Dinosaur Museum And Christmas! (Picture Overload)

Before We left for Wisconsin we went to the dinosaur museum with some friends. Grace loved it! Well, she loved digging in the sand at the end for dinosaur bones. What she didn't love...the SHARK! You can't tell very well in the picture but she freaked out when Mark brought her close to it. Pretty funny. But Rocco bud on the other hand liked it. You can see his big smile right in front of the sharks mouth.
We have a bad reputation in our house of giving gifts before the actual holiday. Actually Mark and I have been married almost 5 years and I don't think we've ever given each other a present on the actual date it's supposed to be given. I thought I was bad at surprises and then I married a person who is even worse than I am! We both just get so excited when we buy the gift that we can't wait to give it to each other. So we don't wait! I know we're really bad! So unfortunately this means we also gave Grace and Rocco their presents before we even left for Wisconsin. Grace got a new table thats just her size. Isn't it cute? It even matches our kitchen perfectly.
We had a blast in Wisconsin. Besides the fact that I was FREEZING! It was a lot of fun. We went sledding, Ice skating, made sugar cookies (I think Grace ate more than she made), looked at lights, went to lots of museums, and just hung out. Grace loved playing with her cousins, Jack and Will. And we got see our newest nephew, Ben who was just 3 weeks old, so cute! It was a good time had by all! Grace loves to do the cheesiest smile in almost all of her pics. She tilts her head and squints her eyes. She doesn't normally smile like that but eveytime she see's a camera thats her "cheese" smile.
On a side note...I've started potty training Grace this week. And it's not going so well. So if you have suggestions, tips, or advice please send them my way!

Cute Family Pics

While we were in San Ramon my brother's girlfriend, Megan took a bunch of cute pictures of the whole family. They turned out so CUTE! She did an awesome job! My brother, Dom was dancing and acting crazy in the background to try and get Grace to smile. Well, it definitely worked. She was cracking up, along with the rest of us. You'll notice in a lot of our faces that we're trying to stop ourselves from busting up. =)

Disneyland and San Ramon

A couple weeks ago we drove to Disneyland! We met up with my side of the family there. It was so much fun!!! The only down side was we picked one of the BUSIEST weekends to go. Literally every ride was at least an hour long. The fast pass didn't help much either because we would get it first thing in the morning and couldn't use it until that night, ugh! But it was still a blast to be with everyone and see how happy Grace was! My mom bought all the kids princess/prince outfits to wear while we there. Grace's outfit was supposed to be tinkerbell but as you can see she didn't wear it...as soon as she saw my mom had an extra snow white outfit she went crazy and insisted she wear that (even though it was like 3 sizes to small) everyday! Kinda funny. Grace's favorite things were the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse show, The Toy Story ride, and the "How to be a princess" show. I don't think we've seen her so happy.
She was in heaven being with all her cousins. She didn't even throw one tantrum. And that says a lot! Rocco is not in a lot of the disney pics because he was mostly sleeping in the stroller all day. He was such a trooper there. After Disneyland me and the kids drove back to my parents house in San Ramon to stay for a couple weeks. And Mark flew out later to have Thanksgiving with us. Grace is in love with my mom. It's so cute to watch. She wants to do everything with her and pretty much ignores everyone else whenever she is around. Too bad I don't have a single pic of them together! I don't know how that happened. Well, we're back home now in the snowy weather, blah!
We're headed to Wisconsin in a couple weeks to celebrate Christmas with Mark's side of the family. Should be fun!