January brought us Buster and the Beach!

Jason and the boys have been wanting a family pet...a dog....for months, maybe even years. I finally started to give in, but only with specific conditions: 1, we adopt, 2 it's a girl, 3 she is small (20 lbs MAX)....well meet Buster! HE...yes I lost that condition, the Rottweiler/Pitbull, who will be about 50-60lbs...yep, lost that one too, but we did adopt him from the Escondido Humane Society. He really is an amazing puppy. He is so intelligent, loves to snuggle (he thinks he's a lap dog!) loves to go on walks or runs. It really did work out to be just perfect!  With all the amazing weather we've been having the boys and I took him to Dog Beach in Del Mar a few times, he even did so good, he got to have his leash off!  Not bad for a puppy who's only 4 months old!

This was the day after we adopted him down in Oceanside Harbor

Dog Beach

Low tide, sea urchin hunting

Krishele, Nathan, Kaden, Kohl, Brady and of course Buster!

Beautiful!!!

What a good dog!  and So good looking too, we LOVE him!

Lots of snuggles at home

Low tide left a cool little pool for the kids to jump in....even though it was warm, the water was freezing, crazy kids!

Kaden and his buddy

Low tide is awesome!!!

Kohl's 7th Birthday...Arrrr!

Kohl turned 7 a few days after Christmas, and we had his Pirate Party a few weeks later. Lots of friends and fun!!!

Playing musical planks!

Go Brady Go

This is what it's all about, for a 7 year old ;)

The cake!  Upon Kohl's request for a pirate cake...I tried my best!

Christmas Time & Bringing in the New Year

Just some pics of Christmas time. I kinda slacked on taking pics of presents and Christmas morning...but some is better than none, right? :)

My gramps, sister and me

The boys with the other Hustead kids, all enjoying Christmas day together

Brady and Kohl during the construction of their gingerbread homes...eat, eat, build :)

Apples, to Apples!

Don't fall asleep in our house, you never know what you'll get your pic taken with!

Disneyland

Back in February of last year (2010) we volunteered for Disney's Give a Day, Get a Day and each received entrance tickets to Disneyland. We waited to use them until they had all their holiday stuff up, it was amazing...minus how crowded is was.

my prince ♥

Brady was in there, somewhere?

Waiting to see Captain EO!

Its a Small World after all....too bad the line was over an hour long, so we skipped this time

love my boys!

Family pic with Mickey, Love it!

Mud Run

Back in October I did my first Mud Run with some girlfriends....and it was AWESOME! I am a mudder for life!

New Tradition

So we are huge outdoors lovers, camping, fishing, hiking we love it all! We'd be wanting to go check out the Bass Pro Shop up in Riverside for a while and finally got the chance the weekend after Thanksgiving. It turned out to be SO cool, and new family holiday tradition! They had the best Santa set up for the kids. Free games, nerf challenges, remote control truck races, wii fishing, lets just say my boys were in heaven...and it was all FREE so mom and dad were too :) The place is amazing just to walk around and "dream" of all the cool stuff we could do or have.

Winter Funness

Kaden had the opportunity to do some K1 speedway racing with a good friend....they both kicked butt! Kaden came in 2nd out of 12 on his first run, and 1st place on his second run, he rocked it!

KADEN!

Kaden and Jayden...buds!

Thanksgiving UtahTrip

We were able to escape town for a long weekend and spend some time with friends in Utah, while also enjoying their beautiful snow! The kids got to go snowboarding for the first time....um, in Park City, Utah....doesn't get much better than that!

Kohl ready to go!

The Means and the Husteads ready to shred :)

Kaden, our goofy footed one :)

Jay and I at the top of a mountain....and they made me go all the way down! haha

Laura, my coach :)

While we were there, we were SO very lucky to be able to have our talented friend, Laura, take some LONG over due family pics....they turned out AMAZING!