Happy Birthday Jordan!!

Yesterday we celebrated Jordan's 28th birthday with all of our friends. We had dinner at P.F. Changs, his alltime fav., and then came back to our house for some cake and ice cream. We have great friends here that we love hanging out with and can always expect a great time. Happy Birthday Jord!

The birthday boy

Not to boast, but I was so excited that my cake turned out so well. Even though Jordan felt like he was 10 again with a football cake, I think it went over pretty well!

All the girlies

And the boys

A Night Out

One of the nights we were in California we got to go out with Andy and Mandy and spend some time with them. They took us out to Balboa Island which was so pretty. I had never been there before and the sunset was unreal. Jordan and I thought the ferry was pretty awesome too, where you ride across the harbor IN your car, pretty nifty. We had a great time with them going out to dinner and then games back at their house. I love Jordan's family and the closeness I feel to them every time we spend time with each other. Thanks Andy and Mandy for a great time, can't wait until next time!

New Years 2009

Yay a new year! Which means new resolutions, new start, new experiences, and deep breaths of fresh air. We celebrated New Year's Eve with about 67 family members with games, delicious food, entertainment, and celebrating the new year by watching the 9pm ball dropping in New York City and in bed before midnight! Now thats the way to celebrate! Everyone knew they had an early morning ahead of them for the Rose Parade. Another Walburger tradition that I thoroughly enjoy. It ended up being a gorgeous day for the parade and the floats were great.

Here is the big Grand Marshall of the parade... Cloris Leachman. (Can you sense the sarcasm?)

This was my favorite float. I loved the colors and the amount of roses was unreal.

After the parade we had the same 67 people over to the Walburgers for lunch and football. It seemed like forever since I had seen alot of them so it was great talking and catching up with everyone. We had an awesome vacation but it's good to get back and in the swing of things, and are we ever! I hope for great things in 2009 that are all happy: having a new baby and seeing my sister come home from her mission to name a few! Happy 2009!

Christmas Recap!

We spent a wonderful 10 days in sunny California for Christmas and New Years and to say the least we had a great time. Jordan hadn't been home since Thanksgiving of 2007 so I know he was excited to be home for the holidays. Judy and Gary were great hosts as usual and we also got to spend alot of the time with Jordan's brother and sis-inlaw Andy and Mandy and their 4 adorable kids. We did alot over the break and unfortunately going through my pictures I wasn't the best photographer so this is what I got!

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve dinner and Judy's table made it a beautiful setting.

The spread

As Walburger tradition goes, the nativity is acted out and it was more than entertaining! I loved it. Little Eliza was the angel and a true angel she is. She was perfect the whole time we were there!

Here is the Bethlehem crew: Andy as the donkey, Anna as Mary, Clayton as Joseph, Jordan as King Herrod, Eliza as the Angel, and little Chasers as the "Soldier".

Uncle Jordan and Chase

Here is where my lacking of pics takes place, we didn't take any pictures on Christmas morning or day, but we had a wonderful Christmas and a big thankyou to Gary and Judy for the wonderful gifts.

The day after Christmas my parents and Brandy came up to California and we spent the day with them at Disneyland. We had a such a fun time even though it was Freezing! It was still all decked out with Christmas decorations which was so fun to see.

The boys and the enormous turkey legs. Yum

My cute Mom and Dad on Small World

We scoped out a great spot for the "holiday" firework show and sat there freezing to death for an hour and a half, they started right on time, we got through about 15 minutes and then...."Attention please, due to the weather conditions we are not going to be able to proceed with the firework show" (something to that effect). Great! Our booties are numb along with our hands and feet and we waited for all of that! Atleast we got to see the fake snow fall walking out which was pretty neat. Other than that we had a fantastic time and I loved being there with my fam. Afterwords we went back to their hotel and had our Christmas with them opening eachothers gifts. Thanks again Mom and Dad and Grandma!