Merry Christmas!

From my family to yours...

The family Christmas card :)

We attempted a family photo...and we were successful! Thanks to my father in law for taking the photo, and luckily I was able to install my wonderful photoshop on my husband's computer. So if it looks wonky at all, blame it on my dumb computer that decided to die right during Christmas time!!!

Still no word on the house, every day we wake up and say "today would be a great day to buy a house!" But its not in our hands... Whatever the case, we know this will be the last Christmas we spend in our little duplex. I really do love living here, so I know God has something greater for us out there.

Our family of 5...last year there were just 4 of us :)

wk 25/52

This is a fun one, don't you think?! I didn't take this photo, and I don't remember which one of my 11 other family members who were on our Disney trip did...but whoever did, thank you for giving me a wonderful memory of Liliana's first trip to Disneyland!

what a let down...

...to come home to this boring ole' house after spending two awesome days in Disneyland!! We had so much fun!! I love Disneyland, as soon as I walk into the park I feel 5 years old again.

So after such a wonderful but very exhausting time, we're relaxing a lot around here. I mean, the most exciting thing to happen this morning was when Lily found a red crayon...


A rare moment between these two...

Happy December!!!

Just a note to say I'll be away from my computer and phone for the rest of the week. I'm heading south with my fam' to (....drum roll please....) none other than The Happiest Place On Earth!!! All emails and calls will be returned to when I get back. Until then...don't be jealous, I'll only ride on Space Mountain...oh...a couple times :)



psst...its a snowman! courtesy of Abby! I guess playdough is the closest thing to snow we're ever gonna get around here :)

wk 24/52

I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving! Mine was full of family (and food of course!) Not seeing my Grandma at the table was very heart breaking, but it was Liliana's first Thanksgiving. Life comes and life goes, it was an important day.

So I had already chosen my photo for this week, an easy camera phone picture. But yesterday my sister took some photos of Lily and I and I thought it would be great to use one of those!

So here's Liliana (and me!) on her first Thanksgiving. She looks so chubby in this photo. Maybe it was the 2 rolls she ate or all the mashed potatoes :)

wk 23/52

In case you're wondering...I have intentionally skipped week 22. With my Grandma passing, I really want to take a photo that shows how I was feeling during that week. I haven't the energy to do it now. As you will see in the next two self pics...not much effort has gone into them, with both being shot from my camera phone :) Quite a bit has been happening in my house, with the past few weeks being some of the most busy and emotional weeks of the year. So later this week, I will try to take a photo that I should have taken during week 22...a week I will remember forever.

This photo should have been posted on Friday. I didn't cheat...it was taken last week! I included my other "baby" who deserves to be in a lot more pictures than I take. He's out of the country for a couple weeks and I'm holding down the fort! This was us in the car when the kids and I dropped him off at the airport :(

Just for some info, I just ran a quick black & white action with no tweaks on this photo from my camera phone.



ps. I'm going to do my best to getting back to posting Project 52 every Friday! Well...I hope so. LOL.