Family Pictures

Makayla and Kaleb... They love eachother so much!!!

Makayla and Mommy looking at a pretty yellow lily!!!

Grandma and Grandpa Elenbaas

Nana and Papa Wofford

Grandma and Grandpa with their little ones!

Nana and Papa with all their little ones!

The Elenbaas Family

The Wofford Family

Thanks Jayde for doing such a great job on the photo's this year!!!

Makayla and her love for spaghetti

I couldn't resist!

The girl likes to eat! Like Mother like daughter!

I think we need to teach her how to eat with utensils, What do you think?

Don't mind the hair do... She's into doing her own hair these days!

Hunter lost his 1st & 2nd Tooth

Our little guy has lost his front teeth!

What an exciting day when he knocked his 1st lose tooth that was hanging by a thread out with the Wii controller. Mommy, Mommy it finally came out he screamed! It was the 1st night that Hunter couldn't wait to go to bed. He was so curious as too what the tooth fairy would leave and how she would get into the house and in his room without waking everyone up. I think his biggest concern was how she gets it out from under the pillow and the money back under? He had a couple theory's... "I think the tooth fairy has a special tooth vacuum that sucks the tooth out from under your pillow with a long sucker and when the tooth hits the canister she knows she's got it. She also uses the vacuum to slide the money back under the pillow without waking up the children." He was so serious with his explanation, then he thought about it again and said... "Or she's just magic like Santa." His 2nd tooth came out about a week later in a lean pocket he had for dinner. Luckily the tooth fairy found it before it was washed down the drain and never to be found! Hunters 1st tooth was worth $3.00 and 2nd was $2.00.

It's amazing how their little face changes when they start losing those baby teeth.

Pismo Beach

So the Elenbaas family finally planned a trip and headed to Pismo Beach! I know January is not the best time to head to Pismo, but we really lucked out with wonderful weather! We headed up in the motorhome and stayed at Pismo Coast Village RV resort. Not a bad place to stay unless they are remodeling the park and you are camped right by the pool that is under construction. Waking up to a jack hammer at 7am is not my idea of a vacation!!!

Besides the jack hammer noise and the pool being under construction the beach was beautiful! We brought the quads and jeep so we could do a little riding on the beach with the kids. Hunter had a blast walking along the beach looking for sand dallors and Makayla just loved playing in the sand. It was a great weekend of riding the quads, playing on the beach and yummy food and camp fires at night! Another great weekend spent in the RV

Thanks Rob, Chris, McKenna, Parker, Rusty and Linda for a great weekend!!

Happy 6th Birthday Hunter

Our little man has turned 6! What a wonderful 6 years it's been! Hunter is such a great little person! He is such a loving little boy with so many great things to add to our family! I think the best thing about our little Hunter is his personality! He is funny, bright, witty and one of the best hugger's around! Happy Birthday Little Man!

We celebrated Hunter's Birthday with a fun family party on Friday Night January 9th! He wanted a Guitar Hero party... I want family to come over and play the Wii and watch me rock out with my guitar. Hunter always has specific things he wants and things he wants to do! Nana came to my rescue with his request for a guitar shaped carrot cake. Mommy, Hunter said... I want it to look just like my guitar. And so Nana created it!!! Thanks Nana... You did a great job!!! We also celebrated Hunter's Birthday with a couple old Pre-school friends and some new Kindergarten friends and don't forget his little neighborhood friends as well. Hunter again new exactly what he wanted to do for his Birthday with his friends!!! Let's go Roller Skating! What a great night we had at Riverside's 2001 Roller City! It was a little difficult at first for some of the little ones to get the hang of being on skates, but about 1 hour into the party they were all making it around the rink! I think alot of the parents had a blast just reliving old Middle School and High School days! Thanks everyone for helping us celebrate Hunter's Birthday!

Hanging out watching the Big kids skate!

Yummy Chocolate cupcakes!

January 9th 2003... It's a Boy!

Hunter Ryan Elenbaas

8lbs, 7 oz, 21 inches long

I remember the moment that Dr. King said... It's a boy! The tears on your Daddy's face and the smile on mine! We were so glad you had arrived! You were 2 1/2 weeks early and I wasn't sure we were ready, But it all worked out just fine! You were so perfect from the start! Your perfect little ears and tiny little toes. It was so much fun just to look at every little piece of you!

We spent many hours together just sleeping! You were a cuddle bugs from the start!

There was no argument as too who you looked like!!!

It's so crazy to see the resemblance to you and your Daddy when he was a baby!

You were the cutest thing we had ever seen!!!

You always keep us on our toes!!

What a Fun Baby and what a Fantastic little boy!!

Happy 6th Birthday Hunter!!!

Happy New Year!!!

What to do? Where to go? How to bring in the New Year? Camping of Course!!! Truckhaven here we come... We had a great time camping with friends and a new group of Jeepers' "The Runamucks" It was a nice relaxing trip with lots of down time to relax. Hunter spent alot of time riding quads with the kids and Dad. He is really enjoying the long rides with Dad exploring new trails and hills to conquer.

Christmas Time

I love Christmas Time... I love decorating my house, going to pick out a tree and just all the time you get to spend with family! It's a tradition for my family to celebrate Christmas a little early... We spend an entire day visiting houses to view holiday decorations and of course... Eat! I'm surprised that we all aren't over weight with the amount of food that is consumed when we get together! Good times!! We started at our house for a little brunch... Yummy Ziploc omelets, bacon, sausage and Tequila sunrises. What a way to kick off the morning! Next we were off to Nana and Papa's house for appetizers by Jason & Jayde (This year we didn't get to go to their house as they didn't decorate... Boo Hoo! They are going to Trinidad to spend Christmas with Jayde's family) Great job on the appetizer's!!! Dinner was all about Papa's Meat loaf, YUMMY!! Great Job... So good! I think this meal is one of the family favorites! Finally we finished off the evening at Auntie Julie and Uncle Donny's house for desert. Julie out did herself with a spread of choices. My favorite is Julie's /Grandma Emma's Rum Cake, Makayla's favorite was the sugar cookies! It all looked so beautiful! What a wonderful day! Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!

Another Tradition that was started a couple years back is taking the kids to Irvine Park to jump on the train to see Santa at the North Pole. Hunter was so excited that his buddies could come this year with us. Thanks Chris for bringing Emily and Trevor! Hunter was beside himself to share this with them! What a fun night with Grandpa, Nana, Papa, Chris, Emily and Trevor. Sorry Grandma... we missed you!!!

Waiting for the Train...

On the Train...

Family Picture Time on the Sleigh

I'm not sure if Makayla enjoy the visit with Santa so much... What do you think? Hunter was too cute to tell Santa...

You can bring me whatever you think is best! I loved that answer... Not sure if he meant it or he just forgot all the 40 things on his list.

Christmas Eve we spent with Grandma, Grandpa and Auntie Laurie. We had a wonderful time going to Christmas Eve church at Friends Drive in Yorba Linda and back to Nama and Dampa's house... As Makayla would say! Yummy dinner and time for more presents!

Church Christmas Eve

Makayla finally has this present thing down! Hunter of course can't pass them out fast enough!

Makayla loved her pillow from Auntie Laurie!

Thanks for a wonderful Christmas Eve Grandma and Grandpa! After a great night of Church, dinner, family time and presents it was off for home to get ready for Santa. Hunter was so excited he could hardly stand it. It was too cute... When we went to the grocery store earlier in the day to get last minute things, Hunter reminds me... Mommy we need carrots for Santa's reindeer! So off to the produce dept. we go. I picked up ONE carrot and Hunter looks at me like I was crazy! No Mommy he says... We need one for all the reindeers! So after resighting the reindeer song to make sure we had enough for all the reindeers and we didn't miss one we could go home! They had 3 special cookies and hot Chocolate for Santa and don't forget the carrots for the reindeers. Off to bed they went. Can't wait to see what Santa brings!!!

Wow... Santa was good to the Kids!

(don't mind Will Smith on the TV screen)

Santa must have loved those Cookies! Carrots are all gone too!

Christmas morning is such a blur... It started about 7ish and that's early for my kids! Hunter ringing the bell to wake everyone up! Can I open my presents now was all we heard for the next 15 minutes. Okay go ahead!!! And the Crazyness began! It's so much fun to see their faces... wide eyes and open mouth as they go through the presents and stockings. Santa... you did good!

After a couple hours we had everyone over to see what Santa had brought the kids. Auntie Julie made her ebleskeevers (Another one of Grandma Emma's traditions) we hung out and played the Wii until it was time to head over to Auntie Rosie and Uncle Dennis' house for Christmas dinner and some fun grab gifts. It was a great night filled with family time and wonderful food... once again!

One of my favorite gifts!

Merry Christmas Everyone

Weekend in Glamis

So back to Glamis... Yea~~ If I could choose a place to be it would be riding thru the dunes in Glamis... In a sand car of course!!! It's my feeling of Freedom! Love it! Thanks Uncle Donny and Rusty for the great rides! It was a small trip with Auntie Julie, Uncle Donny, Rusty, Linda, Steve, Mary, Mo and Husband. We ate fantastic as usual and had wonderful camp fires. Hunter did lots of riding with Daddy and I think he is ready for a little more horsepower. My little guy is growing up! So much fun to watch him ride!

Thanksgiving with the Family

So our Thanksgiving begins... We are so lucky that we get to celebrate Thanksgiving not once but twice. We start our celebration over at Grandma and Grandpa's house with a nice Turkey Dinner with Auntie Laurie, Cousin Bobby, Grandma, Grandpa, Rosalee and the four of us... Daddy, Mommy, Hunter and Makayla. It's a nice quite dinner and alot of laying around afterward recovering from eating to much! After spending time recovering and hanging out we head home to finish packing up the motorhome to head out to Borego.

We asked for nice weather but Please... 85 degrees!!! Wow, we had a great time hanging out in camp, going on some fun long rides and doing lots of eating!!! What's new! I would have to say that we eat better camping then we do at home! Thanks everyone for a great weekend of fun!!! Napa, Papa, Auntie Julie, Uncle Donny, Mae Mae, Uncle Jason, Auntie Jayde, Kaleb, Uncle Gary, Auntie Rosie, Uncle Dennis, Evan, Barry, Jake and Auntie Jayde's Dad and Stepmom Earl and Camela were all out to spend the weekend. It's so much fun to spend the Thanksgiving weekend out in the desert like we have for so many years!!! So many memories... and many more to come!!!

Hunter's Thanksgiving Feast in Mrs. Garcia's Class

Mrs. Garcia's Kinder class had a wonderful celebration before going off track. We had a yummy Thanksgiving feast for the kids and lots of fun art projects for them to do at each table. They had fun little goodie bags to take home and lots of fun memories. Thanks India (Emma's Mom) and Andy's mom for all the help! I couldn't have done it with out you!