Make a Flake!

 Are you or your kids bored?  Go to this website to make a virtual snowflake! http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/index.html

Or make your own snowflakes with real paper and scissors!  Here's how:http://www.squidoo.com/make-your-own-paper-snowflakes

Knotts Berry Farm Fun

On the 28th and 29th of November, we went to Knotts Berry Farm!  They had Fire and Law Enforcement days, which meant that Justin, Trevor & I got in free and Kaylee and Alison got in for only $17 each!

Our camera shot with Snoopy!

 I usually wouldn't let my kids have cotton candy, but I made an exception since we were on vacation!

Look at that big wagon!

Christmas tree lighting ceremony show

Messy stuff!  Good thing there was a bathroom nearby!

Kaylee and Alison in jail!

Trevor too!  And their crimes?  For being too cute!

 Another picture from the Christmas tree lighting ceremony

I love it when people volunteer to take our family's picture!

 Merry-go-round!

Kaylee was actually too tall to go on this ride but they let her on anyway!

Justin and Kaylee on the Sidewinder ride.

Kitty race!

Looking out of our hotel

Another Peanut's character show about the importance of giving instead of getting for Christmas.  Awww how touching!

Alison on Camp Snoopy Bus ride

The girls and I on the Ferris wheel

On the Galloping Goose train

Gr8 Sk8 ride

Another hotel room shot!

Go Kaylee and Alison!

More stuff on stage.

Snoopy stamp!  The next day when we came, we got Woodstock stamps.

On the little train ride

 Kids on little train ride too!

Kaylee and Karine on Sidewinder

Sally, Linus, Lucy, and Charlie

Trevor loved this ride!

He liked this one too!

And this one!

And this one too!  Lets just say that Trevor loves rides!

This is the view from the top of the stagecoach ride!

Rules for stage coach riders from 1877

There is Justin on the Windseeker ride, which takes you 301 feet above the ground and you go 25-30 mph!

The kids and I had lots of fun and I think Justin did too-especially riding the high thrill rides!  My favorite ride of all was The Silver Bullet which is similar to Top Gun from Great America if you have ever been on that before.

Termites!

When we came back from our trip to Idaho, we found these termite tubes coming up in the middle of Trevor's bedroom!  It's so weird that they build these tunnels straight up in the middle of nowhere to try to find wood!  A termite guy came and pulled up the carpet and sprayed some foamy stuff in a crack in the concrete where the termites came up through!  We also had some tubes in our bedroom closet and under the garden tub.

Our Trip Up North

 Justin had 2 weeks off for vacation in November so we decided to 

visit my sister Laura and her family and her brand new baby Luke in Idaho!

See the icicles on her house?  We never see stuff like this at home in Arizona!  Cool!

Kaylee and Alison

Justin and Kaylee pausing for a picture while making a snowman.

Look at this piece of ice Kaylee found!

That board on the right was used to roll the 2nd ball up on the snowman because it was too heavy to lift!

Now for the snowman's head!

Perfecting the snowman's form

Family pose

Laura and her son Luke!

Karine and her nephew Luke!

Kaylee and her cousin Luke!

Trevor

Shooting guns

On our way home we visited my Grandma.  I wish we could've stayed longer though!