This year we got to see Santa Claus at Disneyland. Not only did we see Santa, but Mrs. Claus and Santa's reindeer too! In this shot Connley is asking Santa for a Toy Story Woody for Christmas. He was so excited to see Santa and ask him for Woody.
So, was Connley a good boy this year? What could be in that present with the big red bow?!
Once the kids went down for their naps Jason and I spent our Christmas afternoon making this short film with some of the new toys we, I mean the kids, got for Christmas.
Exactly a year ago from today we had our Speirs Family Ugly Sweater Christmas Eve Dinner. I will miss not seeing my family for Christmas this year and their ugly sweaters. Christmas just isn't Christmas without ugly sweaters...oh, and family of course! So who do you think has the ugliest sweater? (You can't really see, but James is wearing a University of Utah sweater. haha!)
More Disneyland?! You're probably wondering if there is anything else we do besides go to Disneyland. Hmmm...nope, not really. I'm a little behind on posting these pictures. Okay, a lot behind. We went to Disneyland back in October with my mom, sister, brother, sister-in-law, and a bunch of their buddies. This trip was especially fun because the fact that Connley is now tall enough to ride the big rides! Yay! And the best part is he is also brave enough. Maybe because I didn't really give him a choice to be afraid. I just took him on the rides and told him how cool and fun they were and he thought they were cool and fun. So now when I ask him what his favorite rides are at Disneyland he tells me, "the Hotel (the Tower of Terror), Speedrace Train (Thunder Mountain), Space Mountain..." and of course Buzz Lighteryear, Finding Nemo, and Pirates are still on the list. I love my little boy!!! So, here are some pics from Connley's first experiences on these rides...
The Tower of Terror
Here's a closer look of his face. Haha! LOVE it! And yes, he still wants to ride the ride.
Here's Space Mountain. Wait. Where is Connley?! Well, he's sitting in the chair next to me. Can't see him at all. Yes, he's in the seat in front of my terrified, screaming sister. I imagine his face was somewhat like the one above.
The 2009 Foote family Halloween costumes are up! Well, literally. We did an 'Up' theme this year. We had our ward Trunk-or-Treat party this last Friday. Connley was Mr. Carl Fredrickson and Dalton was Russell the Junior Wilderness Explorer trying to earn his Assisting the Elderly merit badge. Of course there was also a floating house and lots of balloons involved. The boys played their parts so well. Connley loved being Mr. Fredrickson. So much in fact that today for church he wanted to be Carl again. I was able to convince him that the bow tie was enough and he didn't need the white hair or glasses. We had a blast! Now it's time to start planning for next year! :)
This is the best picture I was able to get of Carl and Russell together.
Carl Fredrickson
Russell the Junior Wilderness Explorer
(Notice Russell has a Wall-E sleeping bag on his backpack. :)
All of the kids at the party LOVED the house and balloons. Everyone wanted to take a turn holding it. Apparently I made it sturdy enough because it survived!
Russell kept going from table to table sitting next to different people. I told them he was just trying to earn his Assisting the Elderly badge. It was pretty funny.
What a grouchy old man...
Connley with his best buddy Tristan who was dressed up as the Tin Man.
After the party with their stash.
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Here's a couple of close up pictures of the house I made. It is made out of cereal boxes and just glued together and painted. Perfect resemblance, right? Well, it's the best I could do with only one day to complete it. (I was sick at the beginning of the week and ended up only having a few days to finish the costumes. It all worked out though.)
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And here's Connley this morning right before church sporting his Carl Fredrickson bow tie.
After a few fun filled days at Disneyland we finished off the week at the beach. We brought our camping grill and had hot dogs and hamburgers. A few of us went in the water and played while the rest stayed in cuddled under beach towels. It was a cool day at the beach, too cool for the people from Arizona.
Jason found these glasses while snorkling. Great find!
We had a perfect little setup for our BBQ...
Dalton got a hold of the grapes...and proceeded to eat them sandy. Mmm...
My mom and dad...
Action shot!
Connley and Grandpa
Dalton practicing his surfing...
Cold AZ girls...
Woofums!
Jon making "the Ultimate Woofum". I like to call it a 'Smoofum'. It's a Woofum and a S'more mixed in one. The best of both worlds. Yum! :)
The best part part about Woofums--besides eating them--is watching other people eat them...and getting pictures of other people eating them!
I love how Connley is just walking around the beach with his Woofum. I don't think he fully understands the concept of 'woofing-em'.
And that about wraps up our week with the Speirs family! The Foote family comes this week!
Last Thursday my family came out from Arizona and we spent the day with them at Disneyland. We had a blast! The kids loved it! Connley has already started asking when grandma is coming back to go to Disneyland. This last time he only asked me like five times a day! No joke. It begins again! Ahhhh! I'm glad he likes it so much. What a spoiled little boy! Speaking of spoiled, Aunt Jessie bought Connley his Mickey ears the last time we were at Disneyland so grandma bought Dalton a pair this time. These boys look so adorable and they love their Mickey ears!
Okay, so they had the most beautiful flowers at Disneyland. These are my favorite!
We woke up early so we could be there right as the gates opened. Dalton didn't last long. This is his morning nap...
This is everyone's reaction when we were watching the Star Wars Training Academy...
Jessie is really amazed! (Not posed at all:)
Hey, I caught a picture of my dad smiling! (For those of you that don't know him, it's not that he doesn't smile, it's just really hard to get a good smile from him when taking his picture. So pretty much I caught him off gaurd.)
I thought Jessie did a splendid job of taking this picture. Totally have to give her credit for it!
So this cute little Mickey Mouse outfit Dalton is wearing is a gift from grandma RaDean given to him when he was born. The funny thing is that it is a 3-6 month outfit. He is my peanut baby! Thanks grandma RaDean!
After lunch we were all ready for a nap. Connley fell asleep in the little umbrella stroller. He was hanging half way out but still managed to get a good nap in.
Jessie had the same problem.
Dalton on the other hand just woke up from his nap and was ready to go!
Toy Story Mania!
My super hero brother...
He's really tough!
Thanks for all the fun Disneyland memories everyone!
Connley and I built a space shuttle for him the other day. He kept sitting inside this box that I was meaning to throw away and decided that he was having so much fun with it that we should color it and make it something cool. So it is his NASA space shuttle, called Space Shuttle Connley. Once completed I had him sit in it and I pushed him around the apartment until I just about fell over dead (like after one minute!). So, that was our fun little project!
