Christmas in San Diego 2007

We spent Christmas this year in San Diego at mom and dads house. The kids had fun with all their cousins. We played at a park in Coronado, walked around the tide pools at sunset cliffs, saw the lights on pepper drive, walked around the san Diego temple to see the lights, all the girls got pedicures, silver stand beach, ate at el indios of course, sea port village, got yogurt mill yum, christmas eve dinner at the Cahoons, had a pajama gift exchange christmas eve, Sea World, and hung out at the house the rest of the time to let all the cousins play together. And of course food, food, food, when Dad goes shopping for food he comes home with enough food for an army. We had a great time, the cahoons, monsons, jensens, nelsons, thunstroms, dyers and mom and dad were all in San Diego to spend the holidays together. Everyone was there but the Petersons and the Storrs. So it was a ton of crazy fun. Christmas was great the kids had a blast opening up their presents. Its always fun to see what random present they like best. Kenzies was probably her shopping cart, baby doll and high school musical DVD's. Ethans was probably the Disney pixar cars, and the fire engine truck that grandpa storrs bought for the boys. The weather was beautiful and sunny! These pictures should show you why I love San Diego so much and why they call it one of Americans finest cities.
to me it is kinda weird to have christmas in a place that does not resemble the cold or have any links to anything cold other than ice cream and frozen yogurt. when it is in the 70's though you can't beat that. maybe this weekend we will head up into the mountains and get our fix of snow for the season. we drove down to San Diego on Friday the 22nd and we were there for an entire week before we came back for a few days and headed back down for new years. gathering a large family together in any place is always full of some sort of drama but that aside it was a blast to see all who made it down. with all of the preparation on getting down on Friday i managed to leave my bag of clothes at home. although i could have roughed it and purchased a small thrift store wardrobe they voted that i head back and get my bag, and not to forget the toothpaste and pit stick. it was fun to see the kids playing with each other, a few fights but that was just mainly between ethan and makenzie. oh there was one time when ethan decided to show his cousin chase what teeth have come in. from the mark on chase's forearm it looks like almost all have come in. karma came back to ethan when we were at silver strand and ethan managed to trip right as a small wave broke in front of him and he got soaked. that was after joe and i had walked down the beach a quarter mile away from the group. justice would have been served if chase had pushed him but either way his goose bump body. i stripped him down just to get him out of the wet clothes and then i plopped him in his car seat when we finally got back. oh yeah we even had a lauren sighting. she came down and brought her "dyer" treats. a bunch of holiday candy that she whipped up. we got in some basketball christmas day. no boyfriends were hurt in this years game. i did come to the realization that i am older and slower than i was in 1995, but who isn't.