Seth is 5

Seth had a Jake and the Neverland Pirates birthday party.  He invited all his friends from preschool.  They had pizza and cupcakes and a treasure hunt and a pinata.  His favorite presents were his jungle gym for the backyard and his Pirate Hideout to play with his boat and all the "Jake guys".

What makes you happy:  playing on my jungle gym
Favorite food: meatballs and noodles with white sauce
Favorite thing to do:  doing "boss" stuff
Favorite TV show: Jake and the Neverland Pirates
What are you really good at: bowling

Favorite Movie: Mega Mind

Favorite color:  red and orange
Favorite song:  Rudolf the red nosed reindeer

Best friend: Maeli Dean and Van from preschool

What do you and your mom do together: play with toys

What do you and your dad do together: Puzzles

Favorite sport: soccer

Favorite place to go:  Grandma's house

Favorite animal: zebra

Favorite Book: Rainbow Fish

What do you want me to be when you grow up: worker who builds houses

Visalia for New Years

The day after Christmas we packed up and drove to Visalia to join everyone.  We went to the beach and rode ATVs again.  The weather was so nice. The bigs loved riding in the dune buggy and  all the little ones had fun in the sand.  Seth and Ruby got to go to Build a Bear and make their stuffed animals they got from Christmas.  Seth made a dog called Cougar and Ruby made a white bear named Molly.  We rode bikes and went to the park a lot.  And we celebrated my birthday.  Bob made me a custom layered cake, with the help of Grandma and Venessa.

Christmas

This year I found the cutest Christmas pajamas and they had sizes for all the kids! So I bought them and to encourage the older kids I told them what I wanted for Christmas was for them to wear their matching jammies. I loved my seeing my little Santas and Elves!

We had Christmas at our house.  Christmas Eve we went to a party at the Pettingills' and then the Deans came over to our house to act out the Nativity.  This year the boys had mustaches I found at the dollar store. We couldn't get Seth to participate so he was in the audience with the adults. After the Deans went home the kids opened their presents to each other.

Christmas morning started at 6:30.  This year each of the kids contributed to everyone's stockings so that was fun to see what everyone got.  Then we moved on to the presents.  So fun.  Then we had a big breakfast and played with toys and did puzzles all day.

Favorite presents:
Danny-Xbox
Rachel-Ipod
Aaron-go kart
Seth-Jake and the neverland pirates boat
Ruby-Toy Story dolls