Merry Christmas: December 24th, 25th and 26th

Christmas eve: The family playing bocce ball. It was a warm and beautiful day. After this we took the kids swimming.

 After swimming we had to get ready for church. Grandpa helping out...

 After a busy day outside the kids fell right to sleep. Now Santa can take care of buisness.

 Christmas Morning!

 Playing at the park after presents.

 After filling our belts we all piled into the golf cart and rode around the golf course looking at Christmas lights.

 December 26th: One of Olivia's Christmas presents was a trip to the American Girls doll store to get MaryEllen's hair done and ears pierced. She was pretty excited!

 Via picked blue studs for her ears and a sweat heart braid for her hair.

 Next stop...lunch and then to the Aquarium. 

After the Aquarium we went home and had supper, worked on our puzzle then we went to Red Mountain Church to look at Christmas lights.

Mesa, AZ: Christmas Vacation

Kids ready to start travel day.

 It is a rare occasion when these two get some McDonald's. 

 Ike trying out his McDonald's toy.

 Golf cart rides

 Swimming 

 Getting started on our puzzle. 2000 pieces sounded like a good idea in the store.....

 Denny and Ike went to the movies to watch Spiderman Into the Spiderverse. Gram, Gramps, Via and I hit up Dairy Queen and Walmart. Then we went for a walk and golf cart ride around the hood.

 After the boys got home we headed to the pickle ball courts and played for awhile. Me and mom with the kids then Mom and I against Dad and Denny.

Olivia's 2018 Holiday Dance Recital

Friday night dress rehearsal for Olivia's dance holiday show.  They didn't wear the antlers and arm covers for the show because they were falling off. They all looked adorable!

Sunday: All ready to head to the recital.

Sweet big brother!

Great show for all the dancers!

Beautiful flowers for our beautiful girl!  I gave Ike $20 dollars to go pick out flowers for her.  He came back with zero dollars and a stuffed bear holding a big bag of candy.  Thankfully, they left me trade it back in.  Silly brother!

Denny and Ike headed out right after she preformed because there was not enough seating and Denny's friend Kevin was in town, so we didn't get a pic with Denny.