I always create a blog post to recap our year. We had a lot of fun in 2024 and we are excited to see what 2025 holds for us. May this new year bring you much joy and fun. May you find peace, love and success. May this year bring new happiness, new goals, new achievements, new inspirations and above all good health! Wishing you nothing but happiness in the new year. Here’s to another year full of joy, laughter, and unforgettable memories. Remember, no matter how hard the past has been, you can always begin again! Watch our video here of all favorite memories from 2024.
January
We spent the month at home cleaning and organizing. We worked on a couple campaigns and started planning out the year, participated in some virtual press junkets, screened lots of shows and movies, did some shopping and spent those Christmas gift cards! The kids went back to school from Christmas break and we got back into our routines.
February
We were invited to the Madame Web premiere by Sony Pictures and we had a blast. We enjoyed the movie, met the cast and they all signed our Madame Web book. Blake and Kennedy went to the Father Daughter Dance and it was a Taylor Swift theme. Carter became a million word reader at school and we celebrated Valentine's Day at home making heart shaped pizzas. There were lots of dress up days at school and of course the Super Bowl.
Click here to see all the fun we had at the Madame Web premiere.
Father Daughter Dance
Valentine's Day
Western Day at school
Dress like your favorite celebrity (Taylor Swift and Walt Disney)
What do you want to be when you grow up (Kennedy a vet and Carter wants to do something with movies and he passed out bags of popcorn at school)
Throwback Day at school. Kennedy went for a 50's look and Carter went for an 80's look
The year we turned into Chiefs fans
March
We went to DWTS Live and had the best time. We met some of the pros and celebs after the show. It was so good. Carter chose not to go to 6th grade camp so we spent a week with no school and extra time together. Disney invited us to Disney Princess In Concert and it was magical. We had the best time. We celebrated Easter at Disneyland and enjoyed spring break in Newport Beach.
Click here to see all the fun we had at DWTS Live
Click here to see all the fun we had at Disney Princess The Concert
Extra time with Carter all week
Celebrating Easter at Disneyland
April
We went to the Grammy Museum, The Griffith Observatory, and saw Hairspray The Musical.
Click here to see all the fun we had at the Grammy Museum
Click here to see all the fun we had at Griffith Observatory
Click here to see all the fun we had at Hairspray
May
Olipop and Barbie invited us to a fun event. We saw Aladdin the Broadway Musical. We went to the IF movie family day premiere at The Paramount Lot and interviewed the cast. For mother's day we saw Symphony of Dance with Derek and Hayley Hough. We met Jessica Biel at her book tour. We were invited to not only attend The Garfield Movie premiere but also interview the cast on the red carpet and we met Chris Pratt! Carter graduated 6th grade and was finally done with elementary school. Kennedy finished 4th grade. Disney invited us to The Lion King 30th Anniversary Live To Film event at The Hollywood Bowl. It was an amazing experience. Kennedy turned 10 and had a Taylor Swift themed birthday party. Universal Studios invited us to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the tram tour.
Check out the Olipop Barbie event here
Read about Aladdin The Musical here
Read about IF Movie and our interviews here
Read about Symphony of Dance here
Read about Jessica's book tour here
Read about The Garfield Movie premiere here
Read about The Lion King Hollywood Bowl event here
Read about Kennedy's birthday party here
Read about our day at Universal Studios here
Our birthdays are less than a week apart so we always celebrate together
Carter's 6th grade graduation
June
We attended The Big City Greens The Movie Spacecation premiere. This is one of our favorite shows, so to be invited by Disney to attend the premiere and meet the cast was seriously a dream. We celebrated my birthday at Disneyland for Pixar Fest. We went to Sea World and Sony Pictures invited us to the Sony Lot to celebrate Ghostbusters Day and it was awesome. San Jose Performing Arts invited us to see Peter Pan the Broadway Musical and it was so fun. We spent a lot of time swimming by our pool and enjoying summer.
Read all about The Big City Greens The Movie Spacecation premiere here
Read more about Pixar Fest At Disneyland here
Read more about Sea World here
Read about Ghostbusters Day at The Sony Lot here
Read about Peter Pan The Musical here
July
We went to Mrs. Doubtfire the new musical comedy in San Francisco. Disney invited us to attend the Descendants The Rise Of Red premiere and it was one of the highlights of our year. The kids attended a golf camp and Sony Pictures invited us to work the premiere of Harold and the Purple Crayon and interview the cast. It was so fun and the cast is beyond talented. We immediately became obsessed with the Olympics and watched it day and night.
Happy 4th Of July
Read about Mrs. Doubtfire here
Read all about Disney Descendants The Rise Of Red here
Golf camp
Read about Harold and the Purple Crayon here
Watch our fun Olympics video here
August
Disney invited us to attend D23 The Ultimate Fan Event for 4 days. They spoiled us with park tickets and 3 days of panels, meeting our favorite Disney stars, seeing friends, and literally having the best time of our lives. Kennedy got to interview the cast of Disney Zombies 4 and Kensington Tallam (voice of Riley in Inside Our 2) We celebrated Carter and Blake's birthdays. Carter started 7th grade at a new school. Kennedy started 5th grade. We were invited to attend Disney Frozen Broadway Play. This was our second time seeing it and we loved it.
There are several blog posts about D23, but click here to read about Day 1
Click here to watch Kennedy's interview with Kensington
Click here to watch Kennedy's interview with the cast from Disney Zombies 4
Read about Disney Frozen Broadway Play here
Happy Birthday Blake!
Happy Birthday Carter!
Back To School
September
YouTube invited us to a special screening of the new Transformers One movie at The Paramount Lot and we went to The Afterlife Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Experience. We saw Wicked on Broadway, and attended an event for The Wild Robot (which was our favorite animation movie of the year).
Read about The Afterlife Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Experience here
Read all about The Wild Robot here
Read about Transformers One here
Read about Wicked The Musical here
October
We went to Pixar Putt in Long Beach and Disney invited us to an event for Wizards Beyond Waverly Place. We met the cast and interviewed them. We saw Meghan Trainor in concert and danced all night long to all our favorite songs. We celebrated Halloween at Disneyland and went to the Oogie Boogie Bash.
Read about Pixar Putt here
See all the fun we had here at the Meghan Trainor concert
Watch Kennedy's interview with the cast of Wizards Beyond Waverly Place here
Red and Maddox from Disney Descendants The Rise Of Red
November
We attended The Best Christmas Pageant Ever premiere and interviewed the cast on the red carpet. We spent Thanksgiving in Disneyland and Netflix invited us to their Christmas party where there were real reindeer. We saw Shrek the musical and Mariah Carey in concert for her holiday show. We visited with Santa and went to Universal Studios for Grinchmas. We saw so many movies throughout the year, but Wicked was our favorite. We were invited by Fandango to see the movie and received so many PR packages for the movie. It was wickedly awesome.
Read about The Best Christmas Pageant Ever premiere here
Read more about Christmas at Disneyland here
Read more about Grinchmas here
Read about the Netflix Christmas party here
Read about Shrek the musical here
Read our Wicked review here
December
Kennedy had dress up days at school and her Christmas performance. We had several campaigns all year, but our biggest and one of our favorite was this Disney Marvel one that went live the month of December. We decorated the house for Christmas, baked and cooked a lot. We visited with great grandparents, celebrated Christmas with family, exchanged gifts, put a lot of puzzles together, and saw Dance For The Holidays with Derek and Hayley Hough and met Derek for the second time this year. He even picked Kennedy to go on stage during the show!
See all the fun we had here at Dance For The Holidays
Kennedy had to dress as her favorite Christmas movie character. She picked Jovie from Elf.
Christmas performance night
Lots of puzzles during Christmas break. We love puzzles.
Her favorite gift
Making gingerbread houses
Ice skating field trip
Universal Pictures sent us a wickedly amazing package for the movie
Christmas at papa and grandmas house
Christmas morning
Our Christmas card
I am so grateful for the opportunities, premieres, events we were invited to attend and all the fun we had. There is nothing more important to me than making memories with my family.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading this blog, following me on my social media outlets and always caring for our family. We worked with so many amazing companies/ brands, interviewed so many wonderful celebrities and screened so many movies and TV series. It is always such an honor to be asked to screen movies early and share my reviews and thoughts. It has been a blessed year and I can't wait to see what fun 2025 holds.
