our first gingerbread house

believe it or not, we've never made a gingerbread house before. so heres our first attempt... and yes I had to get the pre-built one. not too bad for first timers.

Merry Christmas 2010!

hope you all had a wonderful Christmas day! our's was great! but still trying to clean up all these toys!!! where oh where is it all gonna go?

jenalyn's Christmas program

jenalyn had a cute little Christmas program at preschool and she did great. we were afraid that she would be too overwhelmed with the audience and all - but she did awesome and sang all the songs happily. heres some pics of my little super star.

a few texas pics...

ok so I didnt take as many pics in texas as I thought I did - but I will share what I did take:

BABIES! you know which one is mine... that cute little girl is baby liliana! my kiddies very first cousin! and my very first niece! aint she the cutest thing? and those eyes...






met up with a couple of mommy friends at the mall for a fun playdate!





visiting the kiddies' great-grandma! these are all her great-grandkids!
ok and one more of baby liliana - I just adore her eyes!!!

where did November go?

and funny thing, its almost half-way through December...

ok so november was such a wonderful blurr. for those that dont know I took a "mommy vacation" to NYC for the first time ever, to hang out with a bunch of wonderful mommies - for a fun break. it was so last minute for me, but I loved every second of it and I thank my loving husband who encouraged (insisted) that I take this well-needed break. thank you my dear!

then a week later I was off to texas to visit my family for thanksgiving. (I'll post all the little details on another post)

we've been back for a couple of weeks now, but it seems like I cant get back into the groove of things. its already mid-way to Christmas and we have a bare tree hanging out in our living room, no advent calendar nor wreath and gifts - well they should be "on the way". so, as you can see I let november slip by and sadly december is turning out to be the same... but Im determined to get back on the ball and into the spirit of Christmas - just as soon as I pour that 3pm cup of coffee!!

just to compare

ok last halloween post, I promise...

how is it that my 7 month old can wear the same costume as his big brother wore last year when he was 1.5 years old???

oh and did I tell ya, they now wear the same size diapers...short story version: eli had the stomach bug last week and we we're going through pull-ups like crazy, so we put him in baby's diapers and viola - they fit! size 3s!
but we just moved joshua luke to size 4 diapers and eli is in size 4 pull-ups... I just hope they can share the same size clothes soon - that would be great!

trick-or-treating 2010

so we got out the tail-end of trick-or-treating. we usually hit up the mall and we got there with 30 min. to spare before they closed (thanks to a much-needed nap by everyone). by the time we got there, most store we're out of candy - considering they do start at 11am - but that was ok, as long as we found a lollipop we were a-okay! we ran into our cousins and did a quick meet-up with a mommy friend. jenalyn was on a quest to find m&ms and lollipops but eli didnt want any of it - he didnt even want to wear his costume after 5 min. (and I searched the world for it too!) and thank you to my friend kristi and her mom for making jenalyn's bonnet and giving eli his mcqueen sweatshirt - it worked perfectly!
ok enough of my explaination of the day, b/c I know all you want to do is see the kiddies...here are my little bo peep, my lightening mcqueen and my little darth vadar!







I tried to match with my little bo peep - I tried, right?