Christmas Cards

We finally got our Christmas cards out today along with a Christmas letter. Unfortunately, I didn't order enough cards to send them to everyone, so I'm including a scan of our Christmas card on the blog. Merry Christmas!

Diddy Riese

After viewing the lights at the L.A. Temple, we took the boys to Diddy Riese. It's a little shop near UCLA which serves handmade cookie ice cream sandwiches. You get to pick the type of cookie you want and what flavor ice cream. It is made right in front of you. The boys really enjoyed it!

Christmas Lights at the Los Angeles Temple

John and I took David, Michael, and A.J. to see the Christmas Lights and Nativity at the Mormon Los Angeles Temple tonight.

Christmas 2009!

I took a few pictures on Christmas of the family opening gifts.

Chopsticks

AJ wanted to learn how to use chopsticks when we went to Pei Wei yesterday. Here are a few photos chronicling his attempt to use chopsticks for the first time. David, who already knows how to use chopsticks, wanted his picture taken also. Michael refused to try them.

Gingerbread Houses

A good friend of mine, Kristina Hicks, invited us to her home to make gingerbread houses. Unfortunately, I packed my rolling pins away in a box which is somewhere in our storage unit. So my poor children had to use graham crackers (as all the stores were sold out of their gingerbread house kits, and I didn't make gingerbread). They did a really good job. I especially like John's house.

Thanks, Kristina!

David's Clock Tower

AJ's House

Michael's House

John's Brownstone

One more Disneyland picture...

Since I take most of the pictures, there are very few of me anywhere we go. John snapped this one on his iphone while AJ and I were on Autopia at Disneyland on Monday.