..........the adventures of rich, ...........britt, maza & zoe........: February 2015

Horseback riding

For part of Maza's Christmas present we decided to set her up with some horseback riding classes since she just loves horses so much these days. The little classes have been so fun! It is a highlight of her week. She has even made up a game we play at home called horse class where we take turns being the teacher or the student and reenacting her class with her toy horse and little doll. It is very cute.

Weekend adventure in Portland

Rich had a continuing education course up in Portland the end of January and Maza & I decided to tag along. We had a blast going to the Children's museum/Science museum during the day and exploring the city in the evenings with Rich. We tried a couple local restaurants and went to Powell's books. Maza's favorite parts were sleeping in the hotel, getting chocolate muffins every morning at breakfast, and playing with the pets at the Vet clinic at Children's museum.

Christmas time in Medford

The Christmas season this year was so magical. Maza is at such a fun age where everything was new and exciting and she really understood for the first time what Christmas was all about. She loved everything about it. Putting up decorations, the music, visiting Santa, the books, baby Jesus, decorating cookies, buying and wrapping presents for others, opening presents, the fact that Santa actually came to our house and brought her presents etc. It was awesome.

Here are a few pics from our Christmas celebrations:

Decorating the house. Maza wanted me to take a picture of her with Dad and Uncle Matt.

Santa breakfast at the mall. She was absolutely in love with Santa this year.

Maza at her preschool Christmas program. She was the cutest little sheep I ever did see.

Christmas Eve dinner.

Reading the nativity story. Maza started out as Mary and then we had to do it about 3 more times so she could be a shepherd, and an angel.

Christmas Eve

Decorating cookies to leave for Santa

Christmas morning.

Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving we made the trek down to San Diego. It was our first time doing the drive from Medford. On our way down we decided to break up the drive a bit and visit with Aunt Audrey and Uncle Ron (My Grandma Wirrick's sister) They were so lovely and kind to us. We had a great evening visiting and were back on the road again the following morning.

We made it in time to help Dad celebrate his birthday!

We had such a beautiful week for our visit. The weather was unseasonably warm with 70-80 degree days! We even made it to the beach one day. These boys braved the water and spent the afternoon boogie boarding. (Rich got stuck with the smallest of the wetsuits) Haha! :)