Monday, December 29, 2008

All This Fun Stuff!

Every year, I get a little sad when I realize that Christmas is over. At least we still have the tree and the decorations up, and we have New Year's Eve to look forward to! After that is when the excitement really is gone. I haven't uploaded Christmas pictures onto my parents' incredibly slow computer yet, so until I do I'll just show you what we've been up to. We're still in San Diego, and we're all having LOTS of fun with all of these things. . .

My new Flip Video Ultra! Thank you Santa! It's adorable! I really love this Christmas decoration my parents bought me from Disneyland. I'll be excited to put it up next year!

Look at all the great stuff Santa brought for Stephen! We've already watched both The Dark Knight and Kung Fu Panda, and Stephen is a little bit obsessed with his new portable GPS device. Boys never outgrow their toys! They just get lots more expensive!

Posting my Christmas Wish List on my blog really did work! I got lots of the stuff on it, and I love it all! I didn't get the piano or the dog. . . but my husband is so wonderful he got me not just one but 365 dogs to love, every day of the year. I'm so lucky! (And yes, he totally told me to write that!!)

Santa was really nice to Kirsten this year. . . she got spoiled by everyone else too! Too bad she didn't really care about the presents too much. She plays with them now, but on Christmas morning she had no interest at ALL in opening presents. Here are just some of the cute things she got!
I love all the Little People sets, especially the Nativity. And that stuffed panda bear I gave her is the softest, biggest, fluffiest thing! I seriously think I'm going to sleep with it every night!

So we've all been having a great time with our presents. The soundtrack to our entire San Diego trip has been the Christmas Eve on Sesame Street DVD. Kirsten adores it, wants to watch it a million times a day, and it calms her down when she's fussy. Needless to say. . . we are getting sick of it! But Kirsten loves it!

On Christmas Eve afternoon, we saw Australia at the theater. It was really a good movie! Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman were both SO awesome in their roles, and we all really enjoyed it. I love long movies! I also love long books. You just get so much more of your money's worth out of them! Know what I mean? You pay the same amount for a short movie/book as a long one, but you just get so much more out of the long ones!!!

Stephen and I saw Marley and Me yesterday, and we really liked that movie too! It was better than I had expected. Owen Wilson is always so funny. How could you not just love him?

We're also playing lots of games, and just enjoying our Christmas vacation! I hope everyone else is too! I'll post Christmas pictures soon!

16 comments:

  1. I've wanted to see both movies. That and Benjimin Button. I'm with you on the long books/movies. oh yeah and that panda bear for kirsten does look really soft and cuddly

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  2. I'm totally jealous about the Flip video thing, SO awesome! Lilly got that same Fisher Price car too and loves it! Fisher Price stuff is SOOOOOO cute! That nativity is darling! Looks like you guys are having a blast!

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  3. Sounds and looks perfect! I can't wait to see both of those movies. And I love the little nativity. That way they can leave Mom's alone.

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  4. I want you to tell me what you think of the quality of the video of the Flip camera. I think they are so cute and practical but I don't know anyone who has one yet so I haven't heard how clear the movies are. Will you get back to me on that one?

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  5. Sounds fun! I wouldn't ever want to leave SD!

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  6. Good to know you liked those movies -- I want to see both of them. I'm so glad you had a fun Christmas with all the cool toys. And I love all the pics that you put in posts.

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  7. sounds like everyone got pretty spoiled and is having a good time!

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  8. You and Stephen will LOVE Spore! Clark and I are so addicted to that game :)

    Happy to hear you had a wonderful Christmas! :)

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  9. AWWWWWWWWWWWWHhhhh sounds like you had such a great time! I miss CALI! =<

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  10. It all looks so nice and so fun! Kudos to the 365 dogs! lol

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  11. Hi, The movie sounds great! I don't even know what the flip video thing is. I am lame. In a good way of course. M

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  12. YAY ASHLEY! I am totally jealous about the Flip video thing!!!! awesome!!!!

    Santa got Spencer the Kung Foo Panda movie, too : )

    i have been wanting to see Marley & Me. Now that you said it was good, i definitely want to see it!

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  13. Great post! Come see the pictures I just posted on my blog :) Happy New Year 2009! ♥ Hugs :) Shauna

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  14. Looks like you had such a fun Christmas! I think I want to play with some of your fun toys to get ideas for my birthday list!

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  15. Ashley,

    It looks like you each had a wonderful Christmas!!! 365 dogs is alot of dogs!

    We have been looking for a great movie to see this week so thanks for the reviews!

    Happy New Years and enjoy a safe return home.

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  16. Oooooh, I'm jealous of the LittlePeople Nativity. Totally. :)

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