Birthday prep

For Evie's second birthday we were going to have the party at a place called jumpoline, but we decided against it. After that party we decided that for her third party we would celebrate it somewhere not at home. We remembered the jumpoline place and decided to try it out before renting it out. 

Evie loved it and it wore her out so it got my vote... although when we got there we had to sign a form stating that if your child died or got seriously injured you couldn't sue them. Umm... Yikes. Hahaha. Jason remembered I had found a couple of places that might be fun for a birthday party last year and decided to look them up again and we would decide between them. One of the options from last year was called monkey'ing around (or something like that), it was like a bunch of kid playhouse structures you could let kids run around in. Then Jason found a place called lollipop park. 

Kids jumping area (there were also ropes on each side you could climb and then slide down the trampoline).

Dodge ball.

He showed me pictures of the Lollipop park and we went a couple days later. It's a little amusement park type place for little kids. It's inside a family fun center that has an ice skating rink, a restaurant, go carts, bouncy obstacle course, etc... 

They had spinning teacups

Little clowns!

They are both great places and we had a hard time choosing between the two. In the end we let Evie decide. And she chose.... 

Lollipop park

Jackson 3 ish months

Wearing a little baseball outfit thing.

Big guy with his elephant his sister picked out for him. Wearing size 6 month tracksuit.

Christmas 2013

Hanging out on the couch holding hands.

So tired.

We went to the pet store and this puppy was one month older than Jackson. 

Evie loves playing with the puppies.

Santa came. The kids got entirely too many presents. 

Eve and Wall-e mugs. 

Evie and her loot. 

Jacks and his loot. Evie got all the books and gave this mother goose treasury to her brother. It was very sweet. (He also got a new carseat and an o'ball set) 

We got to talk with Kate on Christmas! 

Hanging out in their Jammies. 

Jason's sister got us these ornaments! They are so cute!

Evie was showing Jackson how to play a game. 

Big guy stretching out on the bed in his size 12 month jammies. 

Evie and her mooshka sing around the rosie doll she got from aunt Quita. 

Jason's aunt sent the kids each and outfit. This is Jacks' he looks so dashing. 

Evie in her "Big Sister" shirt and pants.

We had a great Christmas at home with our little family. It was a great somewhat relaxing day. We hung out in our jammies and watched Christmas movies and played with toys. In the afternoon we made dinner and got to talk with Kate. We are so blessed to be able to celebrate Christmas and hope that we can remember Christ throughout the year.

Disneyland day two Part two

We spent $8 on that balloon. It was well worth it. It kept Evie from a meltdown a couple of times. It was wonderful. 

Jackson was pooped!

Evie in her "crib" with her balloon right before we popped it. 

Sleeping again. 

At the airport waiting for our flight to Arizona. 

In Arizona, waiting for our flight to Denver. I was pleasantly surprised to find that really close to our gate was a children's play area. 

While playing, Evie made a friend at the airport, his name was Aldo. Pretty sure the dog was on duty, but was kind enough to say hello to Evie.

So tired and ready to go home. 

We reserved super shuttle to get us home from the airport... Well, we waited and waited for the guy, he finally showed up, and it was our turn to get on... Then he said we couldn't use two carseats... We have two children, of course we're gonna use two car seats! He kept telling us one of the kids had to sit on a lap because there wasn't enough room. This really pissed us off. So he wanted us to choose which child we would keep safe in the event of a crash?! I don't think so! I'm too lazy to write the rest so i took a screenshot from when I posted on instagram.

Disneyland 2013 day two part one

We went on a couple of rides including the finding Nemo ride and the alice in wonderland ride. Jason was about to take Evie to ride the teacups and we saw Captain Hook. Evie is a big fan of Hook, so we had to stop and say hi. We followed him for a minute to catch up, he was taking a picture/signing someone's book when we caught up. Evie ran over to him and I took a couple of pictures of what happened.

Grabbed hands. Said hello.

Talking to him.

Then they started walking.

Some kids wanted to get pictures taken with Hook, but he kept walking. It was pretty funny.

Still walking. 

I got her back and she went on the teacup ride with Jason. 

She loved it!

 No one is home! She loves this door. 

Jackson just hanging out. 

We were the last in line to meet goofy before his lunch break. 

Pluto and Evie playing. 

Me and little chubs watching the mickey magic show... Don't remember what it was called. 

Best money spent in Disneyland. So awesome! I can't wait to get a frame for it so I can hang it up!

Watching the mickey magic show (not sure how these got out of order). 

We saw Beauty and the Beast at the story time theater. I didn't even know it existed! We went to the theater right after getting a dole pineapple whip... meh, I probably won't get one again, but it was worth the try. 

It was fantastic! Belle had the perfect voice that matched the movie voice extremely well! I was very impressed. 

We got to see santa!

On our way out of the park. Evie had removed her socks and shoes, she was ready to go. 

We stayed at the Ramada really close to the park. We were able to see the fireworks from our room. and the walk to and from the park was really quick and easy especially with the two kiddos.