Timmy is 60!!

My dad turned 60 last Saturday and I got to go home to spend the weekend celebrating! Neither of my parents are big party people, so we all got to just hang out and spend time together which was perfect :)

The plan was to go to Top Golf - a super fun driving range with two stories, where you can eat and hang out and just kind of make a day of it. However, it was a beautiful Saturday in Houston and everyone and their mom decided to go that day, so the wait was 3 1/2 hours!!!! (And, it actually ended up being 5!) Needless to say, the plan got changed and we decided to go to the shooting range! It was my sister's and I, the husbands that were in town, my mom, my dad and my Auntie Karen and Uncle Steve. Most of my family owns guns, so whoever had them with, brought their own, otherwise they had a cajillion to rent!

It was SO fun!!! We had all kinds of different guns to use (most of which I don't know the names of) and a shot gun!

Here are some pics at the shooting range-

The crew minus Aaron (who had Austen outside)

My Momm and her sis, Auntie Karen

Birthday Boy and Kiki

Courtney and Jennifer - I think Jennifer is giving a lesson!

Jennifer - the master

Courtney

Kiki helping me out

I got pretty good by the end of our session! (Once I remembered how to site/sight it correctly!)

Uncle Steve helping steady Auntie Karen :)

Aaron (my sister Kiki's husband)

Courtney with the shot gun!

Momm with the shotgun

Her reaction to the kick back, haha

With the shot gun!

Birthday boy taking his turn with the shot gun - for some reason the kick back didn't effect him quite as much (is it affect or effect?)

Justin, my sister Jennifer's husband

After the shooting range, my mom had rented out a room at Ninfa's - one of our favorite restaurants to go to as a family. We had SO much food and it was amazing (especially since we don't get real Tex Mex out in California and I had just finished my 10 day cleanse :/)!

Ninfa's pics-

The Hyland/kid table :)

Playing games and visiting

Dad, Uncle Steve, Auntie Karen, Charley Kate, Momm, Courtney and Jay :)

Aaron, Austen and Kiki- they were troopers with a sick baby!

Caught red handed, haha

More visiting/eating

Birthday cake and gluten free cupcakes!

Singing Happy Birthday

Playing with the awesome bouncy balls

Uncle Steve and Charley Kate

Happy 60th Bday Dad!!! We love you!!! :) :) :)

Moriarty Christmas

After a great time in Bend, Scott and I woke up around 4 am and took off on a 5:30 am flight to Houston. Yes, we are crazy, but it worked out great because we got in around 3 Houston time and still had some of Christmas day left to hang out!

My family postponed the normal Christmas Eve celebrations so that Scott could experience the whole Moriarty Christmas, haha. He was in for a surprise! Hanging out in Bend was very calm, and very adult oriented. Hanging out in Houston was very kid oriented - both are so fun but just in completely different ways! So, we had a "Christmas Eve" meal like usual, hung out with the fam and opened up our Christmas PJ's! Every year my mom used to get the girls matching PJ's and as the family has grown, she has started getting them for the husbands and children as well. This year was a "Watt Christmas" because JJ Watt of the Texans is the biggest thing going on in Houston right now! We took lots of pictures, got through some of the crying (the kids don't like taking forever for pictures, haha) and made our pyramid as usual. All the husbands were very good sports!

The next morning we got to do "Christmas morning" with Courtney's family - her kids are still young enough that Santa coming one night later was no sweat off their back :) It was super fun to watch her oldest, Jay, get so excited for his toys, and Charley was as happy as she could be with her new things, too!

We had Christmas morning breakfast casserole, and then we spent most of the rest of the day cooking and getting ready for Christmas dinner and present opening! The families each do their own present opening at their houses, but we exchange aunt/uncle/cousin/grandparent gifts at my parents house on Christmas day.

It was super fun and super crazy as usual! Scott got a taste of a little bit different type of Christmas, haha :)

The rest of the time was spent just hanging out and spending as much time with people as we could! Taking walks, enjoying the good/cool weather in Houston, going to the Houston Zoo (which was SO fun!), and probably a bunch more things I can't think of right this second!

It was so great to spend time with my family and have Scott around to see my family's traditions and just get some quality time in! After a great trip we headed back to LA on New Year's Eve!

Here are some pics from Houston Christmas - again, I had more on my own camera, but have to get my memory card fixed :/

Making our famous and yummy Sausage and Cheese Balls

My nephew Josh :) This is about how the night goes with all of the kids!

Our yearly pyramid, it just keeps growing and growing!

And the collapse

A video on this would have been awesome!

Grandsons! This was a pretty good pic, haha

Daughters

Daughters and kids (thanks for loaning me yours sisters!)

Supposed to be a pic of the son in laws, but the big boys were doing their version of photo bombing and Austen and Charley were for real photo bombing, hahaha - the two little ones crack me up!

:)

Granddaughters - so sweet!

Christmas morning at the Squillantes

Scott and I with Charley Kate

Owen making his entrance with his donut holes!

Jill (my flower girl) and her wedding dress from Grandeb - she loved it!

Scott with Jay and Owen (this is a big deal that Jay was obsessed with Scott for a bit because he used to be so shy with Scott!)

Scott with Jay, Owen and Josh 

Son in laws without the photo bombers - again, such good sports

Just a pic to try to show some of the craziness

Jay and his moustache pappy :) Uncle Scott was proud

Uncle Scott feeding Austen :)

Bend Christmas

This Christmas was awesome in so many ways! First of all, it was our first married Christmas and the first time we got to spend the holidays together!!! It was so great to actually spend that special time of year with each other :) It was also fun because we got to see both families!

In Bend, we had a great time visiting, eating the great meals Scott's mom would cook, helping cook, skiing and snow shoeing! I haven't been skiing very many times in my life so I'm definitely a little rough around the edges, but the second day we went was WAY better than the first day, so there's hope for me! Scott started snowboarding in middle school and has only done that since. He decided he would try skiing again for fun the second day we went and it was like he'd never stopped! I was a little jealous :) Summer was nice enough to stay on the easy slopes with me and the boys would alternate going with us and then going down some crazier runs.

Snow shoeing was also a ton of fun... and totally exhausting! Long story short, Chris (my brother in law) is in better shape than most people I know and Scott and I definitely couldn't keep up! We were ready to be done at mile 3, exhausted by mile 5, and barely standing when we finished around mile 7, haha. It didn't help that it snowed the entire time and Scott's clothes weren't waterproof! But, we got some beautiful views and it was great exercise!

We had a great Christmas eve dinner that Linda, my mother in law cooked, went to a Christmas eve party that some of their friends throw every year for all of the parents whose grown children are not around, and had a really fun time opening up presents together! They were so wonderful in welcoming me to the family for my first Christmas with them :)

Side note- I'm going to throw myself under the bus, because this was actually really funny- One morning while Summer and I were helping cook breakfast, I was put in charge of getting half of the ingredients for the cinnamon, apple pancake into the blender and then blending it. So, I go to work putting all of the ingredients in - eggs, a pinch of this and a dash of that (which in itself is stressful to me because I tend to overanalyze - like a big pinch? Or a little pinch? Is a dash just a splash, or a little bit more like a pour? So, finally when I get all of the ingredients in, I can't find part of the top to the blender. We look around for awhile and can't find it, so Linda stuffed some aluminum foil in the middle of the top for a make shift top. Scott comes over to help me blend and there's this weird sound... we start it again, still the weird sound... and that's when we realize that I have put all of the ingredients in ON TOP of the top of the blender... WOW!! :) So, we all got a pretty good laugh out of it to say the least.

Here are some pics! (I have a TON more pictures, but my memory card is broken :/ Hopefully I can take it in and get it fixed and post other pics later!)

On the slopes!

Group 1 - when we're all still feelin' good (poor Doug, my father in law, had just had a knee replacement surgery, and wasn't able to do a whole lot, but was a total trooper going out to eat and stuff!)

I look like a boy, haha, but the scenery is great!

Scott's make shift waterproof shoes - they lasted about 1/4 of the way :/ And yes, those are garbage bags on his feet.

Off roading :)

It snowed the WHOLE time, which made it beautiful, but like walking in sand!

Brother shot

Somewhere in the back of this pic is a waterfall - we almost made it all the way :)

When the skies finally cleared the second day of skiing!

Oops, they're out of order - Group shot 2 during showshoeing

More scenery from snowshoeing