Parks, Disneyland, Temple Christmas lights, & Travel Town

 Last Sunday we went to Balboa Park to feed the ducks and go for a walk. It was raining so we only got to stay for a minute but we enjoy having a large park close to us with lots to do. It's similar to Irvine Park in many ways but free!

 On Thursday we went down to Tustin for two days to go to Disneyland before the holiday season is over. We also went to a park with Grammy and Brett one afternoon. Ethan was the conductor on the play train and had a blast running around with Brett.

 Friday evening we got to Disneyland with enough time to get great front row seats for the Christmas parade. Papa came from work and brought us McDonald's. It's always fun to eat dinner while watching the parade. The park was packed so we rode the train and called it a night. The train had quite a long line!

 Ethan and Tanner playing this week - in this picture Ethan is about to dump Tanner but the load was a little too heavy! This week Tanner has been getting faster at crawling and Ethan is starting to engage in more imaginary play. It's cute to hear him talk back and forth with his trains.

 I have tried multipule times this week to get some nice pictures of the boys. I got some good ones but it's tough to dress both boys in church clothes, get them both to sit up and look in my direction with a smile - all without anyone else to entertain them.

 Last night we went to the LA temple to see the Christmas lights. It's not Temple Square by any means but it's still neat to see a temple with pretty lights and a nativity scene. We were there for almost two hours. We also went inside the vistor's center which was so nice. I haven't been there in years and it's newly remodelled and much nicer than Salt Lake's now. We watched a movie on families and it was really well done. A lot of the time the movies are so cheesy but both Jared and I thought it was a really nice video with a great message. Afterwards we watched the Christmas fireside with youth choirs singing. Ethan was great and wanted to stay all night.

This morning we went to Travel Town in Griffth Park. The boys rode the train around the park. Jared said Tanner was jumping up and down the whole time and Ethan wanted to go again. It was a hit! We are looking forward to more Christmas activities in the next two weeks.