All Day Celebrating Christmas Eve

Isabella on a moose

Donovan on a bear

Honoka on a deer

Haley on a moose

Eagan on a bear

Isabella, Eagan and Honoka at the shooting range

Haley, and Daddy hitting ducks

Eagan, Isabella, and Honoka using a remote control car

Isabella and Honoka still playing

Eagan gets a turn 

Daddy, Haley, and Isabella at the driving range

Honoka, Isabella, and Eagan playing Wii

Donovan, Eagan, and Honoka playing Wii

Honoka and Isabella high fives

Donovan and some girl racing remote control cars

Waiting by Santa's workshop

Big chair by Santa's workshop

All five children with Santa Clause

Everyone tell Santa what they want

Eagan liked Santa

Brrrr it's cold just outside Santa's workshop

Everyone together racing cars

At the North Pole with Frosty, very cold, brrrrr

Looking at the fish

Sitting on a turkey bench, Donovan, Haley, and Isabella

Honoka and a pop gun

Haley and Donovan with pop guns

Daddy show Eagan a pop gun. Honoka is done with her pop gun.

Waiting for elevator so they can see fish from other side.

Honoka on an ATV

Haley riding an ATV

Donovan on an ATV

Isabella and Eagan on an ATV 

Leaving Santa a plate of Trader Joes Candy Cane Joe Joes and carrots for the reindeer.

We woke up and ate breakfast, I used my pressure cooker to make rice and we had sourdough toast, fried eggs, and leftover sausage form last night.  I made the rice super fast with the pressure cooker, so very cool.  Donovan is the only one who ate it, Honoka didn't want rice, she ate everything else though, she has been eating everything we have for each meal.  After breakfast we received a visit from our neghbor Rob and his daughter Allison they dropped off Christmas gifts for us.  Then we counted the mason jar full of coins my sister Heather gave us, WOW, very generous.  Then we left for our day of fun.  We promised to take Honoka to a book store.  We went to the 99 Racho Market(HUGE Asian market)  in Rancho Cucamonga.  We ended up eating lunch, I asked Honoka to pick what she wanted for lunch, she chose sushi, the other options were Chinese food.  I had brought my camera, but not in the store sadly, because we actually got Eagan, Isabella, Haley, and Parley to try sushi, Parley is te only one who liked it.  PArley has claimed to not like sushi for as long as I have known him.  It was really fun to see Eagan try the sushi, and Honoka loves Eagan I think so she offered him the sushi herself hoping he would try it.  After lunch we headed over to Barnes & Noble, Honoka was surprised by how big the store was.  We learned she likes Harry Potter a lot, she checked the books out from the library.  I learned she had read The Chronicles of Narnia, so we bought her an illustrated hard bound copy of all the books together in one.  After the bookstore we took our very reluctant children to see Santa Clause at the Bass Pro Shop.  They weren't excited till we got in and they saw the carousel and the Santa Village full of free toys to play with.  We went on the carousel first then enjoyed the shooting games, remote control cars, train, and remote control race cars, they also knocked over ducks.  It was fun, Honoka enjoyed all of I think.  While playing Parley waited in line to see Santa, and we met up with him when he got to the front of the line.  Santa was in his workshop waiting for us.  All our children posed for a photograph with Santa then explained to him what they wanted.  Afterwards we left and played some more then I recommended we show Honoka the rest of the store.  Honoka was really in awe of the very large fish tanks and the store is huge, she liked it all, she even took pictures of it all.  As we were leaving we saw the off road golf carts or whatever they are called.  Our children tried them out and pretended to drive them.  At the end of our long day out we went home and ate homemade pizza and watched White Christmas(my favorite Christmas movie).  Honoka liked the pizza, not sure about the movie.  Then we got ready for bed and our children left a plate of goodies for Santa and an ice cup full of milk and then went to sleep.