Papa and Yaya visit

The day after Christmas Yaya and Papa came for their Christmas visit. They took the train from California. It was so nice to see them. and as always we crammed a ton of fun into the short time they were here. The first day they spent here they worked all day on a huge and amazing Christmas dinner. Mmmm. Everything was sooooo good. Rowdy helped Yaya make Orange rolls.

I wanted to hog my parents all to myself, but they made so much food we had no choice to invite over more family :)
After dinner my mom helped the kids make gingerbread houses. Rowdy just kept putting candy inside of the house, umm and inside of his mouth

There was still a little left over snow so Rowdy had a hayday chasing Papa with snowballs.Then it snowed some more. Papa took Rowdy on a little sleigh ride

Ezra loving the attention

Papa grew up in Utah so he knew all the moves. Moves to make the best snowmen, moves to make cool snowforts

We went to Central Market while they were here too looking for good cheese.

We did a "little" fishing. no literally

Papa gave us the tree and Papa taketh away the tree.
That was amazing.

and before the tree disappeared we realized we had forgot to open some presents. It was a true happy mistake. Rowdy had been getting the Christmas presents Christmas morning and then we had gone to breakfast and somehow not opened my parents gifts to the kids. So they go to be there for that. Thanks Mom and DadNew Years Eve Eve we went down to San Antonio with my parents. We shared a hotel room with them which had one of those big armoires? for the ironing boards and junk, and that's where Rowdy slept, just for fun. We heard him in the middle of the night knocking his head on the wood. It was sad funny.
New Years Eve,We went to a cool little Safari drive through park. Favorite moments=The goat video, where he tears open Rowdy's sack, The ostrich reaching its head in my Dad's car and pecking his hand. and then Rowdy who was shaken up because of the whole goat incident, getting screamed at for at least 30 seconds by a crazy lemur. Once again funny sad.

After the safari park we went to the Alamo and the River walk. Such a cool place.

The River walk was hoppin' because of new years eve. My Mom and Dad took Rowdy and Ezra back to the hotel in the evening while Cody and I had a date. It was so nice.

So then I love to do the 12 grapes at midnight thing so we tried to buy some of that and martinelli's on the way back to the hotel, but I guess there are a lot of latins in San Antonio because all of the grapes were gone. So we ended up with cheese puffs and Manzana Sol! anyway it didn't matter because we all fell asleep 3 min before midnight! Happy 2010
We had such a good time. Thanks for all of the fun memories Mom and Dad. You are amazing