Christmas Fun

Riley and I got to do lots of fun things to celebrate Christmas!!!

The first weekend after we got home my friend Hannah had an open house at her new Interior Design studio in Benicia...a bay town just about a half hour from our house. All of us girls wanted to support her in her new venture and check out her studio so we headed up early with the kids and went to a Holiday Parade in downtown.

Riley and Braden were so cute standing on the sides just waiting to see what was coming up next!

Benicia was such a cute downtown and the parade was cute...here were some beautiful dogs!

I wouldn't exactly call this beautiful but it was part of the parade nonetheless!

Me and Riley

The best part of all...getting to say hi to Santa!

After the parade we headed to Hannah's studio and then to a cute little cafe downtown for lunch...quite a fun day!

The following day we went with Patti and Braden to Six Flags to check out all that they had to do at Holiday in the Park!

It was beautiful with all the lights and the huge tree!

We have yet to watch a show at Six Flags because we're always having too much fun riding the rides but this time we went to see the Sea Lions Christmas show and Riley absolutely loved it!

Of course we still rode some rides...here's our helicopter pilot!

The highlight of the night...the snow mountain they had!

There was an area where the kids could play in the snow and then they had built up a "mini" mountain and we got to sled down...it was lots of fun!

Riley loves the snow and she's already talking about skiing this year...we can't wait to get up to Tahoe and see how she does since this will be her first year to try and get on a pair of skis!

Some pics in front of the huge Christmas tree!

This age has been great during Christmas as Riley gets excited. We have talked a lot about the true meaning of Christmas and it's been awesome to hear her talk about Jesus' birthday, how the shepherds were afraid of the angel, and how Mary and Joseph had a baby. She knows about Santa too and has been asking for one specific thing..."a doggy and a leash"

What a fun Christmas this will be!