16 December 2009

A day with the Bennetts!

My brother, Jason, and his darling family came all the way from Hawaii to visit the first weekend of December! They flew into LAX and then drove up to us to spend two days before they had to head back to LA to go to Disneyland. We are SOOOOO glad they came to see us! It was so much fun!

We played at our park.




Went to the Creche exhibit at one of the ward houses.
It was incredible!
There were crafts for the children.

Dress ups.
Here is Mary.And Joseph.A very sweet angel!A shepherd and his lamb.And a few more manger animals.Dress ups were a blast!The children were able to see a marionette show about the first Christmas.After that, we headed to the City to see some sites.
Squish!Jase, Rach, and Klai made it out to the bridge while the rest of the children took a nap.

We then headed south to Los Gatos to a Christmas Train ride.
A very adorable tan family that was FREEZING while we waited for our turn to ride the train.Little buddies!Jorgen and Shae meeting the conductor.
On the train ride!Some of the neat lights we saw.In memory of my Dad. :)
A tired babe.The train tickets include unlimited rides on the carousel.
I cannot even count how many times we went around. What a blast!
Jase was full of fun faces!
We miss our Hawaiian Bennetts so much already!

4 comments:

The Bennetts said...

We miss the Hawaiian Bennetts as well - come to think of it we miss the California Hansens and the Memphis Lymans and the Utah Bushs!

Looks like you had tons of fun! Such cute cousins!

Ashlee said...

It was great to meet your brother. He is so nice, wouldn't expect anything less from a Bennett though.

Rach said...

Bren we would drive 14 hours for you again!! We had a party! and Ashlee...I was being nice to see if I could pawn any other food out of your trunk to take on our eternal road trip! Oh and Bren only let me take a small tupperware of the nuts and not the entire container you so freely gave to me! ;)
Jase

Jannie said...

ohh! Looks like so much fun!! We would just love that train ride :) And I'm sorry we are not seeing you this season...we decided a while ago that it'd be fun to have Christmas at home and have family come see us :) We are excited!! Hope you have a wonderful Christmas!