January 2008 - A New Year at Disneyland

Disneyland is great, but the large Characters really seem to freak most kids out. On this particular trip on a quiet day at the parks, Tyler decided that maybe he was okay with the characters. Yippee, progress! He may as well get used to them, seeing that we go as much as we do :)

Nikki and Pluto

Tyler and Mickey

Nikki and Cinderella

Tyler and Woody (who was trying to steal Ty's cotton Candy) - no wonder the characters freak the kids out ;)

January 2008 - I Wanna be a Cowboy

Tyler up to his usual antics around the house...

January 2008 - The Boone Gallery

LA has yet another Childrens Museum exhibit. This is the Boone Gallery at the LA County Museum of Art. They have all kids on things for the kids to create with. You can paint...

Build with blocks, and so much more!

January 2008 - Disneyland Lights

One of the best days to go to Disneyland if you want the whole park practically to yourself is the first Monday after New Year when everyone goes back to work and school. We had a great time! This is what "It's a Small World" looks like at night during the Holiday Season.

December 2007 - Sightseeing in Arizona

We went on a few family excursions while we were in Arizona. We got to see Montezuma Castle which is a "castle" that the Sinagua Tribe built into the side of a mountain

We also took a drive West of Sedona and ended up In Jerome. The thing that caused the most excitement was SNOW :)

We also discovered this "Museum" that was more of a junkyard, but there was some pretty cool old stuff to see there!

December 2007 - A GeoTrax Christmas

So, last year was the Lego Christmas, and this was the year of the GeoTrax. Everybody got their own train, and Mike built some pretty amazing tracks. Here are a few that he built...

And after playing with the tracks for a little while, Tyler would delight in doing this...

December 2007 - Family Christmas in Sedona, AZ

My parents generously let us all use their timeshare so that we could be together as a family for Christmas. Seeing that Ryan, and our family are in CA, and Craig is in Utah, Arizona worked out just great!

A Muir family Christmas time tradidion is to decorate a gingerbread house, so, here are Nicole and Tyler with the end result...

Seeing that we don't get a huge taste of the seasons changing in Southern CA, the kids had a great time playing with the dead leaves at the resort

I think that Nicole was a little worried that Santa wouldn't be able to find us, so here was a note that she left with a plate of cookies, and glass of milk

Relief, Santa found us :)

Santa also found Uncle Craig and Cousin Matthew

December 2007 - Christmas in LA

There is a really cute street in El Segundo called "Candy Cane Lane" where the residents decorate their homes with lights, trains and all kinds of great things for the Holidays. We took my parents and the kids to take a look.

Getting ready for Sant'a visit

Tyler being silly as usual!

My Parents enjoying the holiday lights for the first time as US residents...YIPPEE!

December 2007 - Snuggle Bug

Once again Tyler went looking for a warm body to snuggle up to before taking his nap...grandad was just PERFECT :)

December 2007- Hip Hop Dancing Queen

Nicole took a Hip Hop Dancing Class at school. She was not too happy about the class at first because she didn't know how to dance, but after I explained to her that she was in the class to learn how to dance, it was a lot better!

Here she is just before her performance to Fergie's "Glamorous"

Our dancing girl in action...