we should pull the tooth and put a spacer in. The first thing I thought was oh great Jessica is gonna freak out then I thought how much is this going to cost me. The dentist did the procedure with laughing gas and some knubing stuff and she did excellent. When I came back in the room she was crying a little and I asked her what was wrong she said "the kids at school are going to make fun of me". I asked her why and she said "because I have no tooth". Just so you know this is one in the back of her mouth.

After all the fuss she was telling everyone that came over to visit tonight about her missing tooth

This is the end result. She is never getting candy again....She is my little Miss Willy Wonka~

Letter's to Santa

It's that time to find out what the girls want from Santa, so we got out the crayons and paper and started to make our list.

Emma, Kaelyn and Jessica were hard at work. Jessica now wants a Snuggie for Christmas, she has no clue what that is but her new friend Emma told her all about it. It was really nice to have Jake's old missionary companion and his family to visit with us for the weekend. Time to mail out these letter's, the girls were so excited that Santa was going to drop by and get them. They even put the flag up on the mail box.

This is Jessica's letter: Dear Santa .....Radio, make-up....love Jessica. This was short and sweet~

A trip to the mall to see Santa

Today we took a ride to see Santa at the mall and get a few pictures. Some friends from out of town joined us for the fun Daddy with Talia, she refused to look at the camera.

Sister love. They had fun touching everything in line, at least they stopped for a photo. The kids new found friend Emma....She is a little cutie!
Talia is acting out at a young age. Everytime we say "say cheese" this is what we get. What a ham!

We need to work on our picture faces.

Happy Thanksgiving...

Hope everyone has a relaxing Thanksgiving....

I just want to say that I am so thankful for my husband and kids. Sometimes you forget the little things and get wrapped up in the not so important things. I am very blessed to have all that I do.

To start off our morning we watched a little bit of the Macy's Day parade. The girls loved it! They kept screaming from the other room "Mommy, you have to see this". We got to go to my sister inlaw's mom's house for some wonderful Thanksgiving dinner, and to top it off the girls played a little bit of ring around the rosie. Nothing like some pie and whip cream, only problem is they only at the whip cream.
After a great time with family we headed to California City with my brother and his wife to go dirtbiking. Is was a little cold and the kids wanted me to take a picture. It was so cold I think it hurt her to smile here. Jessica had a hard time with it being so dark, so my wonderful brother thought it would be funny to tell her that he would bring the moon out for light and mooned her. Yeah after that one the girls had the giggles and I could not get them to be. Thank you Lorenzo!

Riding the 50 with daddy. Kaelyn did not want to get off.

Jessica and Uncle Renzo, I think this is one of my favorite picture's.

Our little family picture, this should of been our Christmas card haha

Memories

From time to time I think about things that have happened over the years and I always say I need to write them down. I am going to add to this list as I go so that I don't forget.

*I remeber when the doctor was telling me that I was ready to push and meet my new baby (Jessica) and I was like "Oh wait, I'm not ready to be a mom". I was so scared and didn't know what to do. Then when I saw her I was like wow, I baked a cute baby and that fear went away.

*When I met Jakes family for the first time I was so excited to be able to know such a happy family. Everyone got along and loved getting together. (times have changed haha)


*When Jake told me about getting into the JATC apprenticeship I was really scared that he would not make more than he was making at Archer's. Then he got his first paycheck and I was VERY happy..hahaha

*Jake got hurt at work and his boss called me and told me where they were taking him. I started to cry and stress out. When I got there he had great co workers that were in the waiting room and I was able to go back there. He had me take a picture of his leg and then he yelled at me because the girls and I painted his toe nails blue the night before and he didn't realize it till that day when the doctor took his work boot off.

*Jessica's first day of Kindergarten. I was so sad that she was going to be at school all day and I was sad she was growing up....I even cried!

*Kaelyn and Jessica were screaming in the kitchen about a spider and I walked in there and freaked out and said "Oh S*&#" because it scared me and all you hear coming from Talia's room was the same words I said over and over again. Jake walked in the room and said "Nice one Fran"...

*When Jake tried so hard to propose to me and kept running into so many obstacles. He finally gave up and came to my house and got on one knee at the front door and asked me to marry him...I was in my PJ's and all I could do is cry! He gave me a heart shaped jewelry box with the LA Temple engraved on it with my ring in it.

*Jessica got to be on the tv show ER and my mother inlaw was able to take her that day. Jessica was child number 11 and her tv mom was rushed into the ER after getting in a car accident. The tv mom was pregnant again...I could not help but think "Is she Mormon?" haha Well Jessica got a moment in the spot light where the Australian doctor kneeled down and said " And you must be Daisy, your mom talks alot about you" and Jessica smiled and nodded.....I was so excited, thanks to Jake's cousin Misty I have a copy of the show.

*Jessica was ready to kick the soccer ball to start the game and she looks over at me knods her head and gave me a thumbs up. It was as if she was telling me I'm going to dominate this game mama or maybe it was if I make a goal I get candy...haha

*Jessica came up to Jake and said "Daddy you need to shave your head, you look like a girl with a bald spot" After jessica made that comment Jake was in the bathroom with the shaver giving Jessica dirty looks. He even let her help and she got a little crazy and started to shave Jake's arm hair. I told him that it looks like he got in a cat fight. I could stop laughing at him, he says Jessica likes to torture him just like her mom...hahaha

more to come!

Family picture's

I finally got family picture's and they turned out really nice....The kids were so GOOD~ I was amazed to say the least.I love this picture with my husband. He is such a wonderful man, I look at picture's of us from time to time and it cracks me up. We are still the same as we were when we got married.

Talia was so into the book picture and it came out really good.

This is my beautiful family!

This is my little monkey's
Again my girl's did such a great job and they came out really well. The people taking the picture's were impressed with them....