January

The most exciting thing that happened in January was that our passes weren't blacked out at Disneyland anymore! We were super excited to be back! Kailey and Maddie love Small World and Winnie the Pooh!
Rachel and I were so excited to take the big girls to Disneyland one Friday night and leave the babies at home. We were planning on hitting up all the big rides like Space Mountain and Thunder Mountain that we usually have to do rider switch on because we only had our big girls! We had a blast, though the night didn't go quite as planned. Our little girls got tired much earlier than we wanted, yet we kept going as long as possible. We carried poor little sleeping Sabrina through the Big Thunder Mountain until a worker made us put her down and wake her up for the ride. We ended up having a blast and the girls loved being together with no little siblings to slow them down.

December

So, once again I'm way too far behind on my posts. It's definitely way past time to update our blog. So, backtracking a few months, we'll start with December. It was a crazy month--Kailey had a school performance, Chad's parents came to visit us, and of course we had Christmas! We opted to stay here in California the whole holiday season, and though we missed family, it was much more relaxing then previous years.
My two pretty girls helping me decorate the Christmas tree
Kailey's first ever school program!
Nana and Papa came to visit us to watch her
So did Great Grandma Birrell
Two of her best school friends--Vaitai and Angelica
My beautiful girls in their matching Christmas dresses
At the temple on Christmas Eve

Posing in their annual Christmas jammies
Opening their stockings
Scoping out their piles of presents
Kailey finally got the scooter she's been asking for
And Maddie got her sandbox
Fancy Christmas hair