End of 2012...

Some of the fun we had before 2012 slipped away from us-

The wagon has yet to go outside. Once it does, it can never come back in.

I was dying when Z thought it would be a great place to watch a show.

He did not want me to move the couches back.

 Our little mommy. She likes to always have two.

Twins are a piece of cake for this girl. :)

Z's choice of outfit.

It is totally Lee as a kid. Except he would be in camo shorts and

cowboy boots. No worries that it's winter here.

 Playdough fun.

Z was super cute telling me that the big pile

was french fries, piled on top of his toys, held down by ropes,

that were in the back of the truck, all of which were on the way to the cabin.

Saying goodbye to Grandpa Jim. 

We sure loved seeing him.

  Tilden Park with cousins Kya and Evie.

The girls were a little more scared of the cow. Ha.

 On our way to Tildon park. 

We stopped to see the view of SF.

It was super clear! And so pretty! But it was also FREEZING!

Cute kids eating breakfast.

Little Jane needs to be just like her brother.

And when he left the table she needed two boxes. :)

New Years Eve Day we headed into San Francisco for the day.

We had a ton of fun. Our kids love the city and were really excited about it.

We had a packed day full of fun.

We saw Christmas decorations, rode the cable cars (first time for everyone in our little

family!) had a delicious lunch, walked around the wharf, rode the carousal, checked out some museums, had a dance party at the ice skating rink for our music video Hal was making (yes, people were coming out of restaurants to watch), and enjoyed being outdoors.

     

 

Doing some leftover Christmas crafts.

 

Saying goodbye to cousins...

These girls were so cute with Jane.

Jane loved to sit on Kya's lap and read books. 

Christmas Day

Christmas morning we started off bright and early with Zac's 6 o'clock

usual wake up time. We held him off until around 7 when Jane woke up.

I really wish the videos we have of them coming down the stairs were not

so long so I could post them. Basically they were way into the cookies that

Santa had left and Z loved that he drank all the milk.

After going over the cookies, Zac runs over to the wagon that Grandpa and Grandma Passey got

for the kids, and says, "this is just what I wanted!" He was so happy trying to show Janes her Santa

gifts, all while she is still caught up with trying to eat the left over cookies. He was so happy 

about her baby and stroller. His stocking was a big hit too for him too. "This is what I was

talking about!" (Said for almost everything.) It was pretty cute.

Jane was about done after stockings. She really just wanted to eat breakfast

and had finished off the cookies and fruit snakes from her stocking, so she got

to sit at the table eating yogurt, while Zac was still running around

opening anything he could.

Baby doll in hand with left over cookies. One happy girl. :)

 

We went over to Grandpa and Grandma Coopers the rest of the 

morning. It was raining, so Zac wanted to test out his new rain boots and umbrella.

That evening we played dodge ball at the church (super fun!)

and drove around looking at lights. This was one of the houses we got out to look in 

their garage. 

Christmas Eve

We had a fun Christmas staying home in California this year.
We were lucky enough to have Great-Grandpa Jim join us from Canada,
Uncle Hal, Aunt Jessica, Kya, and Evie from Idaho.
It was fun to have all of the Cooper siblings together.

For Christmas Eve we had a wonderful delicious dinner.
Zac and Evie sat at the "kid" table.
They did pretty good for really just wanting to run around.
They were pretty cute with their Santa hats on.

We did the nativity story with the little people nativity set.
Zac was in charge of the shepherds, who when it was their turn,
drove them to the nativity in the school bus.

After the nativity story we did a mini talent show.
We had some musical numbers.
One of which Zac and Evie did jingle bells.
Again, the bus was a major part in the song with the bells on it,
so he would lift it up and down to make it ring.
We sang it a few times. :)

Zachary was a little more challenging (to say the least) 

with the holidays. We were partied out by the end of the night. 

We pretty much got in our new PJ's and ran home to get

Santa some cookies and milk...

carrots for the reindeer (I was lucky we had some! 

Zac told us the reindeer needed some driving home.)

We were all dying when we put the PJ's on Zac.

He looked like a little elf running around.

He is such a big kid. 5T PJ's just barely fit him!