Happy Holidays

Hope you had a Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!

love the Jackson Family

So this is Christmas

Christmas Eve in front of the fire


James loving his new found freedom- crawling
After raining for almost a week it finally stopped and this was in the sky
We checked out " Grinchmas" at Universal Studios with our yearly pass

Real (well the snow machine)snow and snowball fights
the the The Grinch and his dog Max





This week we went to the LA science museum with our friends Heather and Jacob

learning about the body
doing a little heart surgery
Christmas festivities in Burbank.
decorated train
Ellie's Polar express party at school
in their PJ's
eating breakfast



Caden's turn

On the Move

James can move! Just in time for Christmas!

Now we have our own human vacuum.

Good work Jameser!

Showtime

Christmas time performances:

School
Ellie as the Angel
Ellie's Kindergarten
Ellie's special part in holding the dreidel in her Hanukkah song
Jocelyn lining up with her class before the performance
first grade
Ellie and Jocelyn's Ballet show

Last day of swimming lessons

James 1st Haircut

James turned 8 months on the 4th of December! He is starting to show us his cute personality! He has 3 teeth now. Loves to eat! Smiles a lot. Is close to crawling. (He gets on all four and rocks or drops to his belly scoots then gets back on all fours or on hands and feet) He Loves to cuddle. Likes to pull hair or hold on to it. His first word was " MaMa". Loves playing with his brother and sisters. Such a fun little guy. We love our JamesE.Before haircut
What are you doing Monkey?
Dad is giving James his first haircut. James did really good.
admiring himself in the mirror
The baby hair
Finished! Looking good James!
Caden got a haircut too and here he is showing off his "Big" muscles
Jocelyn holding James

December WHAT?

We have had some Amazing warm days these last 3 for 4 days. Today hit 82 in the valley. We did a little surfing in Newport on Saturday! I love the warm weather! It makes us wonder a little bit how we lived in Minnesota for 5 years and also why are we moving to Utah? I was going to title my blog Minnesotans don't hate us cause we are warm. Then i read some friends in Minnesota blogs and i really did not want to make people feel bad-( cause it is blizzard there.) Just know our home is always open when you get the need to defrost! It is however hard to feel like it is Christmas with out any snow! So Family and friends enjoy your white Christmas! Ours may be a little sandy.