SNOWING in SOCAL!

It was extra special to see that it was snowing on New Years Eve! It was magical for the kids to wake up and see the snow! We happened to have friends staying the night from Wyoming. They see way too much snow there so they weren't super impressed at California's timing in deciding to snow!  But our kids were in Heaven playing in it the next day! 

We were dog sitting Mallie, the Mcdowells dog, so she got to come in to get away from the cold. 

Merry Christmas 2014

I love Christmas time! The kids woke up to their presents from Santa- Ashton and Tera got roller blades and Ryder got a blow up Polar bear because he is so fascinated by the blow up characters our neighbors put out on their lawns for the holidays. He is always asking to go walk and see them.

Ashton is practicing his minecraft skills with the new mine craft book he got.

Tera loved her beginning sewing kit she got where she was able to sew a stuffed animal puppy dog.

Mazzi loved all of her crafts and her hair coloring kit.

Mazzi's 6- black and white party!

Mazzi spent months planning her 6th birthday party! She was insistent that it be black and white themed. I didn't know how she expected to do this, but she explained that she wanted panda bears, Dalmatians, zebras and penguins to be the decor. She also described wanting only black and white food and for everyone to wear black and white. It ended up being a a very fun party to plan because it was so different. 

They played a lot of fun games like- walk like a penguin race, guess how many spots on teh Dalmatian, decorate a penguin cupcake, and pin the tail on the zebra.

All the girls looked so cute in their black and white best! 

Happy birthday to this feisty, social, silly, animated little girl!