Christmas with the Laytons

This Christmas, we drove up to northern California.  My brother, Phil, lives up there with his family.  My parents just bought a mobile home up there too.  It was great spending 5 days with my side of the family. 

Annalee and Ella love helping their mom in the kitchen.

Lola with 2 of her grandkids

Sitting down for our Christmas breakfast.  Jaime did a wonderful job with all the food!

Phil, Adam and Jaime

Adam, playing in the corner all by himself

Annalee, Ella, and Georgia playing with some of their new Christmas presents

Adam, playing with dad's phone!  He loves getting his hands on anything electronic.

Georgia, playing with one of her Christmas presents

Lolo, exhausted from an exciting Christmas morning

Adam

Jaime and Phil

Ethan and I stayed with my parents in their mobile home.  The day after Christmas, we had the Layton fam over.  We hung out, talked, laughed, etc.  Some of us took a walk around the lake.

Annalee, Ella, and Georgia - ready for a walk around the lake

Aunt Lisa with her adorable nieces

Phil, Lisa, Dad, and the Layton girls

Christmas Traditions

We started a tradition last year with Ethan's side of the family.  We have his mom and brother's family over to our place to eat pizza and then decorate cookies.  We had a nice time again.  Here are some pictures.

Ava and Lisa

Jared, Ava, Lisa, and Ethan

Lisa and Eric

Ava, Eric, Lisa, and Lisa

Ava, Eric, and Jared

Mary Poppins

Ethan took me to see the Broadway version of "Mary Poppins" in Los Angeles.  He bought us great seats!  It was so much fun. 

Girl's Night

Three of my close friends are having babies, all due around the same time!  Since their babies are all due within the next month, we decided to have a get-together.  We went to Johanna's house, ate dinner (Stonefire "stimulus package"), and had dessert.  We had so much fun talking & laughing...  They are such dear friends.

Joanna, Johanna, and Angie

 Johanna, Angie, Lisa, and Joanna

Come Christmassing

One of my favorite things to do each Christmas season is to attend TMC's "Come Christmassing."  The music was beautiful (as always) and the cheesecake so yummy!  :)  I went with 4 of my friends.

Joanna, Angie, Danielle, me, and Kristina