Our Adventure to The Festival of the Trees

We took Grandma & Grandpa Moore and the Kiddy's up to the Festival of the Trees on Saturday (Dec 5th). It was a lot of fun and there was so many beautiful trees. I have not been up to The festival for a really long time and it's such a great feeling knowing that all those trees and everything they do goes to help the children at Primary Children's. So many sad stories go along with the trees, but these people and children (whether living or dead) are such an inspiration to me. We didn't quite make it through everything, because the kids always get tired of things like that pretty fast. They made some crafts and enjoyed some of the things at the kids korner, especially the bubble machine. The crafts were cheap, but that goes to a good cause, so you hate to complain. On the way out we stopped at the gift boutique and I found this really pretty Wreath for my door. It was a steal ($25), so jas gave in and bought it for me. I just had to say, "hey it would cost me more to make it." A wreath for my door is about the only decoration I was missing so I was pretty excited... I haven't got a picture of it yet, but all post it when I do. Enjoy some of our favorite trees! I had a ton of favorites, but I didn't want to bore anyone. Oh Too late!

They had a lot of fun doing little crafts and things in the kids Korner this is Eth in the Bubble machine. He didn't know what to do, so he just sat there and smiled.
Jay in the bubble machine... He almost got a bubble out
Syd in the bubble machine...She almost got one out to.
This was a Jack Skeleton tree...It was so cool looking. I don't know how they get the trees to look upside down! There was a few with that look.
This was one of the few BYU trees, so of coarse it was Jas & jay's favorite
They liked this Jazz tree to. The signed Jersy's would of been cool.
This Grinch tree was really cool to! Where would you put that big Grinch though?
This was the biggest display there. It hadn't sold yet, probably because of the price tag! if you were a big Star Wars fan though, you would be settin pretty with figurines.
Okay one of my favorites dreamworks shows is Shrek, so this tree/display was fun and different.
Who wouldn't love a big chocolate tree...right! The only problem would be keeping the ornaments on the tree. You would want to eat the tree, well actually I would love to dip it in Peanut butter.
This was one of Syd favorites! It was so girly. There was a lot of girly trees, but this was cute, cute, cute!

"I GUESS I BLOG FOR ME"

I was just on my sisters blog and have realized the same thing she has... Except she at least gets a few comments here and there. While On mine, I get none!!! I've enjoyed blogging, even if I don't stay caught up most of the time, but I must not write anything worth reading or commenting on... Let's face it, my husband doesn't even read our blog. Boohoo! Well since I still care about me I will keep blogging, it just won't be very often...

"Twilight Before Christmas"

Okay, I found this on facebook and thought is was worthy of my blog! If you are a twilight fan, but thought the special effects in the movie was let's be nice and say "NOT GOOD"!!! Then watch this! I laughed so hard, hopefully you'll enjoy it as much as I did...

The Twilight Before Christmas from The Juice Box on Take180.com

Disney Slides 1

Here is the 1st slide show of our trip! I had so many more pics, but you can only fit so many. These are some of the highlights though!

Okay! I have to do 2 slide shows, because all my pics wouldn't fit. I'm going to have to finish tomorrow because it's already 12:15am. Enjoy!

'DISNEYLAND WAS A BLAST, VEGAS NOT SO MUCH'

Us in front of the Walt & Mickey statue. you have to get a picture in front of this
jayden & Jason w/the cars cars
Sydni got to set on Cinderellas lap at the Goofy breakfast "It was so precious'
We splurged and did the character breakfast with goofy...it was so worth it.

We had such a good time in Disneyland!!! We left Saturday the 24th (Taylors B-Day) and headed to Vegas, because we didn't think the kids would last that long in the car... Next time we're going to drive straight through or fly. Vegas is not a place for kids. I felt like I needed to blindfold them just walking through our junky Hotel. Okay I found the cheapest one I could since we would just be sleeping, in our case NOT sleeping! Since we couldn't go do much, the kids got really bored in the hotel. Then there was some loud show outside the hotel that we could hear until after 11pm, plus Ethan had to sleep in between us and in the middle of the night he started crying for his crib and then he kept needing drinks. it was not a great night for sleep, when you have a 5 hour drive ahead. We did get to see Emily & Mike and the kids which was great.
So we woke up and was out of Vegas by 7:30, which wasn't quick enough. We got to our hotel about noon, but they talked jason into upgrading rooms, but it wasn't going to be ready until 2 or 3, so we headed into Disneyland. and Holey Canoley's it was B.U.S.Y. There was so many people you felt like cattle on a cattle drive. We pretty much just walked, waited, went on a ride, then did more walking and waiting. By the end of the day I could barely walk. (I really should of got in shape before I went) The kids were having a blast though and half way through the day we totally alomst ran into
SELENA GOMEZ..AAHHH. It was so Awesome. My niece Taylor almost touched shoulders with her. She was in a hurry and you could tell she didn't want people to notice her, but we did... Out of all the Disney Stars she is one of my favorites. We were so bummed the rest of the day, because we didn't get a picture & autograph, but it was still cool.
Sunday they had the fun Celebration parade and the fantasmic show, which I was so bummed jason didn't bring the camcorder back when he checked into the hotel. It was cool, even though me Tay and the kids had to wait over an hour to save a decent spot. I tried to record the show with my camera and there's no sound. I should of just took some pics, but it was probably to dark anyway. So after Fantasmic me figured we all had about as much as you can waiting and walking. so we went back to our Hotel (which was so nice). it was a suite and it was so roomy, they even brought us a crib to our room for free. (Eth appreciated that, so did me and jas). Tay even got her own bed. It was amazing how fast everyone would crash at night, even me. I would try and read, but it wasn't happening. the second night I even fell asleep in the tub for over an hour.
The second day I didn't wear socks with my shoes, mistake. I had a blister on my heal and calasses on the bottom of my feet. (which was why I got in the tub) it was still pretty busy on monday, but not as bad as Sunday. We decided to go into California Adventure for a couple of hours on this day. To be honest I wish we would of spent more time there. It wasn't as busy and it was so mush fun. I loved every ride and show that we saw. On our last day we spent more time in California. I even got on California Screamin' with Tay and definetly figured out why it is called that. Wow that rides fast!!! The new Toy Story ride was so awesome to, i would of went on that ride a couple of times, but it was the only ride that actually had a line. Since Syd and Eth wasn't old enough to ride most of the rides, we just had to take turns entertaining them while 2 people went on the ride then we would switch. I would love to go back soon, but I think i want to wait for them to be tall enough to ride all the rides.
All in All it was a great trip! The kids did farely well in the car and the parks. They loved seeing all the characters and they loved having breakfast with goofy and his friends. That was worth the money!!! We didn't see everyone, but the kids didn't care, they were just glad to see who they did. We were so glad Tay came with us, especially Eth, he was her little buddy most of the time. She was a great help, I don't think we would of done as well without her. Wednesday we went into downtown Disney to buy our soveniers before we headed back to Vegas, which none of us was excited about. I made reservations in the same hotel, because it was even cheaper the 2nd night and yes we were on the same side as the loud show, but closer down this time. so it was even louder, but I must have been really tired, because i crashed before the show was even over. So after 2 days in Vegas, 3 days in Disneyland we came home with $35 bucks. (we took $1,000) That is so sad, we even bought snacks and drinks before we left and we would take a cooler with us everyday with water and juices and a backpack with snacks. It saved us a lot, but then sometimes the snacking wasn't enough so we would have to buy stuff from the parks, but it would always be $30-$50 bucks everytime. Then we spent in between $300-$400 on soveiners, $16 bucks a day to ride the shuttle, $90 to rent the 2 strollers we used (worth the money though). Who knows where the rest went! This was definetly a learning trip, so next time I will be well more prepared. I'm going to try and do a slide show, because i took over 200 pics. Hopefully no one fell asleep reading this!!!

WOMAN THAT SLACKS ON HER BLOGGING "SAY WHAT"

Okay maybe I watch a little bit to much of "Hannah Montana"! If you never watch Hannah Montana, then you will not get the title of my blog. Needless to say I'm slacking. It's been a few weeks to say the least. So here are a few activities the Tuckett Clan has done in the last few weeks.



Yes folks that is my husband playing "Sing Star"! Sunday we decided to get the playstation out and do a little Dance Dance and sing star. Jason will never play with us, so that's why I took pictures. It doesn't happen very often.


Jayden doing Dance Dance.. He loves to play playstation, but he always wants someone to play with with him, and since Dance Dance and Sing Star are the only games I like to play that's what I make him play.


Yes again Folks! That is Jason doing Dance Dance and I tell ya it's a site... It is a LOL experience. That may be rude to say, but he's not real cordinated with things like that, but I give him and E for effort, but on Dance Dance an E means you fail.


Okay this is my favorite, because it made my whole day! It's been a couple of weeks since I found this, but it's worth blogging about. You know how you put your winter coats away or just hang them up for about 6 months. Well it was rainy and cold the one day and I told jay I would come and pick him up. Well I got out my coat to walk over to the school and found "this"...in the pocket. It was pretty cool. Granted I wish it was $100 dollar bill, but I'll take money no matter how small.


This was the day I was on a rampage.. My kids went from mess to mess and I could not get out of my house quick enough when Jason got home. He walked in and I Ran out. It's sad when you are actually "excited" to go to work. This was them dumping out 2 bags of potato chips and then throwing them at each other.. Eth then went over to the movies when I was trying to clean up the chips and threw 2 rows of DVD's and Videos on the floor and then stepped all over them. Those were not the only messes of the day, that would probably be why I put the word "RAMPAGE"!!!


For family night a couple of weeks ago we took our kids up by the resevoir to collect fall leaves. This is the kids in front of the Resevoir.


They had so much fun and they were so cute with their bag of leaves. Who new such a cheap activity could be so entertaining. You can't get cheaper then "Free"...Right!


Jason brought his cutters and made sure all their bag were full.


All in All we're pretty boring. But do come back in a couple of weeks and check out our "DISNEYLAND VACATION". It's going to be so nice to get away, especially to the HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH..