We had a busy few days around Christmas. I feel like we went to so many amusement parks but they were so fun. We went to Magic Mountain with the Satkos and enjoyed so many intense rollercoasters while Grandma and Grandpa Satko took the babies on some small rides. Then we went to Knotts Berry Farm with the Olsons and took Mary on some more rides. She loved the merry go round the most.
We enjoyed having the Satko family in town for a few days. We took a trip to see the sights in Hollywood and found this really cool candy store that was so fun to just walk around and look at all the interesting things they had there. We saw the walk of stars, the chinese theatre, chinatown, and In-N-Out. Then watched a beautiful sunset from the Santa Monica pier.
This was Mary’s first Christmas and she had so much fun! She was the baby Jesus in the nativity play and poked at the Santa piñata. We had a great Christmas Eve dinner of tamales and a Christmas day breakfast at IHOP. We had to do some coaxing to get her to open the presents but after they were open she loved playing with them. Her favorite was the big cube toy from Grandma and Grandpa Satko. She literally jumped out of Grandpa’s arms to get to it. It was great! Once she started playing with some of the toys she did not want to open any more. We gave her some snowsuits and boots, a xylophone piano, a bouncy ball, and a fisher price telephone.
Mom, Dad, Christina, and Allison surprised us by showing up at our house on Christmas eve. I was not expecting it at all. So we went to the beach and had a great time playing with Mary and enjoyed being outside. Mary loved playing in the water!
Brian and I had a nice date together watching the parade of boats all lit up with lights and music at the Newport Bay. It was such a fun sight to see the huge yachts and the Catalina Express ferry alongside tiny rowboats and kayaks. This boat had a huge inflatable snowman on top. There was one yacht that was pulling a little dingy decorated like a shark so it looked like the shark was chasing the boat. We had a great time.
We found some fun balls to play with at Wal-Mart and Mary laughed so much when I bounced them that she couldn’t sit up straight.
