Christmas at the Holbrook House!

We had an amazing Christmas this year. The girls are old enough now to know and understand the meaning of Christmas and were so excited to celebrate the birth of our Savior and for Santa to come. It was so fun to see the excitement in our girls' faces when they walked into the family room and saw that Santa had eaten their cookies and drank the milk they had left for him. Their eyes would widen and mouths would drop after each present was opened. We loved it!!!


Madison loves to take pictures! Now with her new digital camera she won't have to use mine anymore.


New Christmas dresses!
Got to love Christmas time at the beach!

SURPRISE GETAWAY!

Joe orchestrated a surprise getaway for my birthday! He had his brother Brett come up from L.A. to watch the kids and we took off and had a wonderful weekend away full of Christmas shopping, movies, and good eatin. Who doesn't love that? Joe has been truly amazing and has made my 30th birthday last the whole month of December. Turning 30 isn't so bad!!!

BALLET PERFORMANCE!

Madison had her ballet performance "Candyland" last weekend. Her ballet class performed a routine called "Cotten Candy". Joe's mom was able to come and visit and see her performance as well. It was fun to have her here since we hadn't seen her in over a year.

I got elfed!!!

After many weeks of seeing everyone's "elf yourself" I finally made one too!

Hey, I just made a total elf of myself. Check it out by clicking the link below.

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1189091950

SUPRISE 30TH BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!

After Madison's birthday party on Saturday my husband Joe and my sister-n-law Jen through my twin brother, Gary and I a surprise 30th birthday party. It was sooooooo much fun. Lots of family and friends showed up to help us celebrate. We had a sit down dinner and Jen organized some fun trivia games to see how well our family and friends know us. It was fun to reminisce the good times. It was such an amazing night and I feel extremely grateful for my husband and Jen to have arranged such a wonderfully fun evening. It truly makes me feel blessed for the family I have in my life.
My twin brother Gary and I. It has been so much fun to have him and his wife Jen, and their daughter Kayla back in Santa Barbara with us.

MADISON'S 5TH "PRINCESS BEAUTY PARLOR" BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!

We had Madison's birthday party this weekend and of course she chose to have the "Princess " theme again. We set up the "Princess Beauty Parlor" in our backyard and had some of Madison's favorite babysitters come over and do hair, nails, princess tatoos and a princess castle craft for all of her friends. Madison loved all of her presents and couldn't believe her eyes when she opened up her "Princess" laptop computer from Grandma and Grandpa. We topped the party off with good food, family, a pinata, a Princess Castle Jumper, and loads of fun!