Christmas Spirit!

So even though we went out of town for Christmas, we always love decorating our home with X-mas decor!! Owen and Isabela love putting up Christmas lights outside and love our little blow up Santa Claus! I tell them that they need to be good or this Santa Claus is going to blow up and he's NOT going to come back!! How mean huh? But it works! They usually work together in putting up the ornaments on the tree! Jacob is only 7 months and still doesn't have a clue about what Christmas is but he was having fun sitting in his highchair while the rest of us were hanging stuff up!

Here is Jacob sitting outside getting some sun in December!!

Owen and Daddy setting up the candy cane lights in front of the house.

Owen helping decorate the tree.

Isabela helping too!

Here is our blow up Santa Claus that Owen and Isabela were in love with!!

CHRISTMAS FUN

This year for Christmas was also spent at my mom and dad's in California. The whole fanily was there except for Stephanie who is in Salt Lake City serving her mission! We missed her but she sent us a little gift and card back in California for everyone! Teri and her family also went down to California so all the cousins got to hang out together!

Mexican Cruise- Nov 2008

Alright, so right after Thanksgiving Ryan and I went on a Mexican cruise! I would say that we definitely needed it, but I am sure that all parents with a child or children always need a vacation, right? Well we got such a great deal on this cruise, it was very hard to pass up and so we gave in and booked it. We left Owen with Ryan's sister and our other little ones Isabela and jacob stayed with my mom! we left the same weekend after Thanksgiving for 5 days. We stoppped at Ensenada and Cabo San Lucas which by the way is GORGEOUS!! ( even in December) The wheather was perfect!! As most know, the cruise was all you can eat, and you can imagine how much I pigged out, especially on steak!! We got off in Cabo and got in the ocean water for a couple of hours! It's was so nice to be out and not worrying about anything!! We had some mexican food right on the beach and just relaxed while we were there!!

I know, I know I have to do a better job at keeping up with what's going on in our lives. I know one day one of my children are going to ask me about their childhood and I am not going to remember much about it because am so busy trying to make beds, wash laundry, make meals through out the day and make sure our home is somewhat presentable and clean!! I am doing a lot better now. This is the 1st time that I have past my 7 month mark of not being pregnant! YEAH!! And let me tell you... I am feeling great! I am slowly but surely regaining my energy and am starting to feel young like I should! I find myself not dragging out of bed wishing I still had a couple of hours to sleep. Instead I am awake, alert and ready for bathing, cooking, changing diapers 24/7, etc.
Anyway, I wanted to share some pictures of the last few holidays and let you know a little bit of what we did! Thanksgiving was spent at my mom's even though they both were not in town. We ended up spending it with my brothers and sister Nataly and her family. We had so much fun! Nataly was in charge of making Thanksgiving dinner and I helped( kinda) Dain's family was there also! So she made dinner for a total of I think 15 people! Pretty stressful for a beginner huh? Everything was delicous!



This is our family on Thanksgiving Night. It's a little challengng trying to get everyone to look at the camera and smile :)




Isabela was having so much fun climbing the bench. We took her dress off because she got all dirty while eating and was happy in just her tights!!

These were our hosts for the night, Nataly and Dain! Yummy, yummy Turkey!