Happy 2012!

Happy New Year!

We spent our NYE with the B Fam at our annual Benihanas NYE dinner. The kiddos gave us a run for our money this year. They spent most of the time looking out the window at the fountains. Which turned out to be a blessing. It was the only way were going to be able to eat our food.

Mr. P and C starring at the fountains...

Action-Packed Christmas

We were so blessed to be able to spend Christmas with both sets of grandparents this year and boy did someone LOVE all the attention! We went to the Christmas mass at our church and with such large attendance some priests were called in to help. While waiting for mass to start the Father came up to us and asked if we would bring C up to the front went he started talking about baby Jesus. We of course of obliged!

While the mass was going on my mom kept saying to herself his name sounds too familiar. Well....a light bulb went off and he was the priest that married my parents 33 years ago and baptized me. Small world!

Making cookies for Santa!!!

Heels and an apron...she is a character

Waiting to go to church

Papa and Gigi

Hamming it up for Uncle M

She is totally bored with us with all the attention from the grandparents...can you tell!?!

Yum...milk!

Time for presents! This girl is set for quite awhile. She started with quote the burst of energy and excitement but that soon tapered off. Nothing a little milk and breakfast can't fix. She was recharged and opened more gifts while playing with gifts she already opened. For the rest of the day she mentioned presents about 100 times. We reassured her this only happens one day a year.

Gammy and Grandpa

Aunt Char, Aunt Liza, Abuelita and Gigi

A Mountain of Leaves

Good ol' fashion fun in the HUGE pile of leaves!

OH and look who we caught under the tree... ;)

Gingerbread Fun

Our first attempt at a gingerbread house. Half of the battle was stopping little one from eating the candy. ha

Checking out the lights at the shops of legacy...

Mi Familia

A few weeks ago we had some family pics done as we were way over do. I won't bore you with all of them but here are a few keepers!

Cookies, Santa and Singing

C's cousin had her Christmas program and it was so cute to see all the little kiddos singing their hearts out. Afterwards, pics with Santa were an option; as you can guess she was NOT having it.

Love it!!!

They were supposed to be decorating cookies but C preferred to eat the sprinkles...ALL OF THEM...and use the dip stick to scoop up the icing and eat it that way. This girl loves her sweets!

Alphabet***

We decided to make some homemade Christmas ornaments with the ol flour, salt, oil and water recipe. It was actually pretty fun. She liked cutting out all the shapes and painting them as well. Of course the dough had to be tasted and it was SUPER salty. Needless to say she made some cute gaggy faces.

Yesterday we went to the Sealife aquarium again with her little friend Miss G!

They have a turtle there they just got that was a rescue. Apparently it is pretty common for sea turtles to get their shells damaged. Once they are damaged they lose their buoyancy so they have to be weighted down so they can maintain their life in the water. But they can not be released back into the wild. You can see her weight is plastered on her back.

Somehow we got to almost 2 year olds to face the camera at the same time.

**** I asked C what she wanted to title the blog entry today and her response was Alphabet.

There is Always Next Year!?!

Yep, she is NOT a fan of Santa Claus. She was okay from a distance but as soon as she was a foot away from him, she wailed. Nothing worked to distract her. We had to do the ol' ditch and run for a photo op.

She did have a blast in the faux snow right before though

Yo Gabba Gabba

We got to go see Yo Gabba Gabba with Aunt T and C. The girls had so much fun!

Her first taste of cotton candy! It took her awhile to take a liking to it but eventually wanted more.