Holiday's are very excited and full of fun and adventure! Love the time we get to be with each other, more family and great friends who take us in as family as well! Every blog is a lot, but ok... I may have to take some verbiage short cuts on this one.
Visit to gym from Shoenberg's led to a fun visit with Sadie at home. We then visited neighborhood Christmas decorations including coach Denise's house. We took family walks and wrapped gifts for family and friends. We finally installed our new dishwasher which we had fun doing together! Cienna also made a winter painting of Snoopy and Winchester to bring to our next adventure to Greg and Jackie's cabin in Big Bear.
Prior to that we went to the Snow's for a big Christmas Eve party. There was a cookie contest and a white Elephant Gift exchange for the adults. Great time as always with a cheese-less lasagna for Mom thanks to Auntie Kimmie!
Christmas morning was as magical as ever. We love being together in the morning cuddling on our bed and watching a movie before the big day of excitement and cheer of Christmas with us and friends. After the morning we went on a walk together and then went to Auntie Kimmie and Uncle Keith's for a gift exchange. Cienna went with mom to walk around the neighborhood giving out hand made paintings that she worked hard on to those out and about. We also made our way to Heartwell Park where Cienna got to meet Balloo. The parrot we had previously talked about and they had a great time together on our walk! Later that evening we went to Joan and Larry's to enjoy being part of their family as always for so many occasions! It means a lot for us to be invited to such special times with them!
The next few days we enjoyed some of the gifts we got from each other and enjoying each other putting things together, playing games and making food. The girls had one last night at gym before we left to our next adventure in Big Bear! Both girls did their bar release skill on bars without a spot from a coach for the first time!
Dogs were again in the back seat of the truck with the girls...poor puppies! They all had fun and the road trip was easy. We loved getting to Greg and Jackie's cabin playing cards, learning card tricks, and making tortilla soup! We were preparing for a fun day of Snowboarding. It turned out to be a bikini wearing shorts type of snowboarding but we made the full day out of it! We all mastered the skill of snowboarding the way we want to and went home for pasta and meatballs! The puppies had a great evening walk with all of us and a fun night. Dad took them home the next day as Mom and the girls took a 5 mile walk to the village to get ice cream and enjoy the scenery! On the way back to the cabin Daddy was on his way back as well and picked us up to get back to the cabin for the evening for more family time and to set of for the next adventure in the morning.
We were cleaning the cabin and off to see The Sklenicka's! The New Year was upon us. We started with picking up pine needles, replacing air filters, showing off card tricks that we had previously learned, and all the kids, and adults, playing together. That first night ended with fun bedtime stories and Joe and Daddy staying up late as always enjoying each others company! Then it was New Years Eve! There was chocolate bombs, long walks, pickle ball, park time, and Kan Jam in the back yard. We did movies, VR, then Mom and Cienna passed time taking outside pictures just to stay up till midnight while Kaylee decorated Dad and Joe. We made barely made it to midnight but had a great time together.
After packing again in the morning we had an easy trip home on New Years Day (Grammy's Birthday) one more week of vacation we had so much fun! After one day back at gym a 6 person sleepover was in the works to finish up the Holiday show that they have kept as a tradition. This included a night time neighborhood adventure as well as the next day adventure to Heartwell park. They even took in a seventh member (Auralia) part way through the filming. The finale included a video at the Main Y that their gym is affiliated with!
Meanwhile Dad had been diligantly working to restore our amazing BBQ/Smoker! It looks like it is brand new! Next up was a Three Musketeers sleepover just to keep us all busy. Then the girls were super excited to take Jen up on her Christmas present to take them shopping! They had such a great time and came back with some new clothes that they love!
Time to go back to school and work, but fun continues. We had family visits to look forward too! For Ashley's graduation she got to bring her friend Emily along with Trevor and Sam to Disney for a couple days. We started with just the Marty's and Poppa, amazingly the Natal's were also here since Megan was doing the Disney Marathon. So all of us got to spend time together with lunch at LBX and then dinner at home. Natal's went back to the hotel to prepare for the run and more fun at Disneyland and before Emily and Sam got here the next day the rest of us went for a beautiful day on the bay renting a Duffy Boat. We brought lunch and enjoyed the sun before heading home. The next day Ashley, Emily, Trevor, and Sam headed to there Disney Adventure.
Mom worked from home since the girls had the holiday off and Dad, Poppa, Mike, and Dana went to the LA car museum. Crazy looking cars and they enjoyed them all. Meanwhile Kaylee got to hang out with Amiah for the day and Cienna with Francesca to work on their Backstreet Bistro for school as well as just hang out together.
As family departed in the RV, we were getting ready to replenish the kitchen : ) and get ready for the next week before finals and a 16th Birthday!
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