Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!!



It has been a year since I posted anything on here and I could not remember how to add a post. It took me awhile. And then I had to figure out how to upload a photo. :p We did photo cards this year since I got 50 free ones from Shutterfly! Woohoo!!!

I've been blogging at wordpress for a few years now. We have a family blog (with our family favorites, what we're eating, weekly photos, stories of our day-to-day activities, and sometimes reviews of restaurants and other products), as well as a "school" blog (where you can see what the girls are learning). I know some of you moved to wordpress or blogspot, so it's been fun to read about your adventures on there too! To read more of our updates on there, message me for our URL.

The girls are doing well. M is 4 in 2 months and E is 19.5 months old now!! I'm having a blast being able to spend so much time with them.

Here's a fantastic new year ahead! God bless!

Well, people, it's almost that time. I think I have 1 or 2 more xanga/momaroo posts left in me, and I shall see you in your comments, over at my family blog, or on FB.

These photos are from some of our Christmas festivities. I still have to sort through and edit 200+ photos from Christmas day. We're also planning for one more Christmas/holiday activity next week. Thompson Ave, here we come!

We aren't planning on getting any kind of tree until the kids are a little older (and I'm a little less lazy), so here's our Christmas gift pile. This is before we handed out gifts and we got gifts. M helped me to choose wrapping paper and ribbons for the gifts so each one is pretty unique.


After an early Christmas dinner at my parents' house on Sunday.


Hubby went all papa-razzi on E who ate it all up.




Norm's cousin S and his wife K had just flown in from DC that afternoon, but came for dinner and we were planning to watch High Voltage Christmas light show in a nearby neighborhood, but just missed it, so we went to look at lights.





This house is not in the same neighborhood as the others, but it's just one block down from our house. After driving to pick up Hubby from the BART station after work (yes, I know it's only 2-3 blocks from our house, I don't want the guy to get cold okay?), we have to stop by this house every night to look at the princesses...and Mickey too. In the 4th pic, I think I might have scared M when I said that we have to hurry in case the people in the house come out and shoo us away. Oops.




We ended up watching the light show on Wednesday, but we forgot to tell M that I was staying the car with E. In the videos that Hubby shot, you can hear M in the background asking, "Where's Mommy?"



Here's what I saw from the car...you can see M in the pink...she's the little one. Usually the 8pm show is the least crowded, but there were a ton of people and cars parked everywhere. The show is 10 minutes and the lights come on timed to different music selections. There is an LCD projection on the garage door.


Christmas Eve service at church. The children's ministry director reading a story to the kids. I was holding E and MIL was holding M. This is what she looks like (2nd photo) most of the time when the ILs are visiting...very disshelved. At least she was listening. One girl was picking her nose, and another had her dress all the way up to her waist. After the story, M sang Away in a Manger with Hubby who was leading the service.



E was sogood throughout the service even though she was tired and yawning like crazy.


Opening the first present early. My brother told us to open it early so we did.