Christmas in Arizona

After our Disneyland adventure, we all headed to Donelle's house for Christmas.  We opened presents on Christmas and Alex and I hit up some stores the day after for some Christmas sales.  We all loved spending time together and had a great time together.  Christmas Day we went out to the desert and rode four wheelers and went shooting.  I loved doing that!  I don't do that very often so it was fun and it was the first time that Alex had ever been shooting.  It is a Christmas tradition to see the Mesa Temple lights so we all did that the last night we were in Arizona.  Christmas was wonderful this year and couldn't have asked for anything better.

Opening presents.

Decorating cookies for Santa.

Opening Christmas presents. Santa found us!

Just love this picture!  Something was obviously really funny.

Shooting!

Temple lights.

DISNEYLAND

Our family decided to go to Christmas this year for Christmas.  I am so glad my Aunt Donelle had this wonderful idea!  Colton had never been to Disneyland before so I'm glad after 25 years he finally got to go!  The first day we were there went went back and forth from park to park from 8 in the morning when they opened to midnight when they closed.  Lets just say that was the longest day I have had in a long time!  It was a blast but we were dragging the next day.  I loved every minute of it though and had so much fun with the whole family.  We never get to do anything like this so it was great to get away.  We rode just about every ride at Disnyland that we wanted to, and a few times.  There was this one ride, the big mountain railroad, that I went on over and over again.  Jake would just laugh at me for riding it so many times.  We all had a great time though and hopefully we will make it back one of these with our kids.

Let the FUN begin!

Riding Matterhorn.

Visiting Radiator Springs.

Mickey and Minnie during the parade.

Yes, I waited in line an hour to see Cinderella because she is my favorite!

The whole group!

Colton and Brooklyn.

Our Disneyland experience was a success!

Early Christmas

Jake and Alex came tonight and we opened presents before our trip to California.  I am so glad when my family comes to visit me and so glad the spent the night with us.  We had a nice little dinner and then exchanged our presents.  Jake gave me some things to help me clean cars which I loved and they gave Colton a new hat!

Colton LOVES his new hat!

Alex opening her present.

Jake got a Kinect for his xbox!