It's starting to look a lot like Christmas

I love the holidays but now that Gracie is more aware of her environment it has a whole new meaning to me, we had our traditions even before she was born like going to the Tempe Festival of the Arts every year at the beginning of December & after that just get ready to travel to Colorado to spend the holidays with David's family.



But not this year! This year we are staying home which means early presents from Santa.




And of course our very OWN Christmas tree, the first tree we have as a family in our house, Oh my was I excited! I think I was more excited than Grace. We got it today fresh from the store, smells sooo good & it's so beautiful. It was love at first sight. Grace took a nap so I started putting the lights on and when she woke up I turned it on & the only thing she said was the only thing I was waiting for ... "WOW!!!", that just made everything so worth it. She is such a great helper passing the ornaments one by one ...







And speaking of ornaments, David's family has a tradition that I think it's pretty cool, his mom used to give each one of her kids an ornament every year, so he has a full box of ornaments that now decorate beautifully our tree.

This one is from the year I was born!!!


I'm so happy & excited that I literally can't wait until Christmas morning gets here!

Happy Birthday Gracie

ALMOST dosh ...

I'm seriously freeking out!

What I'm thankful for ...

This year has been really rough in some aspects for our family but I'm so glad that together we overcome them with love & hope.

This year I'm so very THANKFUL for:

• My daughter
• My husband
• My mother
• Jr.
• Our family in Mexico
• Our family in Colorado
• Our family in Kansas
• Our health
• Our friends
• Our house
• The food that fill up our fridge & pantry
• The cars that take us from point A to point B everyday
• The clothes that keep us from being cold
• The technology that conect us with our loved ones
• Blizzards @ Dairy Queen

I know I'm forgetting a lot of things but what I wanted to say is that I'm thankful I'm alive to share good and bad moments with the people I love.

& since thursday is also my baby's birthday & I don't want to mixed this 2 holidays together, HAPPY THANKSGIVING everyone!!!

May your tummy be full of delicious food & your heart of the love of the people you most care about!

The official family pictures 2010

We met with my friend Heather to get our family pictures for this year, I think she did a great job!!!

Here are some of my favorites since she took over 1000!!!


{I love this one! (I can't eat her & her lollipop until I die}


{My family}

 






{Awwww, what else can I say?}

 

{She is sooo big!} Everytime I say her birthday is coming up, every single one person would say if she is 3!
 


I died of cuteness & when I came to life I thought of how lucky we are to have my mom with us, most people complain all the time about their in laws including me, but David never do that, he loves my mother as if she was his own mother & that makes my heart very very happy!


That lollipop made it to almost 100% of the pictures but as long as it keep her happy I really don't care :)


{Can you say daddy's girl?}


My handsome & shy blue eyed husband, I love him to pieces!!! Thank you por putting up with my crazyness baby!







We had so much fun & we I can't wait to do it again next year!

Night out

Having my mom living with us is a blessing that allowed us do things that we couldn't do unless we could afford a 24/7 babysitter. Thank you Mommy

Last saturday we went to a mistery play @ the Higley center, David is a member of the board so we got the tickets for free & who can say no when you have a babysitter & free tickets? I know I can't ...


The play name was Who shot the sheriff? and everyone was encouraged to wear western attire, of course I have nothing western in my closet but with the help of my wonderful friends I got some hats & boots for me & David. Thank you wonderful friends.



David's boss & some of his coworkers were there as well.



We had so much fun, mostly when they had to play the robbers and David forgot to steal the money from the bank owner, that was hilarious!




My handsome robber

Dinner was great, company was great, spending time together just the 2 of us, priceless!!!

Happy Fantabolous Halloween Weekend

Halloween is over! ::sad face:: 

It was the best thus far ....  full filled with all kind of fun activities starting with a kids Halloween party ... it's so cute to watch the little ones wearing their customes, getting together with good friends, eating all kinds of fatty food & sweets.











We also went to see an amazing Haunted Pirate Ship, my friend's neighbor builts this ship every year for Halloween & only let go in people he know, we were really lucky that Ana is his friend so we could go inside. Just let the pictures do the talking!

Awesome!!!
















Friday night I went with my friend Sonya to a Halloween party, it was very nice to hang out with her :)

On Saturday we took Gracie to a local church Halloween festival, Gracie was acting up about everything so we were there just a little bit, the only thing she liked about it was the petting zoo.








We went home to take a nap & get ready for the adults party, it was a couples costume party & it was the best party ever!!!

I was a witch & David was Dracula!



We had a great time!!! but oh boy I was tired on sunday, David went to play golf, my mom, Gracie & I went to have lunch and then went home to take a nap to be in a good mood for trick or treating!!!

My super girl woke up in such a good mood, we got her costume on & went to buy more candy to be ready for the trick or treaters ...



It was a great! We went to more houses this year that she is bigger, she is a pro now asking for candy. She kept saying "more, more", "tatiuuu" & "grashias" @ every single house we stopped. David stayed home to handed out candy & we and some friends took the kids around our neighborhood.




It was a busy, sweet & perfect weekend!

pumpkin patch 2010

Our version of the pumpink patch this year was just to go to take some pictures with the pumpkins!!!



They did turn out very cute because pumpkins & toddlers are cute together! Not to much when they throw a 250lbs pumpkin right on your feet {OK i'm exagerating but it was heavy} ... but we still had so much fun!!!


How could we not have fun with this little girl, she is the funniest person I know!








We are so ready for Halloween, in fact today we went to a Halloween party but that my friends is another story!!!

Happy Thursday! {Tomorrow we get to sleep in with daddy & we are having french toast for breakfast, yummy}

The unofficial family photo shoot

Its that time of the year again so today we met with my friend Heather Link to get some new family pictures!

I love the anticipation of what involves the whole thing, getting matching outfits, talking to David everyday before the shoot about how handsome we will look in the pictures, praying that Gracie will be in a good mood & cooperative, anyway it seems easy & simple but is definitely not.

Our appointment was at 10am which meant that we needed to be in the car bathed, fed & happy {mostly happy & smiling because the photos don't look good when you are in a bad mood or crying over the 2 balloons you just saw inside the car & you can't have just yet because you can pooped them & then you will be not just mad but sad & scared at the same time}by 9:30am, which we miraculously achieved!

The weather couldn't have been better, 75 degrees, clear & sunny day! Just perfect!

The star of the shoot was obviously my adorable, beautiful, silly, crazy, fearless, energetic, fabolous, full of live almost 2 year old daugther.

She was very cooperative for the most part except for when we try to take away a HUGE swirl lollipop that we used as a prop, so I'm pretty sure that sucker is included in 90% of her pictures.

I still haven't seen any of the "official" pictures but I took some with my camera & they are very cute if I can say so myself.







{I ALWAYS wanted to have a picture jumping like a crazy woman, now I can take that of my list of the things I want to do before 35}


{My husband has to go to the quiropractor after this but he is such a good sport & did what he was asked to like "honey, I know your back is killing you but can you please jump out of that wall for me so we can have matching pictures jumping like fools?"}


{This is the famous HUGE sucker, just in case you didn't noticed}



{I'm not good at posing, please don't judge me}








I can't wait to see what Heather is working on right now {well I don't think right now exactly because it's 3:30am & she must be sleeping unless she is like me & can't sleep at night but that's not what I was talking about) until then I will try to get some sleep.

Happy dreams!