Christmas x2 (part 1)

All the Imboden boys. This is their typical gathering during holidays. Kathy & I are usually in the kitchen, making fun of them. :-) Whatever, at least they bond.













Our gift to Josh, my brother-in-law. He's been going to school in Canada this year. Now he'll fit right in! Hahaha :-)


















How on EARTH did Santa fit this in his sleigh?!?!




















My little brother-in-law, Paul. I adore him. We click. 'Nuf said. :-)























My father-in-law, playing with the new potholders we got my mother-in-law... now we know what to get him next year.





















One of our few evenings at home together, might as well make it a kodak moment. :-)




















Awww.... this is our sappy picture in front of "Sappy" (our Christmas tree).





















Zach, opening his brand new BOWLING BAG! Ok, it sounds geeky & lame, but I swear it was a totally desirable gift.


















Me in my festive garb on Christmas Eve, opening one of the many glorious presents my husband "Santa" brought me. :-)



















I don't think we get any cuter than this. :-)
















The newlyweds! (Even more newlywed than Zach & me!) My beautiful cousin Mandie (can you see the family resemblence?) & her husband Nick, married in February.


















My cousin Libby opeing the super cute reindeer gift box (from Hallmark of course). :-)

















My cousin David with my uncle Charlie.

















My brother Nate... and the dog, Gizmo.

Christmas card rejects

Ok, so they aren't really the "rejects." More like the runners up for our Christmas card picture. Plus a really awesome picture of "It's a Small World" lit up for Christmas at Disneyland. If the ride wasn't so obnoxious we might have used THAT as our Christmas card picture. The one we DID pick? Well... coming to a mailbox near you. :-)

My bday

Wow I had the world greatest birthday given by the world’s greatest wife!!! Now that we are home I am suffering with Post Disneyland Syndrome. This morning as I woke up my body was ready to go back and experience the magic of Walt Disney, not the workload that awaited me at work. All day today all I wanted to do was ride Splash Mountain or Buzz Lighter again but back to reality, I guess. Well here are some more pictures from our amazing trip.

Disneyland Day 2

Woohoo! Day 2 in Disneyland! Zach's birthday week continues!

We slept in a bit this morning & then hit all the best rides before lunch. We sang "Zipppity Doo Da" on Splash Mountain and screamed our way through space on Space Mountain, lived "a pirate's life for me" on Pirates of the Caribbean & lots more!

Then we took an awesome Holiday Tour through Disneyland where we were shown all the cool Christmas decorations throughout the park & learned all kinds of fun holiday facts. We also were able to skip the lines at the Haunted Mansion & It's a Small World. The Haunted Mansion was by FAR the most impressive ride yet! It's been COMPLETELY transformed into The Nightmare Before Christmas! There are no words! To conclude our tour, we had reserved seating for the Holiday Fantasy Parade, full of beloved Christmas & Disney classics.

Last, but not least, my best birthday surprise for Zach- I arranged to have his best friend Chris & wife Stacy meet us for dinner. We haven't seen them in MONTHS, and they drove 2 hours from Santa Barbara to surprise Zach! We had so much fun hanging out with them & their little girl Amaris, in Downtown Disney.

After they took off, we finished off our night with a ride on the Hollywood Tower of Terror. SCARY! But thrilling. :-)

*And YES, those are REAL reindeer in the pictures!!! There were 8 actual reindeers there in Frontierland as part of "Santa's Reindeer Roundup." Only at Disneyland.

We are here!!!!

Well we left this morning to start a birthday adventure. We were so excited to get here to Disneyland today, so after getting through some LA traffic we finally arrive to "The Happiest Place on Earth." We check into our most beautiful hotel, the Grand Californian hotel. Which is amazing, especially now at Christmas time. So we check into our room grab our stuff and took off. First on our list the Firework show. It was amazing. Disney does it right when it comes to fireworks, they pull off the most amazing firework experience that you could ever imagine. Words or pictures does not do it justice, Im just going to leave it at that. After that we ran over to ride one of Disney's coolest rides, Buzz Lightyear. Yes Anne and I saved the world from the evil doers again. You can send us thank you cards later (if you don't know what I mean than you are just missing out on the coolest ride ever and I also decided that Buzz Lightyear is my favorite character.) After saving the world then we stroll over to Cal Adv which was decked out with the coolest Christmas stuff. Rode Cal Screaming (in line for less than 20 minutes eat your heart out). Then got some clam chowder over at Fisherman Warf. Then rode Soaring over Cal which is just breathe taking every time you ride it. Did some shopping in Downtown Disney and just hang out in room which overlooks Downtown Disney.

Man my wife is the best!!!! :) Enjoy our pictures and don't be to envious of us.

Yes its my birthday

Well last night we started to celebrate my bday!!! Yes I know that it is a little early figuring my bday isn't till Wed but why wait. My wonder wife really wanted to do a "birthday cake" for me. We have company over tonight, and then we leave for Disnyland tomorrow morning!!!