Christmas Questions

I love Christmas, so I will do anything that has to do with Christmas:) Got this as an email and I just had to answer it on my blog!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Love to unwrap paper, doesnt everyone?
2. Real tree or Artificial? I would love to have real, but it is just to messy and you have to care of it. Plus I like my tree up from Thanksgiving til after the New Year.
3. When do you put up the tree? Thanksgiving Day:)
4. When do you take the tree down? When we get around to it in January. Last year, I think it was in February or March:(
5. Do you like eggnog? Oh my gosh, Yes!!!
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Strawberry Shortcake, huge one/
7. Hardest person to buy for? Jordan, although this year was much easier
8. Easiest person to buy for? Kayleigh, she loves anything Princess or barbie or pink.
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Of course, 2 of them and we will be making one this year. This is the reason why we even celebrate Christmas.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail and hand out.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Oh my gosh. When I was pregnant with Jordan, remember I was 19, my grandma gave me this ugly robe that went down to my knees and zipped up from the chest up. It had flowers and lace all over it. It was so ugly and for a pregnant 19 year old who's self esteem was already bad, didnt fare to well. It got returned the next day.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Oh man, all of them. But if I had to say my favorite, it would be National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Usually July and August
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Always.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Eat....probably christmas cookies. Drink...would be homemade apple cider.
16. Lights on the tree? Uh, hello, what's a Christmas Tree without lights?
17. Favorite Christmas song? What Child Is This. Love Love Love this song.
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? We always travel, but I would really like family to start traveling to us and we stay home.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Yes.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Angel .
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? One Christmas Eve, always slippers and pjs and then the rest on Christmas morning.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? The people who hate Christmas. They obviously forget what the holiday is about. It isnt about gifts, it is about family and friends and celebrating Christ.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? I love them all and they don't have a specific color, but I do love the one's the kids made:)
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Your Traditional Thanksgiving Dinner for Christmas, Turkey, potatoes, cranberries, olives, green bean casserole, stuffing, this awesome jello my aunt makes, corn, etc.
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? So I would say my family and everyone to be blessed, but of course I love my gifts too, I always want a season of Friends every year and then now I am on to a season of Ghost Hunters. Eventually I will want Gilmore Girls too.

Hope you all enjoyed that, because I sure did:) I love love love Christmas!

We have adopted 2 little girls into our family...finalized today!!!

I know it may come as a surprise, we didn't know this was going to happen either. We have adopted 2 little girls into our family and it was finalized today. They are 8 weeks old and are adorable!! When I get a picture, I will post it all for you. So what are their names you ask? We have Ginger and Mowy. If you haven't guessed it yet, they are 2 adorable girl kittens. I only wanted one, but Jordan and I wanted a little tan striped one and Kayleigh wanted the white one, so Brent told me to get both. Yes you read right, it was all Brent!! Kayleigh is so excited and named her cat Mowy (cuz it meowed in her lap all the way home) and Jordan named his cat Ginger (he said it was because he just said so). We can't keep Kayleigh away from her cat, poor thing probably looks forward to her going to bed and Jordan has been playing with his all night.

The destruction of fire

We took a drive today to look at the destruction of the fire and what a horrible, depressing site. We started about 1/4 of a mile from our home and found 3 houses burned to the ground. One of the owners was on his cell phone with his hand on his forehead. You could see the "what do I do now" on his face. As we looked there was his car filled with what he could retrieve from his burned home. Then we traveled to the parks where the kids and I frequent. First was Bryant Ranch which we were there on Friday before the fire and it was all burned down. Then we traveled to Box Canyon and there was literally nothing left of that park and last Eastside which was burnt down as well. It was so sad to see the places where our kids had so much fun, gone in one instant. We tried to go into Hidden Hills, but they weren't allowing anyone in. It was amazing to see how the fires reached many backyards but were saved. Again, the firefighters did an amazing job and I thank them all very much! All of us here in the Villages cannot believe we are still homeowners, because if you would have seen the fire, you would have thought for sure "this was it!" Please keep all these families who lost there homes an items in your prayers. How hard to lose your home, but mostly all your tangible memories. A lot of people didn't even have time to gather their items or were out of town.

We are back in our home:)

We made it back in our home last night around 5 pm and worked hard til about 11:30 pm bringing everything in and trying to put everything back in its place. Our home is fine and so are we, but we are all very tired from the misplacement. The destruction here is very sad and very amazing. The fire fighters did an amazing job on saving all the homes here in Yorba Linda. When look at the hillsides and the fire burn you just think to yourself WoW!. It literally formed a circle around our place and never got us. Our Costco is fine as well. I know there were rumors going around that it burned but it didn't, almost though. Anyways, thank you to everyone who called us to check up on us to make sure we were ok. There were alot of you and you made me charge my phone every hour :) LOL! At least we know you cared:)

We have been evacuated!

I have received many calls today to see if we have been evacuated from the fires and yes we have. We were mandatory evacuated at around 11 am today. At around 9 am, Jordan and I were leaving the house for his soccer game and I could see the smoke and smell the fire. We were not sure whether or not to leave, so we attempted to stop by the fire department but of course no one was there. We decided to go to the soccer game anyways. On our way there, we drove by the fire which was about 10 miles from our house and it looked small and like they had plenty of fire men on it, we thought we were in the clear. When we arrived at our game, one of Jordan's teammates mom was leaving (she lives about 1/4 mile away from me) and she said she had been evacuated. So I had Brent go pack up and my friend, Jacque, and her family helped him. I think our whole house was pretty much packed up. Anyways, we are now in Anaheim at Jacque's and will be staying here, however she might be evacuated as well. It is all a guessing game right now. If we have to we can stay at my in laws in Placentia (possible evacuation as well) or at our friends Paul and Alison's in Newport Beach. Please keep us in your prayers and pray for the safety of our house. As we do need a place to live:) You can reach Brent or I on our cell phones or need be. Thank you to all who have checked up on us to make sure we were ok. I will post as soon as we have a solution to our problem.

The things Kayleigh says!

This is by the mouth of Jordan telling me the story, but was confirmed by the football Coach. So last week Jordan had a football game and of course the girls and I were there, and Brent too. It was half time and they were all huddled together while the Coach was giving them a lecture. Remind you Kayleigh was nearby where she could hear everything. Well I guess the Coach was yelling, at least in Kayleigh's eyes, so she went over to the huddle and yelled at the Coach with her finger pointing at him and her waving it up and down and with a mean look on her face "Don't you yell at my brother like that!". Jordan said he just put his head down in embarrassment. The Coach asked who "it" belonged to and Jordan of course get his mouth shut. I guess she ran away when the Coach looked at her, but of course Kayleigh having the last "word" came back with her hands on her hips and a VERY mean look and just stared him down. That is my Kayleigh in a nutshell. I couldn't help but laughing at the whole situation, she was not being defiant, she was being a mother hen over her brother. No one talks to him like that but her:) The Coach told Jordan at practice yesterday that he knew who's sister it was, but didn't want to embarrass him. I think he found it pretty funny, at least after the game, at that moment it probably ticked him off:) Sometimes a little innocent heart is what we need to hear for us to come back to reality.

Santa Clause Is Coming to Town!

Didn't you know Santa Clause is coming to town? Well in my family you are reminded of it at least 100 times a day. Kayleigh will be singing "you better not cry, you better not pout, Im telling you why, Santa Clause is coming to town". She sings that ALL day and then yells "I did it I did it, I sang the song", then to top it off when you get in the car, she demands to listen to the Santa Clause song, which we need to put on repeat. I think the most we have listened to it in a row is about 15 times and that was on our road trip. Jordan made me laugh today cuz when we all got in the car the first thing Kayleigh did was ask for her song. Jordan yells "Are you kidding me Kayleigh, it isn't even Thanksgiving yet and I am sick of that song. Fine you can listen to it once, but that is it!" I was busting up laughing. He was in the back and had no control over the radio, so for him to put his foot down was hilarious. I couldn't help but let her listen to it all the way to his practice:) Another funny thing she said today was Brent and her were driving around tonight and she told Brent, "Daddy the moon is following us". She would then repeatedly ask "Where did the moon go? Oh my gosh there it is again daddy!" The girl is hilarious!!

What else can go wrong? Right?

Really what else could go wrong? The story of my life:) First we had this huge leak from our bathroom that took a year to solve and about 4 months ago, we figured it out and we had it fixed and sealed up along with our downstairs neighbor having their bathrooms drywall fixed up. Then about a month later, our toilet was leaking and ruined downstairs as well. So after insurance and all that fighting, we got that fix, then we had our dishwasher break, our dryer break, had to seal up the bedroom wall so the girls could have a room, my car had about $1000 worth of work done, Brents car has something wrong with it and we still need to get it fixed, and this week my neighbor tells me there is another leak coming into her place. It was our water heater, so $800 later, we are having it replaced today! My goodness, financially I don't think we can take much more. The Lord needs to really slow down on things to go wrong for us:) But he has kept us in the race and I really don't know how. So again I ask What else can go wrong? Right?