This Christmas Vacation went by WAY to fast for my liking. The kids in all fairness had 3 weeks off but it did not feel like that long at all.
This first picture is from Benjamin's LAST Christmas Performance with his Elementary School. I admit I cried. Jasmine is in Middle School now and they do not have a Christmas Program. This was kind of the end of a tradition. It is sad and happy to see these two wonderful kids growing into two wonderful teens.
The kids LOVE Magic Mountain, so what better thing to do than to take them for a day. It is only a 2 hour drive from our home, so not bad at all. As I was explaining to Benjamin, if we lived in LA it would still take us 2 hours to get home at 5pm LA rush hour traffic.
My two boys cannot take a picture without making silly faces. No idea who Benjamin gets it from. This was not planned they just both made similar faces
It was a good day if on the way home she was sleeping before we even made it over the Grapevine. She was too cute not to take a picture of.
Here we all all dressed up for Christmas service at church. The kids love to get all "fancy". Benjamin and Rougeh matched for the night, all black suit and shirts with red ties. Benjamin wants to be like daddy so much. Jasmine is growing each day. She is such a beautiful young lady.
On that topic, for Christmas we got her a blow drier and flat iron. She wants to start doing her own hair and I love that she is! It was over a 2 hour process to show her how to dry the roots, dry and curl the ends, then finish it off with the flat iron to smooth it out. I have to say she did an amazing job. Beautiful little girl
Benjamin got his video game time in. Some days he decided he did not even need to get dressed. Or sit on anything but the ground.
We started a new tradition this year. I bought 24 different Christmas based books. I got everything from "How the Grinch stole Christmas", to Frosty the Snowman, a few versions of the Birth of Jesus, Rudolf the red nose reindeer, and so many more. On the last night we read, Twas the night before Christmas. Not sure how it happened but Rougeh ended up in his Batman mask with Rudolf's nose, blinking and all. We all sat there in footed pi's, Yes, even Rougeh has footed pi's, as Rougeh read to the kids in Batman's voice. We all laughed until there were tears. Kids begged for it again. It was a moment in time where I sat back and felt very blessed for this family that I have.
It really was a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!
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