Vegas Vacation!

Here are few highlights from our winter in Las Vegas. We had a ton of fun and love our families so much. We are happy to be home but as you can see below it was a good time.

Here is Kyla with "Many and Leo" the clowns for Erika's mom's grand opening of her Kumon

Taiko drummers for the grand opening.

cutting the ribbon

Miya loving the snow

Mike and I playing against Bob and Matt in a heated new year's ping-pong match

family at Lena's house

Emi being crazy in a dress Erika wore when she was a little girl

Christmas at Baba's house

Miya defying gravity and attempting a toe-touch

Miya learning her role as a subservient, japanese, woman who stays in the kitchen (J/K don't worry)

Santa Claus after an hour and a half wait

Our family home evening of the nativity story

Christmas decorations at the Bellagio

Merry Christmas to all!

This is Miya's new game

Preschool Christmas Party

This is everyone's fish face...

This is their "Mean Face"

Today for preschool we did a little presentation for the mommies and then had a little Christmas party.  The kids were so cute singing "Picture a Christmas".  Here are some of the photos from today:

Craft day at Fenna's

On Tuesday the girls and I went to our friend's house and had a little Christmas craft day.  We started off with making hair bows and the kiddos colored cute little nativities that Fenna pick up for them all.  Then we ate a delicious artichoke dip and bean soup...yummmo!  After lunch, the kids decorated sugar cookies and we made fleece scarfs for the girls.   Thanks Fenna and Rachel!

I love this pic. catching Amelia sneak some frosting

Miya and Maddie decorating cookies.

The girlies ready to decorate some cookies!

Emi loves COOKIES!

They Crack Me Up!

One great thing about being a mother is seeing your kids trying to make you laugh.  Emi is still learning on how to master the art of being a comedian, but is actually really silly.  Miya is almost a master at making me laugh.  Here are a few pics that illustrate this:

Emi doing a pose being silly-willy.

Miya singing in the bath while watching herself in the facet.

This one is my favorite because it's classic Miya.  What really tops off this photo is that she's sitting on her little couch only in her undies.  

Thanksgiving week in Las Vegas

Thanksgiving week we went to Las Vegas to spend the holiday with our families. We had tons of fun singing tons of songs around the piano with mom playing and Brendon holding the pitch (everything from Aladdin to Beatles to Les Mis). We ate a bunch and even ended up going riding. It was a lot of fun and we are grateful for our wonderful families. We didn't take our camera so I stole these few shots from Kara's blog. Can't wait for Christmas.