Our Christmas Adventure

I hope you all had a fun Christmas! We were so lucky to get to spend Christmas with Daniel's Family in California. It was great to see everyone and enjoy the warm weather for a change!

Before we left for our week & 1/2 trip, we visited my parents and family in Paul.

My sister Natasha & her husband & 3 boys drove all the way from Mississippi to be with the family for Christmas. We were glad to get to see them for a few days. Natasha and I have been exploring the world of coupons & coupon blogging together. We had to restrain ourselves so that we did not spend the whole time talking about frugal tips and coupons. :D
We had this cute little tree in our appartment- for all of December and half of January! :D We cheated and opened presents from my family before we left for California.
Both of my grandparents gave us blankets. They must know how cold it is in Rexburg! Don't they look warm?!

We left the Wednesday before Christmas to make the 13 hour drive to the much warmer state of California!

It was so fun to see the family traditions of the Grant family. We ate with family and played chimes on Christmas eve. Then we drove to Mellissa and Tylers new house to spend Christmas there.

Kids sure make Christmas exciting. Daniel and I probably would have slept in... but not with 4 nieces and nephews waiting to see what Santa brought them!!

The Grnat Family is very efficient at opening presents. We were done by 9 am! I called my family to say Merry Christmas, and they were eating breakfast & they had only opened the presents from Santa! (And they had an hour head start!)

On this trip to California, we learned that Payton is a pianist (We only heard this once, since Granddad has the piano clamped closed...), a singer (she will sing about anything & everything), and a dancer!

Since we were in the warm state of California, we had to go swimming. We had a date with the hot tub one night since the pool is not warm in the winter. We did to give the pool a try, just to see...

Daniel was dared to do a cannon ball into the pool.

Yup, it was freezin'!! I walked in the shallow end, but I could not make myslf get much farther than my belly button! The water was freeeeezing!

We walked from Daniel's house down to the Rose Parade. It is such a fun tradition. This was one of our favorite floats. The airplane turned.

Payton really enjoyed the parade. I am not sure why the glasses are upside down... :D This float had dogs snowboarding in tu-tus! It was so cute.
This was my favorite. It was labled the scissor wizard.

Happy New Year Everyone!