A Christmas Visit to Santa's House

Christmas morning
Go Cowboys!!!!
Bunco Anyone??

The Day After Christmas

As I sit here at 10:15pm waiting to pick up my mom and step dad at the airport in about an hour I thought why not blog.
Christmas came and was enjoyable. Ashley's face when she saw all the presents under the tree was priceless...I think that she forgot it was Christmas morning. The girls happily torn through their gifts and enjoyed all that was under the tree. Chris and I got each other Romo Jerseys( Dallas Cowboy Q-back) and a photo will follow ....Mommy with pjs and no makeup a blog first for me.
Grandma came later in the am and brought bags of gifts!!! More unwrapping and now there is fun new stuff to play with.

The day after (today) Daddy was back to work and the girls and I stayed in our PJ's until 3!!! I got so much done. All the unwrapped gift boxes are in the trash/recycling and the gifts are slowing finding a place in the house. I got some of the garage cleaned up and now we can get out of the car with ease. I was tried of having to step around paint cans and mops and brooms. I even got some exercise in as well. Dinner out and a quick trip through the lights in PQ at Christmas Card lane and we were home in time for some Bible trivia DVD game and bedtime.
So here I sit waiting to drive to the airport when i am usually in PJ's and dreamland. I am looking forward to time with mom and mike and I know the girls are SO excited to see them in the morning. Guess what we get to do tomorrow .....open more gifts!!! have a great week i will post pictures next time.

Look Who Turned 7!!!!

Happy Birthday Emilee

It is hard to believe that our little girl is 7. Someone told me once that as soon as your children start elementary school, the time flies. I have to agree with that. Where has the time gone?

Emilee's morning began with breakfast in bed and the opening of her gifts which began at 6:30 !!! Her day continued with a Birthday celebration at school and a evening with family and more gifts from Grandma. Emilee's Birthday dinner request was Pat and Oscars for their famous bread sticks. Her favorite birthday gift was a Disney Princess Diary set. The most fun gifts was her High School Musical PJ'S and Webkinz.

We love you Emilee and pray you have a blessed 7th year.

The countdown...

...to the craziness
2 days until Emilee turns 7 and the unwrapping begins
6 days until Christmas and the unwrapping of the gifts
7 days until my mom arrives and more unwrapping of the gifts
11 days until Ashley turns 5 and the unwrapping of the gifts
12 days until I have to find a place to put all the gifts



...to the peace , joy and love that the birth of Jesus brings. This is a gift that we do not have to put away but keep the whole year through.

Merry Christmas and may you all find peace in the craziness of the season you are in.

Christmas Cookies

It is really the only time of the year that we make cookies. The girls were really into it this year. Emilee had to get all the sprinkles in the right spot ...........
And Ashley just sprinkled away to her hearts content. I stayed out of way and let them do their thing. I ate some of them , of course!!
The finished cookies.........Yum Yum Yum

Fun Family Time

Just having a little family fun with the Rudolph the Reindeer antlers and glowing nose. Vote for your favorite reindeer. I think that Daddy Reindeer was feeling alittle crazy that night and Mommy Reindeer looks a bit tired from all the flying practice.

This one is just too cute..Daddy's little girls!!

Christmas Lights

Our new neighborhood is full of beautiful Christmas lights. Without any rain gutters it is hard to hang lights on the house, so we did all we could for this year. The girls' favorite is the snow globe.

10 on Tuesday

1. I love getting Christmas cards in the mail, they are a blessing to me.
2. Yesterday the City of San Diego bravely came and fixed our sewer pipe. After hours of carefully digging around all the utilities under the sidewalk they found the problem.
3. The sewer crew, as I like to call them, are my heroes!!
4. If they would not have fixed the pipe yesterday, we would have had a sewer back up again within just a matter of a few flushes.
5. Thanks to GOD for getting them here just in time.
6. Emilee is reading Christmas books to Ashley, where is the video camera when I need it?
7. Just as I was getting into our church Bible Study, they are taking a break until January.
8. I was encouraged today by a testimony that I heard a friend give this morning.
9. God is amazing in the way He gives us all different stories to tell of His awesome love for us.
10. Time to make dinner, bye for now

A little flashback

This is a recent visit to California Adventure. The girls are perched upon Bear Rocks. The below photos are a flashback of the girls on the same Bear Rocks about 3 years ago..Wow have they changed!!!