A White Christmas in So Cal

We spent Christmas in So Cal with the families. We went the Sunday before Christmas and the festivities quickly began.

Candy Trains with London and Jaydon

On Monday I made candy trains with the little girls and Mom.
That night we went to a beautiful dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Lingy's. Camie and the girls, Mom and Dad, Jared, D and Caden all join us. We celebrated Diana, Jared and Dad's birthdays. Grandma made a beautiful dinner and really cool cakes. She is so talented.

On Tuesday we had a Fondue Party with Tim's family. We had so much fun trying everything out.

White Trash Trailer Park Gingerbread House

Wednesday...Christmas Eve we had a nice dinner with Tim's traditional fried chicken at his parents house with the family. After, we headed to Jared's new place for our gingerbread contest. Jared and D did the North Pole, our serious competition. Grandpa Lingy did the Northridge Earthquake, unexpected of course. Grandma Lingy did a traditional look. Then there's my mom, the most competetive of all...Venice. But nothing topped our, the White Trash Trailer Park.

We won this year and already have our plan for next year's competition.
Gingerbread contest with the fam

Then it came my favorite time...Christmas morning. We started at my Mom and Dad's in the morning with everyone. After that we headed to Tim's parents for the rest of the day. We had a blast with all the family..and a LOT of food...AGAIN!

Caden and JaredTim and BrandynMom makes the best Christmas breakfast..every year!We Love Christmas Morning!He is so spoiled!

So moral of the story...
Get to the gym BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER a So Cal Christmas Trip

Our hairy man is 3!

If you know us, you know we have turned into weird dog people. Our dog is freakin awesome! He is so much better, and cheaper, than kids. We celebrated his 3rd birthday on November 9. That's the day we adopted him, 2 years ago. We gave him a hair cut on his big day also and I think he still hasn't forgiven us for it.

He's a party animal!

Gobble Gobble

I Love the holidays! We just got back from a week in So Cal with the families. We did the Tomseth family Thanksgiving with about 60 of them on Saturday. My family left town for Thanksgiving so the rest of the week was with Tim's family. We had a great time full of sleeping and eating.

That's my brother making me proud! Later he top it off with karaoking Daddy Yanky.


Achilles got into the pie AGAIN this year! Our first year we got him, he was new to the family and ate nothing for a week. We left him alone with pies and he ate the entire pecan pie. This year he got into the pumpkin pie. Much better choice if you ask me.




We snuck away for a night to downtown San Diego. It was so great. It reminded us how much we miss SD. We're so wild, we got hyped up on energy drinks and hung out by the fire. We are some crazy kids!





Most importantly, Thanksgiving means we can finally put up our Christmas Decorations

Here we go...

I finally gave in to this whole blog thing..but I have no idea what I'm doing. Hopefully I can figure it out and soon share our exciting lives.