We had such a fun Christmas year. Here's a quick picture of all the grandkids with my parents. **Not pictured, a brand new baby girl who came 4 days after Christmas. We never can seem to have all our family in a picture at once!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Christmas
We had such a fun Christmas year. Here's a quick picture of all the grandkids with my parents. **Not pictured, a brand new baby girl who came 4 days after Christmas. We never can seem to have all our family in a picture at once!
Snow in Sacramento?
So I didn't believe anybody one Sunday night a few weeks back when they said that it would be snowing early the next morning. In California....snow?? Even with my doubts though, I asked Brian if there was snow on the ground, to wake me up when he got up.
Well, the sun was slowly rising when I was shaken awake the next morning and looked out the window to powdered sugar like dust outside everywhere. It was so exciting! I threw on a jacket and some shoes and grabbed the camera. I wish now I would have made a tiny snowman as it melted a couple hours after it fell, but there was enough on Brian's car to write in. Glad I could see the phenomenon that happens every ten years here in Sacramento.
Well, the sun was slowly rising when I was shaken awake the next morning and looked out the window to powdered sugar like dust outside everywhere. It was so exciting! I threw on a jacket and some shoes and grabbed the camera. I wish now I would have made a tiny snowman as it melted a couple hours after it fell, but there was enough on Brian's car to write in. Glad I could see the phenomenon that happens every ten years here in Sacramento.
DISNEYLAND
I really don't have much else to say about this. The pictures really do capture what a fun time we had. It was our little nieces' first time to the magical kingdom and both sides of their family got to come except one couple. We played at Disneyland and California adventure for 3 days together and had a blast! A couple moments to highlight....
The first day we had to document the beginning of the adventures: THE TRAM RIDE IN! That's always the maiden voyage of the trip to the park. Sadly, after about 3 pictures on the tram, my camera battery died. LOVELY! Luckily there were about 12 other cameras there to capture the fun so we didn't miss out on the memories.
Another exciting thing at the park was Brian heard Ryan Gosling from the Notebook was riding Tower of Terror. While we were waiting in line to watch Aladdin Megan ran over and waited till he got off and snapped a quick picture. EXCITING! We also saw the blind guy from last season of American Idol like 2 hours later....Obviously not as cool since I couldn't even tell you his name.
I can't get enough of this last picture! We were at Disneyland the first day of their holiday season, so we saw the Christmas parade and then they had holiday fireworks so we camped out at like 6...(Brian's parents parked it a couple hours before that) right in front of the castle to watch the great show. Well, as it started to get later and later, people would barge through anywhere they could and end up getting stuck near our large group. So, Brian and his dad linked hands and formed a path for people to walk in so they would stop trampling over us and our stuff. All they needed were the reflector sticks and people would think they were employees! We pretended like we didn't know them, but secretly we were very thankful!
Friday, December 11, 2009
Halloween
So Halloween kinda loses it's sparkle when you're too old to trick-or-treat and don't have kids that enjoy the fun, so some of my family got together with little ones and we ate scones and drank apple cider and then walked it off while the kiddos got candy.
Landon's kids were fairies...so cute...and little Sam Sam was Indiana Jones complete with a whip. After seeing the loot they came away with, I was tempted to exploit little 3 month Cyrus to get some goodies. They had so much candy, their pumpkins were too heavy for them to carry, so Brian ran back and came to the rescue with grocery bags to lighten their loads.
When I was a kid, we went for quantity, not quality, and I remember crying one year when my older brothers totally ditched me a few houses down. Sad I know. BUT, our favorite part of the night was coming home, and piling our candy in a mound, and then sorting it out by variety; candy bars here, smarties there, and then there was the pile we were willing to trade! And the bartering began. We would spend the next hour deciding whether a Milky Way was worth 3 tootsie rolls or 4 and you practically had to PAY someone to take that orange and black wrapped peanut butter taffy off your hands. Definitely some fun memories.
It was fun living through the little ones and they were so excited when they found someone had given them their favorite candy! So cute!
The Crew.
They needed some help saying trick-or-treat. They were really good at ringing the doorbell and I think stunned when someone came to the door. It took a block of houses and then they were pros!
New best buddies. They totally did this on their own and waited for one another. It was pretty cute.
Here are the traditional Hodnett family "look how big my pile of free loot is" pictures!
Landon's kids were fairies...so cute...and little Sam Sam was Indiana Jones complete with a whip. After seeing the loot they came away with, I was tempted to exploit little 3 month Cyrus to get some goodies. They had so much candy, their pumpkins were too heavy for them to carry, so Brian ran back and came to the rescue with grocery bags to lighten their loads.
When I was a kid, we went for quantity, not quality, and I remember crying one year when my older brothers totally ditched me a few houses down. Sad I know. BUT, our favorite part of the night was coming home, and piling our candy in a mound, and then sorting it out by variety; candy bars here, smarties there, and then there was the pile we were willing to trade! And the bartering began. We would spend the next hour deciding whether a Milky Way was worth 3 tootsie rolls or 4 and you practically had to PAY someone to take that orange and black wrapped peanut butter taffy off your hands. Definitely some fun memories.
It was fun living through the little ones and they were so excited when they found someone had given them their favorite candy! So cute!
The Crew.
They needed some help saying trick-or-treat. They were really good at ringing the doorbell and I think stunned when someone came to the door. It took a block of houses and then they were pros!
New best buddies. They totally did this on their own and waited for one another. It was pretty cute.
Here are the traditional Hodnett family "look how big my pile of free loot is" pictures!
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